YouTube raises Premium prices across Europe with an opt-in deadline

YouTube Premium is getting more expensive across Europe. This time the company is asking subscribers to agree, rather than simply imposing the increase. A price-change notice seen by TNW went to a Rom [...]

Castelion raises $1bn at $13bn to scale hypersonic weapon production

Castelion has raised $1bn at a $13bn valuation. Three SpaceX executives founded the company in 2022 to build missiles. Its first product is Blackbeard, a hypersonic strike weapon designed for quantity [...]

Samsung approves a record $80bn shareholder return, and the stock falls

Samsung Electronics approved the largest shareholder return in South Korean corporate history on Friday. Its shares then fell as much as 2.6% in post-market trading. The board signed off on a Samsung [...]

Mark Zuckerberg bought a castle, while the rest of us get one made of sand, once a year

Strancally Castle stands above a bend in the Blackwater, half an hour’s drive from Youghal, in a stretch of Co Waterford where the river runs wide, and the light is mostly grey. James and George Ric [...]

DeepSeek launches an experimental multimodal model to rival Anthropic

DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday and said its agent performance is close to Anthropic’s Opus-4.8. On DeepSeek’s own published table, it beats that model on three benchm [...]

Broadcom seeks more than $60bn in debt to fund AI chips for Anthropic

Broadcom is in talks with lenders to raise more than $60bn in debt, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The money would finance AI chips for Anthropic and other companies. Bloomberg cited people with know [...]

Nvidia pays Poolside $6bn to license its model factory and hire 109 staff

Nvidia has agreed to pay Poolside $6bn to license the software the startup used to build AI models, and to offer jobs to 109 of its staff. It is also investing $1bn in what remains, at a $12bn pre-mon [...]

Patreon says its discovery problem for small creators is its own fault

Patreon has published a roadmap of new and revamped features. TechCrunch counted 30 of them. The most consequential line in the post is an admission. “To the smaller creators on Patreon: the lack of [...]

Nvidia is in talks with the Korean inference chip designer Rebellions

Nvidia is in early talks with the Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about a technical partnership, an investment or possibly an acquisition, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Jensen Huang met Rebellions [...]