Zoë Schiffer: Deviants and freaks, the new name of our podcast. And this is, I mean, just going back to red teaming, that’s work that a trust and safety team typically does. And those teams— Leah Feiger: We don’t have those anymore. Zoë Schiffer: They’re not as big as they used to be. There’s just…
Just when you thought the AI data center boom couldn’t get any crazier, Meta has gone and built data centers in tents. The strategy appears to borrow in equal parts from Tesla and xAI. In a bid to cut construction time in half, Meta has built six tents — or “rapid deployment structures” as the…
The old success metrics no longer survive contact with reality. There is a particular kind of clarity that comes from walking out of three days of analyst sessions and realizing that the conference didn’t change your mind — it confirmed something you’d been reluctant to say out loud. I was at the Gartner Security &…
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Have you ever wanted to wave a magic wand at something and make it yours? Well, now you can, so long as you have enough money in your debit account to pay for it. Cash App, the digital payments service operated by Block, has offered its users the ability to use free physical cards since…
Waymo has announced a deal with an energy storage company called B2U to use retired robotaxi batteries to serve electricity grids in California and Texas. The deal helps answer the question of how Waymo is thinking about the end-of-life treatment of the thousands of robotaxis it has deployed around the United States. Almost all of…
SpaceX has set its IPO price at $135 per share, putting Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company on track for one of the largest public listings ever. At that price, SpaceX would raise about $75 billion by selling 555.6 million shares and reach a valuation near $1.77 trillion. The company is expected to list on…
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Amazon Echo Show 8 (4th Gen) for $180: This is a solid smart speaker with Amazon’s latest physical design and Alexa+ right out of the box, but it’s not a sound improvement over the older model, so I’d personally pick the third-gen option (see above) while it’s still available or upgrade to the Echo Show…
Defense tech is red hot right now. Anduril and Mach Industries just doubled and quadrupled their valuations, respectively, and the U.S. government is proposing a 40% increase in defense budget. A wave of new startups is chasing those government contracts, but according to Ross Fubini, the venture investor who wrote Anduril’s first check, most of them will get lost in the Valley of Death between prototype contract…
