Hidden Zillow listings created fake supply shock, raising NYC rents, lawsuit says
This week, two New York City renters filed a class action complaint alleging that a brokerage business called Compass—which has been boycotting posting listings on
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Motorola’s GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels
Several months ago, Motorola and the makers of GrapheneOS announced a team-up that would expand support for the privacy-centric OS to beyond Google’s Pixel phones.
Sick of Constant Pings, They’re Sending Texts at the Speed of Carrier Pigeon
Apps that let users send digital messages at ultraslow speeds have taken off, with users reveling in a slower pace of life. (Just don’t use
Two 21-year-olds built an AI that runs online stores
They started selling online at 15. Their company, Siml, now runs over 1,000 stores. Nurtilek Raimzhanov and Zuhayr Abdullazhanov met in high school and have
Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models
Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year buying access to AI models through Microsoft’s cloud. The company runs trillions of tokens a
China is recalling millions of EVs because the emergency release blends into the trim
China’s market regulator has ordered a recall of more than 4 million vehicles, including nearly 2.98 million Teslas, because interior emergency door releases blend into
Anthropic’s enterprise venture has bought its second consultancy in four months
Ode, the enterprise AI company Anthropic set up with Blackstone, has bought an AI consultancy called Casper Studios. Casper helps companies put Claude to work
Canonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation for Ubuntu
Canonical has committed funding to a three-year PhD project focused on building a system that can automatically translate large C codebases into Rust. And they
Warp Launches Factories to Let Engineering Teams Build Their Own Cloud Software Factories
▶️ Warp has introduced Factories, infrastructure for running your own cloud software factory with fleets of agents.▶️ Agents handle triage, specs, implementation, and review; humans
Google says Gemma has passed a billion downloads
Google says its Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. Developers have published more than 100,000 Gemma variants over the past two
Meta launched Pocket in the US, and the app it came from shut down the same day
Meta has launched Pocket across the United States. The app it is based on shut down the same day. Pocket had been testing quietly in
Anthropic Could Aim to Raise $100 Billion in Blockbuster I.P.O.
The offering could value the five-year-old A.I. start-up at $2 trillion, its bankers have told potential investors, which would exceed Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Trump’s space transportation policy calls for new spaceport on federal land
A new national space transportation policy signed by President Tweety McTreason on Thursday calls for the development of more spaceports to support more than 1,000
Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging
Most of what we know about the Earth’s interior comes from observing seismic waves. These travel at somewhat different speeds depending on the details of