What was Elizabeth Holmes’s partner watching in the new Nathan Fielder documentary? We found the videos (and the scientists in them).
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Binance Suspends Withdrawals After Crypto Hackers Steal $6.3 Billion
The crypto exchange said it was compromised in what could be the biggest crypto heist ever. One research lab attributed the theft to “North Korea’s elite hacking unit.”
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Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers’ machines, multiple sources reported Friday. Anthropic so far has yet to warn customers of the incident. The compromised package was a VS Code extension available in the marketplace of Cursor, a maker of AI-assisted developer tools, the company said...
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Big Tech’s Data Center Blitz Is Burning Through Cash and Scaring Wall St.
Amazon on Thursday became the latest tech company to announce swelling investments in A.I. amid stumbling share prices.
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Intel’s Shares Plunge 20% as A.I. Hinders Some Parts of Its Business
The chipmaker, whose largest investor is the U.S. government, reported that the A.I. boom’s domino effect had hurt sales to personal computer makers.
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Polymarket and Kalshi Turn Midterm Elections Into a Multimillion Dollar Market
Betting markets like Polymarket and Kalshi have transformed America’s democracy into a new kind of casino.
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Nvidia Chief, Jensen Huang, Is Seen as Target of Chinese Spy Plot
A Chinese businesswoman who had a close relationship with Jensen Huang was found to be passing intelligence to Beijing. President Trump was briefed and took no action.
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DoorDash to Buy Instacart for $17 Billion, Uniting 2 Delivery Giants
The deal combines the country’s largest restaurant delivery service with its biggest online grocery platform.
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AI Is Finding a Flood of Bugs, and Silicon Valley Is Rushing to Fix Them
A.I. has uncovered a horde of software flaws, which engineers are racing to fix before they can be exploited and abused by hackers.
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Microsoft’s Profit Jumps 32% Despite Big Increase in Spending
The company’s free cash flow stayed positive in the last quarter even as it spent $45.2 billion on capital expenses like data centers and offered to pay workers to leave.