Bluesky released its first transparency report this week. The report documents actions taken by its Trust and Safety team and covers initiatives like age-assurance compliance, monitoring of influence operations, and automated labeling. The social media startup, a rival to platforms…
Earlier this month, Anthropic launched Cowork, a new agentic tool designed to take the benefits of its AI coding assistant Claude Code and transform it into a more general-use tool that non-coders could benefit from. Now, Anthropic has launched a…
The Polish government has reported that Russian government hackers breached parts of the country’s energy grid infrastructure, exploiting poor security measures. On Friday, Poland’s Computer Emergency Response Team, which operates under the Ministry of Digital Affairs, released a technical report…
Billionaire tech mogul Reid Hoffman is urging his fellow tech leaders in Silicon Valley to not only condemn the killings of two American citizens at the hands of Border Patrol agents, but to stop pacifying President Trump. In posts and…
Hustle culture may be the norm at tech companies in the AI era, but the work will stop tomorrow at the publishing platform Medium. Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine is giving the company’s employees permission to take the day off to…
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Ethos Technologies, a San Francisco-based provider of software for selling life insurance, debuted on the Nasdaq on Thursday. As one of the year’s first major tech IPOs, the insurtech platform is being closely watched as a bellwether for the 2026…
OpenAI, a company already valued at $500 billion, has made it known that it is on the hunt for another $100 billion in investment. Such a funding round could lead the company’s valuation to shoot up to a titanic $830…
Reports indicate that early-stage discussions are underway regarding a potential merger involving three of Elon Musk’s companies: SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla. While talks are preliminary, the outcome could see at least one company folded into SpaceX. Two specific scenarios are…
Apple exceeded expectations when it reported its quarterly earnings on Thursday. The company revealed $143.8 billion in revenue, a 16 percent increase year-over-year. During the earnings call, as analysts asked CEO Tim Cook mostly favorable questions, one analyst from Morgan…
