New York has more tech workers than San Francisco for the first time

New York has more tech workers than the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time since CBRE started counting 13 years ago. The property firm’s Scoring Tech Talent 2026 report, subtitled “AI Reali [...]

Starcloud raised $250mn to buy rockets it cannot yet book

Starcloud has raised $250mn to put AI compute in orbit, and a large part of the money is earmarked for rockets it cannot yet book. The Series A extension values the company at $2.3bn post-money, the c [...]

Micron is spending $10bn on a lab betting the memory cycle has changed

Micron is putting $10bn into a research lab built on the premise that AI has permanently changed what memory is worth. The company announced Micron Research Labs on Thursday, headquartered in Boise, I [...]

Apple Music will label AI songs, and the tags behind them are now mandatory

Apple Music will start showing listeners which songs were made with AI. The disclosure behind those labels also stops being optional. Apple emailed music industry partners on Thursday to announce Made [...]

Uber is fined 825 million euros over automated driver suspensions

The Dutch data protection authority has decided to fine Uber €825mn, or about $966mn, for shutting down driver accounts by automated systems without telling the drivers properly. It is the second-la [...]

Google wants publishers to install a button that makes readers pick them

Google is giving publishers a button to put on their own websites. Clicking it adds that publisher to a reader’s preferred sources on Google. It is one of three personalisation changes the company a [...]

Apple paid 40% of its global tax bill to one country

Apple paid Ireland $17.1bn in tax last financial year. That is around 40% of everything it paid in corporate income tax anywhere in the world. The figure comes from a company filing that breaks Appleâ [...]

AI doesn’t need to replace humans to weaken human capability

Artificial intelligence is becoming one of the fastest ways to remove friction from knowledge work. A 2025 field experiment termed Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI involving 6,000 workers fou [...]

Astromech raised $20mn at $3.8bn to forecast how biology breaks

Astromech has raised $20mn at a $3.8 billion valuation to build AI that predicts how living systems will change. The company says its models learn from 3.8 billion years of biological history. The val [...]