Before we talk about the technology, we need to talk about what it is taking from us, or teaching us to give away. As journalists and writers covering tech, our job is not only to report what is being built, funded, launched, or regulated. It is also to pay attention to what these systems are […]

Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan, and McGraw Hill, joined by author Scott Turow, filed a proposed class action in Manhattan on Tuesday alleging Meta pirated millions of their works to train Llama. After Judge Chhabria’s June 2025 ruling, plaintiffs with stronger market-harm evidence have been waiting their turn. On Tuesday morning, five of the world’s largest […]

Tuesday’s New York event added Claude Opus 4.7, a library of ~10 pre-built finance agents, an FIS-built AML investigator going live at BMO and Amalgamated Bank, and a Moody’s native app covering 600 million companies. The day after the $1.5bn Wall Street joint venture, the product side caught up. On Monday, Anthropic announced a $1.5bn […]

The Series B is the largest ever raised by a Dutch deeptech company, and the largest private round any dedicated quantum-processor company has closed. Intel Capital, In-Q-Tel, and ETF Partners are joining a syndicate that already had FORWARD.one and Invest-NL. There is, in 2026, a very specific kind of European deeptech success story that policy-makers […]

Coinbase is cutting 14 per cent of its workforce, roughly 660 employees from a company of 4,700, two days before it reports the worst quarterly earnings in its history as a public company. CEO Brian Armstrong announced the layoffs on Tuesday in a letter to staff that mentioned the crypto market downturn in passing and […]