The Trump administration announced a new annual levy of one hundred thousand dollars on H-1B visas last Friday. This fee applies to companies that hire skilled foreign workers through the program, which allows eighty-five thousand people to enter the United…
An Indian court has dismissed an attempt by Elon Musk’s X to challenge the Indian government’s content takedown orders. The court ruled that the social media platform, as a foreign company, does not have a constitutional right to free speech…
For decades, Silicon Valley has celebrated the college dropout. Founders like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg left school early to build companies and became billionaires. That ethos was later reinforced by initiatives like the Thiel Fellowship, which pays…
Medical device funding is reaching levels not seen since 2021, with investors pouring billions into diagnostics and imaging companies. While innovation has raced ahead, a fundamental problem remains unchanged. Critical medical hardware like MRI machines still costs millions of dollars…
YouTube will finally allow you to hide the pop-up recommendations that appear at the end of videos. The company announced this new feature on Wednesday. Now, when an end screen appears, you can tap a new “Hide” button in the…
Despite the Trump administration’s tendency to label the energy transition a “green new scam,” it is actively pursuing a significant stake in what is projected to be the largest lithium mine in the Western Hemisphere. In exchange for renegotiating the…
Zoox has requested an exemption from federal regulators that would permit the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company to deploy its custom-built robotaxis for commercial use. These unique vehicles are designed without traditional controls like pedals or a steering wheel. A Zoox…
A new app that records your phone calls and pays you for the audio, which it then sells to AI companies, has surprisingly become the number two app in the social networking section of Apple’s U.S. App Store. The app,…
On Wednesday, the enterprise AI model-maker Cohere announced it raised an additional one hundred million dollars. This funding increases the company’s valuation to seven billion dollars and serves as an extension to a round announced in August. The August round…
A couple of months ago, the founders behind the YC-backed social app Candle were in what they called “pivot hell.” They cycled through more than a dozen ideas after joining Y Combinator’s Fall 2024 batch, all while the clock on…
