Masha Bucher, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and founder of Day One Ventures, addressed news reports this week regarding her close business and personal relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Bucher’s name, primarily under her maiden name Masha Drokova,…
Boston Dynamics, the Massachusetts-based robotics company famous for its four-legged and humanoid robots, is undergoing a leadership transition. Robert Playter announced in an internal memo on Tuesday that he will step down as chief executive. Amanda McMaster, the company’s chief…
Monday night brought news of another departure from Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company. Yuhuai (Tony) Wu, a co-founder of xAI, announced he was leaving. “It’s time for my next chapter,” Wu wrote in a late-night post on X. He added,…
Google provided U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a trove of personal data about a British student and journalist, Amandla Thomas-Johnson, in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge. According to a report, the company…
Facebook announced new AI-powered features on Tuesday designed to let users express themselves in more playful ways across the platform. The updates include animated profile pictures, photo-restyling tools for Stories and Memories, and the ability to add animated backgrounds to…
There has been significant pushback on electronic door handles lately. Multiple carmakers, especially Tesla, have been accused of making manual door releases too difficult to find and access during an emergency. Rivian is one company that reportedly decided to change…
For much of his career, Mohamed Mohamed worked at institutions like BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey. He observed that these firms treated real estate as a computational problem. They utilized proprietary data pipelines, internal valuation models, simulation tools, and early…
Singapore’s government has identified a known Chinese cyber-espionage group, UNC3886, as responsible for targeting four of the country’s major telecommunications companies in a months-long campaign. This marks the first official confirmation that hackers specifically went after Singapore’s telecom infrastructure, impacting…
The counterfeit goods crisis presents a dual challenge. Luxury brands lose over $30 billion annually to fakes, while shoppers in the booming $210 billion second-hand market lack a reliable way to verify the authenticity of their purchases. Veritas aims to…
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration’s EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, is preparing to repeal the 2009 “endangerment finding.” That finding established that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health and welfare. The repeal…
