There are basically two good times to buy an espresso maker or a latte machine: Amazon Prime Day and Black Friday. That’s when these machines go on the biggest sales of any given year—including the two most popular espresso machines on earth, according to Amazon sales figures. The Breville Barista Express and the Ninja Luxe…
AI inference company Baseten is close to finalizing a stunning $1.5 billion funding round at a $13 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reports. Just five months ago, the startup announced that it had raised a $300 million Series E at a $5 billion valuation. And that round was just nine months after raising a…
Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company Blue Origin is aiming to launch another rocket before the end of 2026, setting an ambitious timetable after a recent explosion damaged launchpad infrastructure and equipment. It is rebuilding the facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, where the explosion occurred last month. Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said…
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What’s better than reading in a beach chair in the shade? Reading on a beach chair in the shade using the Kobo Libra Colour (8/10 WIRED Reccomends), which is waterproof, has color e-ink, and has a mode for doodling down ideas with a stylus. Compared to Kindles, this device feels more like a productivity tool,…
OpenAI is bringing on some big names to the team in the lead-up to its public debut: Google DeepMind AI legend Noam Shazeer and former Trump White House AI policy official Dean Ball. Shazeer, a co-lead at Gemini and the founder of AI role-playing startup Character AI, announced his departure on Wednesday. He had been…
Europe wants more control over the infrastructure behind AI, and Alibaba Cloud wants a bigger role in that market. The company has launched its first cloud region in France, adding two availability zones in Paris for European businesses weighing local cloud hosting, data sovereignty, and AI infrastructure needs. The expansion gives European companies another regional…
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Earlier this month, five current Amazon employees publicly urged Seattle City Council to regulate data centers. It was an unprecedented act of advocacy by tech workers, and now three of the staffers say they are under internal investigation for what they understand to be allegedly representing themselves as spokespeople for the company without prior approval….
Apple announced on Thursday that developers in Brazil are now allowed to distribute their iOS apps through alternative app stores and process payments for digital goods and services outside the App Store. The changes, which are a part of Apple’s agreement with Brazil’s competition regulator Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica, or CADE, loosen Apple’s rules…
