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Geothermal startup Fervo catapults itself over the ‘valley of death’

TIM DE CHANT

Fervo landed a large new loan with terms that strongly suggest the company's most turbulent days are behind it.

Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition

SARAH PEREZ

Bluesky's Series B closed last April but is being shared now, the week after its CEO stepped down.

Online bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO says

SARAH PEREZ

AI bots may outnumber humans online by 2027, says Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, as generative AI agents dramatically increase web traffic and infrastructure demands.

OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

KYLE ORLAND

Codex maker says it will "continue to support these open source projects" after deal closes.

Polymarket continues its partnership spree with a Major League Baseball deal

LUCAS ROPEK

MLB is only the latest in a string of recently announced partnerships involving the prediction market.

Dogfighting in space won't look like the movies, but this company wants in on it

STEPHEN CLARK

"Where we are today in space warfare is very similar to where air superiority was in the 1930s."

FBI started buying Americans' location data again, Kash Patel confirms

JON BRODKIN

Tom Cotton supports FBI data purchasing, compares it to searching people's trash.

Hundreds of millions of iPhones can be hacked with a new tool found in the wild

ANDY GREENBERG, WIRED.COM

DarkSword, a powerful iPhone-hacking technique, has been discovered in use by Russian hackers.

Employees had to restrain a dancing humanoid robot after it went wild at a California restaurant

AMANDA SILBERLING

A dancing robot in a Haidilao hot pot restaurant boogied down a little too hard.

Cloud service providers ask EU regulator to reinstate VMware partner program

SCHARON HARDING

Broadcom says the group is misrepresenting market "realities."

‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’

BRIAN BARRETT, ZOË SCHIFFER

In this episode, we dive into Nvidia’s annual developer conference and what CEO Jensen Huang is saying about the future of the company.

Jeff Bezos reportedly wants $100 billion to buy and transform old manufacturing firms with AI

LUCAS ROPEK

The Amazon magnate has a new project centered around acquiring industrial firms and revamping them with AI technology.

RFK Jr. has destroyed over a quarter of health dept's expert panels

BETH MOLE

Under Kennedy, the health dept. has wiped out 75 advisory boards, corrupted others.

Amazon acquires Rivr, maker of a stair-climbing delivery robot

KIRSTEN KOROSEC

Amazon and Jeff Bezos had previously invested in the startup.

US Takes Down Botnets Used in Record-Breaking Cyberattacks

ANDY GREENBERG

The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had used clever techniques to worm into home networks, infecting more than 3 million devices in total, according to the US Justice Department.