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Sotheby's big T. rex auction raises concerns hype and wealth are upending science

KATE WONG, WIRED.COM

Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils.

How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

ERIC BERGER

"The ISS radiators are expensive and heavy. We're focused on making them cheap and light."

Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C

JAGMEET SINGH

The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.

Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet

TIM FERNHOLZ

The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.

Why Realta Fusion is building a fusion reactor at an old hot dog factory

TIM DE CHANT

An old Oscar Meyer factory in Wisconsin will become America's latest fusion power research and development hub.

The Apple FaceID Co-Inventor Building a Frontier AI Model for the Human Brain

ISABELLA WARD

Gidi Littwin's new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression, PTSD, and Parkinson’s. He wants the technology to be as cheap and easy as a blood test.

Reelful’s AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media

AISHA MALIK

The app is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional video editing tools too complex or time-consuming.

Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls

IVAN MEHTA

Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies

A most improbable astronaut just went to space

ERIC BERGER

"I pretty much, at that point in time, gave up on being an astronaut."

Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models

REBECCA BELLAN

Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.

US charges Russian ‘bulletproof’ web hosts over cyberattacks that netted $62M from cybercrime victims

ZACK WHITTAKER

The 2024 indictment, now unsealed, accuses three Russians and two web hosts of aiding hackers and profiting from cybercrime.

India bets billions on breaking China’s grip on smartphone manufacturing

JAGMEET SINGH

New Delhi announced a $6.5 billion smartphone manufacturing program and a $13.3 billion semiconductor push to deepen India's electronics supply chain.

Spotify expands parent-managed accounts to users on its free tier

AISHA MALIK

The feature was previously only available to paid subscribers.

Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI

SARAH PEREZ

Apple Intelligence is headed to China after regulators approved Apple’s AI services through a partnership with Alibaba. The long-rumored deal will bring Alibaba’s Qwen AI models to Apple’s operating systems, marking a major expansion of the company’s generative AI platform into one of its most important markets.

Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for around $53.4B

LAUREN FORRISTAL

Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly submitted a joint bid to acquire PayPal in a deal valued at approximately $53.4 billion.  Reuters reports that the offer was submitted earlier this month and is backed by roughly $50 billion in committed bank financing. Under the proposal, Stripe and Advent would jointly own PayPal, […]