Chime is paying $590m for its own sponsor bank
Chime is buying the bank that has held its customers’ money for seven years. The company announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire
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Kawasaki signed an AI chip deal with a startup the Pentagon backs
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has signed an agreement to put a startup’s AI chips into Japanese aerial defence platforms. The chip company is the interesting part.
India’s fraud office recommends a detailed investigation into Xiaomi’s local business
India’s Serious Fraud Investigation Office has recommended a detailed investigation into Xiaomi’s business in the country, according to an internal document examining how money moved
NextDC raises A$1.1bn in convertible notes, its third capital raise in four months
NextDC is raising A$1.1bn, about $796M, through convertible notes to fund the continued expansion of its Australian data centres. It is the third time the
Why this month’s Microsoft patch release is a doozy
Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold.
The universal language of space is… Star Trek? Mais oui.
Sixty years after television audiences first tuned in to see the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, an astronaut on board the International Space Station has
California, an Environmental Bastion, Warms to Nuclear Energy
The state is considering extending the life of its last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, and allowing construction of new reactors to help meet its
How Amazon’s Zoox Is Taking On Waymo in San Francisco
The Amazon-owned driverless car company is a distant second to Waymo. Its pitch to riders? Wine pop-ups, festival sponsorships and a car built to be
CloudNC raises $20M to expand its AI machining tools and launch a quoting product
CloudNC has raised $20mn to push its AI machining software into more workshops and launch a second product aimed at quoting, the commercial bottleneck that
OpenAI publishes its Navier-Stokes proof and says it will not claim the Millennium Prize
When OpenAI announced on a press call that an internal model had cracked one of mathematics’ hardest open problems, we wrote that nobody had seen
Leap second proposal will keep software stacks in sync
For decades, global time experts have mapped atomic clock time to the earth’s rotation, periodically adding a second (aka a leap second) as rotation slowed.
Reid Hoffman joins Mosaic Ventures as an advisory partner
Reid Hoffman says he is joining Mosaic Ventures, a London seed and Series A firm that now describes AI in Europe as its sole focus
Google’s map of every possible DNA typo could speed up rare disease research
DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a petabyte of precomputed predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome, free for academic use.
Robinhood ranks last of 18 banks on the Oura IPO. The channel it just joined is being built for what comes next.
Robinhood has won its first IPO underwriting role, ranking last among 18 banks on Oura’s offering. The bigger shift is in retail distribution: SpaceX reserved