Stripe’s valuation soars 74% to $159 billion

Another year, another Stripe tender offer where investors buy shares from employees that values the company at an enormous step up. On Tuesday, Stripe announced that this latest secondary transaction…

‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets | AI (artificial intelligence)

1. AI agents remove all ‘friction’ in the economy The scenario begins with AI agents undergoing a “jump in capability”. This has already happened. Citrini refers to Anthropic’s Claude Code…

Blizzard finally revealed its long-rumored Overwatch mobile game

Blizzard is finally bringing Overwatch to mobile devices, but not exactly in the way you think. The company isn’t making a port of the mainline game. Rather, it just announced…

We’re putting more stuff into space than ever. Here’s what’s up there.

Earth’s a medium-size rock with some water on top, enveloped by gases that keep everything that lives here alive. Just at the edge of that envelope begins a thin but…

‘High Potential’ Release Schedule: When Is Season 2, Episode 13 Coming?

There’s no new episode of High Potential this week, but you can catch Kaitlin Olson’s fashionable crime-solver, Morgan Gillory, in the hit ABC series next week. High Potential centers on…

ADT just bought the company that invented Wi-Fi motion sensing

ADT, the 150-year-old company best known for home security, has acquired Origin Wireless in a $170 million deal to expand the capabilities of its security and smart home offerings. Origin…

Meta could end up owning 10% of AMD in new chip deal

Su said the warrant structure would help “make sure that we are always a clear seat at the table when [Meta] are thinking about what they need next.” Meta’s chief…

Tide’s Evo Tiles Are a Fresh, Overengineered Take on the Tide Pod

Laundry is a $100 billion business. It can also be a real time suck, what with all the washing, drying, and folding. Detergent company Tide has found great success with…

Meta strikes up to $100B AMD chip deal as it chases ‘personal superintelligence’

Meta plans to purchase potentially up to $100 billion worth of AMD chips, enough to drive roughly six gigawatts of data center power demand, the companies announced Tuesday. As part…

Reddit fined £14.5m in UK over use of under-13s’ data | Reddit

The UK information regulator has fined the social news service Reddit £14.5m for using the data of children under the age of 13 unlawfully and potentially exposing them to inappropriate…