Blue Origin successfully reuses New Glenn rocket for the first time
Blue Origin has successfully reused one of its New Glenn rockets for the first time in history, a major milestone for heavy launch systems as Jeff Bezos’ space company aims to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. However, the overall success of the mission may be questionable. About two hours after liftoff, Blue Origin revealed that […]
Relations between Anthropic and the Trump administration appear to be thawing.
Despite being recently designated as a supply chain risk by the Department of Defense, Anthropic is still in talks with Trump administration officials. There have long been signs of a rift, or a sense that not all parts of the administration want to cut ties with Anthropic, with reports that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and […]
The App Store is booming again, and AI may be the reason
Everyone said AI would kill apps. Instead, new app releases are proliferating. Global app releases in the first quarter of 2026 grew 60% year over year on both Apple’s App Store and Google Play, according to new analysis from market intelligence provider Appfigures. Looking at the iOS App Store alone, the percentage was even higher […]
Stripe and Airwallex came close enough to an acquisition, but now they’re chasing each other
Jack Zhang was 34 years old and had been running a startup for three and a half years when he sat across from one of Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors. Sequoia’s Michael Moritz invited him to his home (which was several stories high and had a direct view of the Golden Gate Bridge, Zhang recalls) […]
Sam Altman’s Project World aims to expand his human verification empire. First stop is Tinder.
At a trendy venue near the San Francisco Pier, Sam Altman’s testing project World celebrated its next evolution and rapid expansion of its ambitions. And it starts with Tinder. Tools for Humanity (TFH), which powers the World project, on Friday announced plans to integrate its verification technology into dating apps, event and concert ticketing systems, […]
Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles withdraw from OpenAI, the company continues to publish ‘side quests’
OpenAI is losing two of its most ambitious moonshot architects. Kevin Weil, who led the company’s scientific research initiatives, and Bill Peebles, a researcher behind the AI video tool Sora, both announced their retirements on Friday. The exit comes as OpenAI consolidates around enterprise AI and its upcoming “super apps.” The exit follows OpenAI’s decision […]
Source: Cursor in talks to raise more than $2 billion at $50 billion valuation as company grows rapidly
AI coding startup Cursor is close to raising new funding, with the four-year-old company on track to raise at least $2 billion in new capital, according to four people familiar with the matter. Returning investors Thrive and Andreessen Horowitz are expected to lead the financing at a valuation of $50 billion ahead of the new […]
Developer productivity is lower than expected due to “Tokenmaxxing”
There is an old idea in management that “what is important is what you measure.” And you usually get more results for whatever you’re measuring. Software engineers have been discussing productivity metrics for decades, starting with the line of code. But as a new generation of AI coding agents delivers more code than ever before, […]
Zoom partners with World to authenticate people in meetings
Meetings platform Zoom has announced a partnership with Sam Altman’s human ID verification company World to ensure that people attending meetings are actually humans and not AI-generated impostors. This threat is real and growing rapidly. The most dramatic example occurred in early 2024, when engineering company Arup suffered a $25 million loss after an employee […]
Gigs turns your concert history into a personal live music archive
People always have their phones at the ready to record special moments at concerts, but they rarely revisit those videos. Gigs, a new concert tracking app released this week, hopes to change that. The iOS app helps live music fans turn years of concert, ticket, photo and video memories into a personal archive with the […]