Apple Is Preparing to Release a Wave of New Products. Here’s What to Expect.
Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, is taking the stage at the company’s annual iPhone event this week.
The Download: a biological de-aging contest and why LLMs don’t reason
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth —Jessica Hamzelou This week, I officially signed up for an unusual competition. One that rewards competitors for…
Baby Boomers Refuse to Retire: ‘If I Stop Moving, I Might Die’ — Here’s Why That’s a Problem
Economists predicted a wave of retirements that never came. Now companies are staring down a succession crisis they didn’t plan for.
For the First Time in Decades, Not Having a College Degree Beats Having a Degree in the Job Market
Blame the change on AI eating entry-level white-collar work and a skilled trades shortage that few saw coming.
Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal
Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.
Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government
Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now, the plant’s owner is getting a $1.9B loan from the U.S. Energy Department.
Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape
Google is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.
Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business
The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe and PSG Equity.
A hacker stole $340M in a crypto heist, then returned most of it
The latest heist is one of the largest thefts of cryptocurrency to date.
Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launch
Bluecore Energy announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $50 million seed round — just months after raising a $10 million pre-seed and coming out of stealth.
He Started As a Barista When He Was 16 — Now He’s an Owner: ‘Proof of What’s Possible’
Elliott Disner spent years helping run Beyond Juicery + Eatery from the corporate side. Now he owns one, and says the job feels completely different.