Rivian creates another spinoff company called Mind Robotics
Rivian launched a second spinoff company this year, an industrial AI and robotics venture called Mind Robotics. According to the company’s third-quarter shareholder letter issued Tuesday, the new efforts will focus on “leveraging industrial AI to reimagine how businesses operate in the physical world and leverage Rivian’s operational data as the foundation for the robotics […]
Sequoia names Alfred Lin and Pat Grady new co-stewards following Roelof Botha’s resignation
Just over three years after becoming Sequoia Capital’s top leader, Roelof Botha is stepping down from his senior management role at the storied venture capital firm. The company announced Tuesday that partners Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will replace him as co-stewards. Lin joined the storied company in 2010 and has led major investments in […]
Sora is now available on Android in the US, Canada, and other regions
Sora, OpenAI’s AI video generator, is now officially available for Android users in the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Sora was first released as an iOS app in September and quickly rose to the top of the App Store charts, racking up more than 1 million downloads in one week. […]
Norway’s wealth fund vote marks latest blow to Musk’s $1 trillion pay package
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has voted against Tesla’s proposal to give CEO Elon Musk a payout worth $1 trillion. The fund, managed by Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), holds a 1.14% stake in Tesla worth about $11.7 billion, according to an interim report in June. “While we appreciate the significant value created under Mr. Musk’s […]
A cybercrime merger like no other – Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$ and ShinyHunters team up
The initial group, which combined three prominent cybercriminal groups: Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$, and ShinyHunters, created 16 Telegram channels since August 8, 2025. “Since its debut, the group’s Telegram channel has been deleted and recreated at least 16 times, with various iterations of its original name. This repeating cycle reflects platform moderation and the operator’s determination […]
Report finds mobile phone location data of EU officials being sold
Journalists in Europe have found it “easy” to spy on senior European Union officials using commercially obtained location histories sold by data brokers, despite the continent having some of the strongest data protection laws in the world. Netzpolitik reports that EU officials are “concerned” about the trade in mobile phone location data of citizens and […]
Anthropic plans $70 billion in revenue by 2028: Report
Anthropic expects to generate up to $70 billion in revenue and $17 billion in cash flow in 2028, the Information reported. The growth forecast is being driven by rapid adoption of Anthropic’s business products, a person familiar with the company’s finances said. Reuters reported last month that Anthropic’s annual sales are expected to more than […]
Tesla’s Master Plan 4 still lacks details ahead of Musk’s $1 billion compensation vote
More than two months ago, Tesla announced its fourth “Master Plan.” This is a thin post about how the company wants to spread “sustainable wealth” through its future products. Unfortunately, the details are sparse, but that hasn’t stopped Tesla from making it the centerpiece of its bid to convince shareholders to hand CEO Elon Musk […]
‘As if a tremor was transmitted from the brain to the body’: Neuroscientists who learned how to control memory in rodents
Can bad memories be changed? In this excerpt from How to Change Your Memory (Princeton University Press, 2025), author and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez describes the events that led him and his colleagues to discover that they could artificially control memory by accessing rodent brains directly. Emotions like anxiety are difficult to understand because they are […]
The world’s largest spider web was discovered in the “Sulfur Cave” where 111,000 spiders live in total darkness
Researchers have discovered more than 111,000 spiders living in what is believed to be the world’s largest spider web, deep inside a pitch-black cave on the Albanian-Greece border. The study, published October 17 in the journal Subterranean Biology, said the “unusual” colony consisted of a giant nest located in a permanently dark zone of the […]