In one of the largest deals in tech history, Marvell buys Lumentum for $115B
Marvell’s planned purchase of Lumentum is one of the biggest acquisitions in tech history. And they both have the same strategic investor: Nvidia.
The New York Times and other publications sue Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls
The New York Times and a group of other publications have filed lawsuits against the company that makes the Brave web browser over alleged unlawful scraping to train AI and also letting users bypass their paywalls, as reported by Reuters. According to a complaint filed by the companies that run New York Daily News, the … Read more
Readwise takes on Amazon’s Kindle and Goodreads with its new app for book lovers
Readwise Books combines an ebook store, reading tracker, detailed reading stats, and AI features in a bid to challenge Amazon’s ecosystem.
Nvidia and Nike Lead Biggest Wave Yet of Tokenized Stock Objections
Nvidia, Costco, Nike and nine other companies objected to trading of their shares on the planned OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue, bringing the total to 50.
EU entity suspected of losing $106 million from crypto exchange accounts, ZachXBT says
The unidentified attacker moved funds through ether, instant exchanges and Monero, but the victim and affected exchanges remain unknown.
Prepare web content for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases with Crawl4AI
When you build Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications, answer quality depends on the data that you ingest. Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases is the fully managed RAG capability of Amazon Bedrock. With Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, you connect your data sources, and Amazon Bedrock manages ingestion, storage, indexing, and retrieval for you. You don’t provision … Read more
Elon Musk Mocks Sam Altman Over Claim Home PCs Are Wasting RAM
The OpenAI CEO said it’s “quite terrible” for DRAM to sit largely idle in personal computers while AI data centers face a supply crunch.
Apple’s ‘Ultra’ smart home robot might have to wait until 2028
Apple has reportedly delayed the launch of its rumored smart home robot until next year at the earliest or possibly even 2028, according to The Information. It says the robot’s hardware “has been finished for around two years,” but that the software isn’t ready. The device’s software team has reportedly pushed to delay the launch … Read more
Build efficient agents with knowledge distillation on Amazon SageMaker AI
You built a shopping assistant on a frontier model, and it works. A shopper asks for “a black waist bag under twenty dollars from a shop with at least 4.5 stars,” and the agent searches the catalog, inspects candidates, checks the constraints, and commits to a recommendation. But what does that interaction actually cost? An … Read more
Agentic engineering intelligence with Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
When a qualified aerospace component goes obsolete or hits a long lead time, an engineer spends days cross-referencing specifications across vendor datasheets, interface control documents (ICDs), and qualification records before documenting a substitution justification for review. An incorrect substitution on a flight-critical component can cause mission failure, yet the evidence trail behind each decision is … Read more
How Circle K accelerated DevOps incident triage to under 15 minutes with Amazon Bedrock
This post was co-written with Marek Klatowicz, Cloud DevOps Engineer at Circle K. Many DevOps teams know the incident triage pattern: An alert fires, and before anyone can fix the problem, an engineer spends 45–60 minutes figuring out what happened. They pull logs, check service health, and correlate symptoms across a handful of tools. All … Read more
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Squarespace is laying off around 300 employees
The website-building platform Squarespace is laying off 19 percent of its employees as it works to “simplify” its operations, Squarespace spokesperson Jeff Seedman says in a statement to The Verge. The job cuts will affect around 300 of Squarespace’s 1,800 employees. “The changes are intended to simplify how we operate, sharpen our priorities and enable … Read more
Brazil’s Largest Exchange Mercado Bitcoin Halts Withdrawals After $40 Million Hack
Brazil’s largest crypto exchange paused deposits and withdrawals after a security incident. Tether froze more than 4.5 million USDT tied to the attack.
SpaceX reportedly wants to buy Boost Mobile to compete with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
SpaceX has been looking for new ways to use its Starlink network, and a tie-up with cellular operator Boost Mobile could give it the terrestrial access it needs.
NYSE taps Wall Street giant Broadridge to bring shareholder voting to tokenized stocks
A key provider of shareholder voting and corporate services on Wall Street, Broadridge will help bring investor rights onchain for the exchange’s upcoming venue.
42AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can ‘predict human behavior’
Here’s a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation?
Bitmine Buys More Ethereum as Tom Lee Calls the Binance Hack Bullish
The chairman laid out six reasons the market’s “muted” 4% ETH drop after the record Binance theft shows crypto is “increasingly resilient,” as the firm’s stash neared its 5% supply goal.
Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to ‘unsustainably high’ costs
Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having “the fastest growth of a product that I’ve ever seen in my life.”
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Why Peacock is making a huge bet on YouTube
Today, I’m talking with Matt Strauss, who is now chairman of the NBCUniversal Media Group. This is Matt’s second time joining me on the show, and there’s been a whole lot of organizational and structural change at NBCU since the last time he and I spoke just two years ago — pure Decoder bait. First, … Read more
Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin halts withdrawals after $40 million drained across 10 chains
The Brazilian exchange paused deposits and withdrawals after wallets on at least 10 chains were emptied, days after the $6.3 billion Binance hack.
Nvidia, Costco and Nike join pushback against OKX–ICE tokenized stock plans
Nearly 70% of the companies initially picked for trading have opted out, while 19 firms including Apple, Tesla and Amazon have no disclosed objection as the 30-day response window nears its end.
Media Titan Omri Hurwitz: Humans, Not Bots, Run the News
When Omri Hurwitz first appeared on The Spiro Circle as one of its earliest guests, he made a remark about AI and the news that James Spiro later used as a headline. Returning for episode 107, the CEO of Omri Hurwitz Media was asked what had changed. His answer was steady: “AI still does not … Read more
Anthropic swings to third quarter operating loss as compute costs surge ahead of IPO
The Claude developer generated $17 billion in quarterly revenue, but higher computing costs resulted in a $567 million operating loss.
Vivo’s first Pro Max phone proves its Ultra is still in a league of its own
The X500 Pro Max is the first Vivo flagship to sit between its Pro and Ultra tiers. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge When I declared this spring that Vivo’s X300 Ultra had the best cameras in any phone, two things made it stand out in my mind: its excellent main camera with a … Read more