In a one-two punch of centibillion-dollar offers, the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery is over. David Ellison-owned Paramount will acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. Netflix has lost.
Jack Dorsey has long been an open admirer of Elon Musk. Now, it seems, he may have been taking notes.
Buterin has outlined a phased roadmap to replace four vulnerable components of Ethereum’s cryptographic architecture.
Less than 24 hours before the deadline in an ultimatum issued by the Pentagon, Anthropic has refused the Department of Defense’s demands for unrestricted access to its AI. It’s the culmination of a dramatic exchange of public statements, social media posts, and behind-the-scenes negotiations, coming down to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s desire to renegotiate all … Read more
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday that he “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands to give the military unrestricted access to its AI systems.
Netflix has dropped its $83 billion deal to acquire the Warner Bros. studio, HBO, and its streaming service HBO Max. In an announcement on Thursday, co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters say the streamer is “declining to match” the new bid made by Paramount: The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder value with a … Read more
Starknet revealed a Bitcoin-based asset aimed at enabling people to better maintain their privacy on the Ethereum layer-2 scaling network.
Microsoft is previewing a new AI system, Copilot Tasks, that it says is designed to take care of busywork for you in the background, the company announced on Thursday. The feature takes the load off your device using its own cloud-based computer and browser, allowing it to handle a variety of jobs ranging from scheduling … Read more
Bloomberg reported earlier this month that 10% of Block’s workforce could be cut during annual performance reviews as part of a broader overhaul.
I accepted a challenge: build a real-time YOLOv8 video pipeline using vanilla ONNX Runtime. No bloated frameworks. No Python bottlenecks. Just raw C++ grit. Let’s be honest: Python is the undisputed king of the research lab. But if you’re trying to stream live H.264 video through a neural network at scale on edge hardware? Python’s … Read more
Block said the restructuring will cost up to $500 million and be largely completed by mid-2026, as investors embraced the move.
PayPal may not be in talks to be acquired, sources have told Semafor, after a previous news report that Stripe was sniffing around.
Bitcoin bulls are chasing after $70,000 but cautious signals from the futures and derivatives market could explain why success remains elusive.
Jack Dorsey’s Block, the financial tech company that runs Square and the Cash app, is cutting its workforce by “nearly half” and axing more than 4,000 jobs. The company will shrink from more than 10,000 people to less than 6,000, Dorsey says in a post on X. And the reason why? AI. “We’re not making … Read more
Image: WindowsLatest Lenovo’s next gaming laptop could be a shapeshifting foldable called the Legion Go Fold, which can be used as a laptop or a handheld gaming PC with two different display sizes, as WindowsLatest reports. Leaked images of the device show it attached to both a keyboard and controllers, with a hinge in the … Read more
Lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday protecting crypto software developers from criminal prosecution. Does that mean the crypto market structure bill is falling by the wayside?
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency proposed rules that would govern stablecoins, including apparent limits on rewards that may affect Coinbase.
Magnet rings have changed my life. I grip and mount and satisfyingly snap awesome accessories on and off my phone all day. Even Samsung sells neat ones like these folding magnetic mirrors. But unlike Apple and Google, Samsung refuses to put the magnets inside the phone. Why? I asked Samsung’s Won-Joon Choi, the executive in … Read more
The bitcoin miner inked a deal with investment firm Starwood to convert and expand select facilities to serve data center needs for AI.
San Francisco, CA, February 26th, 2026/Chainwire/SolanaCDN delivers 3.8x faster shred propagation through a global mesh of 35,000+ nodes, provided as a public good for the Solana network Pipe Network today announced the launch of SolanaCDN, a free, open-source Solana validator client with an integrated CDN acceleration layer. Built as a fork of Anza’s Agave, SolanaCDN … Read more
Republican and Democrat senators alike pushed back on imprisoned FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s support of the Clarity Act crypto bill.
The industry-supported Promoting Innovation in Blockchain Development Act could be a solution by Congress to push back against criminalizing writing code.
What does it mean to be human when you are living under a techno-controlled state system? When your thoughts are being read, the last of your freedoms is taken away from you. When you are constantly being monitored, potentially by people you used to know as people. When you are kept awake by voices, not … Read more
The smartphone industry could experience a record-breaking decline in 2026 as a result of the RAM shortage stemming from memory-hungry AI giants. That’s according to the latest report from the International Data Corporation (IDC), which forecasts smartphone shipments to plummet 12.9 percent this year, marking its “lowest annual shipment volume in more than a decade.” … Read more
Decentralized lending has become one of the foundational pillars of modern DeFi. Protocols like Aave demonstrated that users want permissionless borrowing and yield generation without relying on traditional intermediaries. However, high network fees and fragmented liquidity across chains continue to limit adoption. QIELend aims to solve this by delivering a familiar, capital-efficient lending experience — … Read more