Trump FCC lets Nexstar buy Tegna and blow way past 39% TV ownership cap
The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2 billion purchase of Tegna, granting a waiver that lets the broadcast giant go way past
Category: Tech
Perplexity has launched Perplexity Health
The AI search company launches a suite of health data connectors, linking Apple Health, wearables, and electronic health records, making it the second major AI
Why the checkout is the most strategic product in your 2026 stack
Every product team has a roadmap. Every marketing team has a funnel. But ask most SaaS and ecommerce leaders which single component has the greatest
More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use.
At a number of companies, employees compete on leaderboards to show how much A.I. they’re using. They’re racking up big bills along the way.
Polymarket Says It Deals in Truth, but Its Social Feeds Are Filled With Falsehoods
A review of the betting market’s social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts.
Starling launches an AI banking assistant that actually does things
The UK challenger bank is rolling out Starling Assistant to personal account holders today, billing it as the UK’s first agentic AI financial assistant. It
DORA is reshaping how Europe’s financial sector thinks about compliance, and most firms still aren’t ready
Fourteen months after the Digital Operational Resilience Act became enforceable, Europe’s financial institutions are running out of room to improvise. The regulation, which took effect
‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing
Companies are using A.I. as a reason for layoffs, but the truth may be more complex.
BBLeap raises €5M to bring plant-level precision spraying to arable farms globally
The Rijen-based startup, which retrofits existing sprayers with nozzle-by-nozzle PWM control, will use the capital to commercialise its LeapEye camera system and scale LeapBox internationally
Apollo.io acquires Pocus as it pushes to build an AI-native operating system for sales teams
The San Francisco B2B sales platform, which recently approached $200M in ARR and appointed a new CEO, absorbs the revenue intelligence startup’s signal-layer technology to
Rocket Report: Canada makes a major move, US Space Force says actually, let’s be hasty
Welcome to Edition 8.34 of the Rocket Report! The most important significant news this week, I believe, is the decision by Canada to make a
Project Hail Mary is in theaters—but do the linguistics work?
The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel Project Hail Mary hits general release today, March 20, and it’s great—go see it! Though a little light
VC Montis raises €50M to back Europe’s energy and industrial tech startups
The Warsaw-based fund, backed by the European Investment Fund and the Polish Development Fund, plans 20–25 pre-seed and seed investments in companies working on energy
The dark side of chatbots with ‘personality’
They say you can find anything on Amazon. Now, you can even get a personality. Not for yourself, but for your AI “friend,” Alexa. Amazon