Etsy sells secondhand clothing marketplace Depop to eBay for $1.2B
The deal comes nearly five years after Etsy purchased Depop for $1.62 billion, at a time when secondhand clothing apps were gaining traction during the pandemic.
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Elon Musk and OpenAI posture over pizza as the AI talent war heats up
Elon Musk and an OpenAI engineer engaged in a game of pizza one-upmanship over the weekend as AI companies fight for top recruits.
California City Bans Contracts With Elon Musk's Companies, Except for Starlink
The Davis City Council approves a resolution to block investments in Musk-controlled companies, but leaders create a carveout for Starlink when it comes to emergency operations.
Airport authority paves way for ‘high-speed underground travel to and from BNA’ in license agreement with Elon Musk’s company
The project is not supposed to cost MNAA or taxpayers anything. The Boring Company will be covering the costs.
Elon Musk and Mark Cuban disagree over whether money can buy happiness. Here’s what science says
It’s hard to feel bad for Elon Musk, but his miserable tweets are a reminder of the complicated truth about money and ...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk moves closer to becoming the world’s first-ever trillionaire as net worth nears $850 billion
Elon Musk is on the verge of becoming the world's first trillionaire. His current net worth stands at an estimated $850 billion. This remarkable financial growth is largely fueled by the recent merger ...
Elon Musk Warned of a ‘Military AI Arms Race.’ Now SpaceX and xAI Are Bidding to Power One
The Elon Musk-led companies are competing to design tech that would allow people to control swarms of drones with AI.
Elon Musk wants to put a satellite catapult on the moon. It's not a new idea
Elon Musk isn't the first person to propose the use of mass drivers on the moon. He's following in the footsteps of space ...
Hacking conference Def Con bans three people linked to Epstein
The Def Con hacking conference banned hackers Pablos Holman and Vincenzo Iozzo, as well as former MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito, from attending the annual conference after their reported connections with Jeffrey Epstein.
New agent framework matches human-engineered AI systems — and adds zero inference cost to deploy
Agents built on top of today's models often break with simple changes — a new library, a workflow modification — and require a human engineer to fix it. That's one of the most persistent challenges in deploying AI for the enterprise: creating agents that can adapt to dynamic environments without constant hand-holding. While today's models are powerful, they are largely static.To address this, researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have developed Group-Evolving
Is your startup’s check engine light on? Google Cloud’s VP explains what to do
Startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever, using AI while facing tighter funding, rising infrastructure costs, and more pressure to show real traction early. Cloud credits, access to GPUs, and foundation models have made it easier to get started, but those early infrastructure choices can have unforeseen consequences once startups move beyond […]
A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky’s app
Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.
SeatGeek and Spotify team up to offer concert ticket sales inside the music platform
SeatGeek announced on Wednesday a new integration with Spotify, bringing a seamless ticket-buying experience for Spotify users.  Now, when Spotify users browse an artist’s page or upcoming tour dates, they will see ticket links powered by SeatGeek for concerts at these participating venues, allowing for a streamlined purchase process. Currently, the integration is available for […]
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 397B-A17 beats its larger trillion-parameter model — at a fraction of the cost
Alibaba dropped Qwen3.5 earlier this week, timed to coincide with the Lunar New Year, and the headline numbers alone are enough to make enterprise AI buyers stop and pay attention.The new flagship open-weight model — Qwen3.5-397B-A17B — packs 397 billion total parameters but activates only 17 billion per token. It is claiming benchmark wins against Alibaba's own previous flagship, Qwen3-Max, a model the company itself has acknowledged exceeded one trillion parameters. The release marks a me
Amazon halts Blue Jay robotics project after less than six months
Amazon said Blue Jay's core tech will be used for other robotics projects and the employees who worked on it were moved to other projects.
Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, plans to target creators with new features
Mastodon is looking to grow its open source, decentralized social network with new features aimed at creators.
Data breach at fintech giant Figure affects close to a million customers
The Figure data breach allowed hackers to steal customer names, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.
World Labs lands $1B, with $200M from Autodesk, to bring world models into 3D workflows
The partnership will see the two companies exploring how World Labs’ models can work alongside Autodesk’s tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases.
Google debuts $499 Pixel 10a
The smartphone is available for preorder now with shipments starting March 5. It comes in Lavender, Berry, Fog, and Obsidian.
Audible’s new ‘Read & Listen’ feature syncs your Kindle e-books with audiobooks
The feature will require customers to buy both versions of the title, but at a discounted price.