Meta’s Muse Agent Puts a Human on the Line
The voice answering on behalf of Meta’s newest product sounds like software, but for a slice of calls it isn’t. Behind a portion of the phone calls placed through Muse,…
PayPal Lets Meta’s Muse Agent Check Out on Its Network
When Meta’s Muse agent shops for a user, the transaction has to end somewhere: a payment button, a merchant’s checkout page, a card on file. On Tuesday, PayPal said it…
SoftBank Sells $10 Billion in Bonds to Fund OpenAI Stake
The term sheet that reached investors this week set out a shape the bond market knows well: three tranches of dollar notes, maturities staggered out to seven and a half…
Microsoft Cuts About 500 Jobs in Latest Xbox Shake-Up
Matt Booty, the executive in charge of Xbox’s games and studios, opened a memo to staff on Tuesday with a subject line that summed up the moment: continuing the reset.…
SpaceX Stops Taking Falcon 9 Bookings Beyond 2028
For years, satellite operators planning a launch a few years out could simply call SpaceX and secure a spot on a Falcon 9. That option is now closing. SpaceX has…
Hack VC’s Former Partner Found Dead in the California Desert
Hsin-Ju Chuang spent nearly a decade inside the crypto industry’s fastest-growing companies, including a stretch running growth at Solana. In the final weeks of her life, she had turned against…
Amazon’s Leo Picks a Fight With Starlink in Central Asia
On the sidelines of the Tashkent International Investment Forum this week, a joint venture owned by Uzbekistan’s state telecom operator signed an agreement to resell internet delivered from space. The…
Broadcom’s Anthropic Orders Reshape a Custom-Chip Bet
When Broadcom’s chief executive Hock Tan took questions on an earnings call in December, he gave investors a name they had spent three months trying to guess. The mystery customer…
xAI Releases Grok 4.7 at an Unchanged Price, Still Behind the Frontier
When xAI shipped Grok 4.7 on Sunday, the company did something unusual in a market where every new model seems to cost more: it kept the price exactly where it…
Anthropic Juggles a UN Briefing, IPO Plans and a Bay Area Wet Lab
Dario Amodei will appear before the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, not in person but over a video link, to tell its members about the risks of artificial intelligence.…
