A European Space Startup Raises $450 Million to Build a Backup to SpaceX
For Europe’s space agencies and companies, getting anything into orbit has increasingly meant one phone call: to SpaceX. The European Space Agency, commercial satellite operators and even national governments have…
Uber Opens the Euro Bond Market for the First Time With a €4 Billion Deal
Uber has spent a decade borrowing almost entirely in dollars, funding its expansion the way it ran its business: fast and American. On Tuesday, the company did something it has…
Meta Asks Users to Hand Email, Calendar and Bank Cards to a New AI Agent
Vishal Shah had a deadline he did not want to miss again. Meta’s product executive had originally planned to launch the company’s personal AI agent in April, then pushed it…
Apple’s Foldable iPhone Arrives at a New CEO’s First Show
The invitation said “Surprise and Shine,” and for once the surprise was not much of a secret. Apple’s annual September event, held Tuesday at 1 p.m. Eastern, was expected to…
OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Images 2.5 to Every User
The images arrived without much ceremony. On September 9, OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5, its newest image generation model, and made it available to every ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex…
SpaceX Set to Gain Weight in Nasdaq 100 Rebalance
SpaceX’s stock has been trading in a narrow band, but the quiet is unlikely to last. When the Nasdaq 100 index completes its quarterly rebalance later this month, the rocket…
Cognition Raises $2 Billion as Coding Agents Go Mainstream
Scott Wu built his company on a simple claim: a software engineer that never stops. On September 8, Cognition AI said it had raised $2 billion in a Series E…
Stoke Space Raises $1 Billion to Chase a Reusability Feat No Rocket Has Achieved
The company’s pitch to investors has been the same since its founding: build a rocket where everything comes back. On Tuesday Stoke Space announced the funding to keep pursuing that…
A German Startup Reaches Orbit From European Soil
The sky above Andøya was still light when the rocket climbed off the pad. Spectrum, built by the German startup Isar Aerospace, lifted off from the Andøya Spaceport in northern…
OpenAI Fills In the Spec Sheet for GPT-6 Astra
The storefront for OpenAI’s newest flagship model gained some weight over the weekend. The company updated its product page for GPT-6 Astra with benchmark tables, descriptions of enterprise and safety…
