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Meta is preparing to cut one in five jobs. This is why the rest of Silicon Valley is watching closely
The Facebook owner could axe more than 15,000 staff as it redirects billions toward AI. It won't be the last company to make this trade-off, but history suggests the redundancies may not be permanent.
One Battle After Another Is the Favourite. Sinners Is the Story
The 2026 Academy Awards ceremony arrives on Sunday with the clearest Best Picture frontrunner in years. But Ryan Coogler's record-breaking film is making the race far more interesting than the odds suggest
You can now bet on whether Bitcoin will go up or down in the next five minutes. The market has opinions
Polymarket's micro-timeframe crypto contracts turn price speculation into something closer to a live arcade game. The numbers are small. The implications are not
The internet decided that Google's quantum chip proves we live in a multiverse, that NASA is hiding a crisis in cosmo...
The real story, a confirmed 5 sigma discrepancy in the universe's expansion rate, is genuinely significant. It does not require any of the embellishments
Nvidia's next AI supercomputer has 1.3 million parts, weighs two tons and costs up to $4 million. It may also be the...
Vera Rubin, the company's new rack-scale system, delivers ten times more performance per watt than its predecessor. With over 80 suppliers across 20 countries, getting it built is almost as impressive as what it can do.
Perplexity's new AI agent completed three complex research tasks in the time it takes to make a coffee. Here's exactl...
Perplexity Computer orchestrates 20 AI models at once to handle research, write emails and build interactive dashboards without asking follow-up questions. It costs $200 a month
Musk's $100bn lawsuit and Meta's AI crisis
A pre-trial hearing in Oakland this week set the stage for the most consequential courtroom fight in tech history. Elsewhere, xAI is rebuilding from scratch, Meta may be licensing a rival's model, and the IPO window keeps getting smaller
Prediction markets slash Bitcoin $80,000 odds as cryptocurrency drops 10% in a day
Polymarket contract probability fell 16.5 points to 21% as Bitcoin slid to $65,432, leaving it roughly $14,500 below the target
What it means: Nvidia bets on Mira Murati's comeback with a gigawatt chip deal worth tens of billions
The partnership cements Thinking Machines Lab as a frontier AI player, but it also adds another link to the chain of circular financing that critics say is propping up the entire industry
Leading bank names 10 tech stocks built to weather geopolitical turbulence and AI anxiety
Wedbush is doubling down on cybersecurity and defence-adjacent names as Iran tensions and fears over AI commoditisation rattle the sector
Sundar Pichai's new pay deal could reach almost $700m. Google's founders, meanwhile, are buying mansions in Miami.
Alphabet has structured a three-year compensation package for its CEO that ties most of his earnings to performance. Larry Page and Sergey Brin have other financial priorities.
Apple's $599 MacBook puts the entire laptop market on notice
For the first time, Apple has a laptop cheap enough to compete with Chromebooks and entry-level Windows machines.
The Oscars: Smart money has already picked the Best Picture winner. It's not even close
Prediction markets have placed a 75% probability on Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" taking the top Oscar. This is why you should listen.
AI is not a revolution. It's the next step in a process that began in the 1990s
Lloyd Blankfein sees the technology as useful, limited, and certain to produce losers alongside winners. The former Goldman Sachs chief executive also warns on private credit, late-cycle complacency, and the risks building in retirement portfolios.
Week in review: Robinhood launches publicly traded fund tracking private technology companies
The investment platform says customer demand drove the creation of a product offering retail investors exposure to late-stage growth companies
Week in review: OpenAI narrows its ambitions as competition with Anthropic intensifies
The company is pulling back from social commerce and adtech after concluding the projects were harder to execute than anticipated
Week in review: Anthropic challenges US government's decision to designate it a defence supply chain risk
The AI company faces a court battle that could complicate its path to an initial public offering
Perplexity's free AI agent can reportedly do in 11 minutes what a $27,000 terminal does all year
The company has launched a browser-based tool that strings together 19 AI models to research, code, and execute tasks autonomously. The catch: most of those claims still need independent verification
The AI panic gripping the internet is built on vibes, not evidence
According to research by Bloomberg, the evidence for this sweeping disruption is almost entirely absent
Africa sits on $30 trillion in mineral wealth. The race to control it has already begun
Critical minerals such as copper and cobalt will be instrumental in the AI-driven revolution now unfolding. Here's what may unfold in the next decade