Musk’s ‘Odyssey’ Arrives as Seven Minutes, Not a Movie
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” opened in July and kept selling out Imax screens for months. It was shot across six countries with a cast and crew in the thousands, and…
Palantir Wrote the Rules It Then Bid Under at Britain’s Defence Ministry
In February, Louis Mosley, who runs Palantir’s British business, walked into the office of Luke Pollard, the defence procurement minister, carrying a 23-page document. It was a review of how…
Block’s Voice Model Learned to Talk Without Reading Anything
Dvir Zagury-Grynbaum has a surprise for his partner, and he cannot get through it. He promises a flight to Paris. Before the sentence lands, the other voice cuts in: “Oh…
Instacart’s Suitors Circle, and One Walks Away
The report landed on a Friday afternoon, which is when the market tends to be least able to check it. The Information said Instacart had hired an investment bank to…
Tesla Ends the Cybertruck’s Seven-Year Detour Down Under
The email that landed in Australian inboxes on October 23 was four sentences long and had been nearly seven years in the making. “After careful consideration, plans to produce Cybertruck…
IBM’s Chief Puts a Number on the Open-Model Trade: 90% as Good, 10% the Cost
Arvind Krishna spent most of IBM’s third-quarter earnings call on the subjects chief executives usually defend: revenue growth, software margins, the mainframe cycle. Then an analyst asked about inference costs,…
SpaceX Lifts Ukraine’s Satellite Speed Cap, Then Says It Was Enforcing Its Own Rules
For ten days, a Starlink terminal moving faster than 161 kilometres an hour went dark. That is roughly the speed of the drones Ukraine uses to intercept Russian attack aircraft,…
Meta Buys an Analytics Startup Founded by Two of Its Own
Julie Zhuo announced the sale the way founders usually do, with a short post and a photograph. “Nearly six years ago, Chandra and I started Sundial,” she wrote on X.…
Apple’s First Foldable Cracks Along the Hinge in Its First Days
The owner had used his iPhone Duo for about six hours and opened it fewer than twenty times. He was showing the phone to a friend when he felt something…
Apple Puts a Touchscreen on the MacBook Pro and a Higher Price on the iPad Mini
The invitation Apple sent on Oct. 19 gave away less than its tagline. “Pro and tell,” it read, for an experience in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. Pacific on Wednesday.…
