Circle, one of the world’s largest issuers of USDC, a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar, ended its first trading day as a public company at $83.23 per share, 168% above its IPO price of $31 set the previous day. The IPO pop demonstrates public market investors’ interest in cryptocurrencies and stablecoins in particular amid […]
Why are Elon Musk and Donald Trump fighting?
Elon Musk donated $288 million to Trump’s 2024 election campaign, but now, the tech mogul is calling for Trump’s impeachment.
Europe will have to be more Tenacious to land its first rover on the Moon
Tenacious was set to become the first European-made rover to land on the Moon, but communications were lost with the lander that carried it.
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are smack talking each other into their own digital echo chambers
Well, it finally happened. This town wasn’t big enough for the two towering egos of billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, and now they’re duking it out publicly, albeit from their own separate corners of the web. Musk is taking to his own social media platform, X, to take jabs at Trump, and Trump […]
Perplexity received 780 million queries last month, CEO says
Srinivas went on to note that the same growth trajectory is possible, especially with the new Comet browser that it’s working on.
Walmart and Wing expand drone delivery to five more U.S. cities
Walmart and Wing are expanding their partnership and rolling out drone delivery to dozens of more stores in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa.
Amazon launches new R&D group focused on agentic AI and robotics
Amazon wants this group to develop an agentic AI framework to be used to give its warehouse robots more skills.
Rippling calls Deel ‘a criminal syndicate’ and claims 4 other competitors were spied on, too
The fight between HR tech startups has heated up again after Rippling filed an amended complaint accuses Deel of targeting, infiltrating, and compromising of four other competitors, in addition to Rippling.
Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: ‘It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI’
Anthropic Co-founder and Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan said his company cut Windsurf’s direct access to Anthropic’s Claude AI models largely because of rumors and reports that OpenAI, its largest competitor, is acquiring the AI coding assistant. “We really are just trying to enable our customers who are going to sustainably be working with us […]
Bonfire’s new software lets users build their own social communities, free from platform control
Bonfire’s mission is to build social software where people get to make the decisions, not big tech platform makers like Meta or Google.