Harvard’s $2.2 Billion SpaceX Stake Shows Endowments Now Hold What They Once Flipped
The 13F filing that Harvard University’s endowment submitted this month listed a familiar name among its largest holdings: SpaceX. The position, valued at roughly $2.2 billion, was reported by Bloomberg…
ChatGPT’s European Free Users Will See Ads as OpenAI Opens a Third Revenue Line
The screens of millions of European ChatGPT users are about to change. Free-tier and Go-plan subscribers across the continent will begin seeing advertisements later this month, according to ppc.land, which…
SpaceX Completes $60 Billion All-Stock Deal for Cursor Maker Anysphere
The deal was announced in mid-June and closed in two months, an unusually short window for a transaction of its size. On Aug. 14, SpaceX said it completed its all-stock…
Musk Holds 48.4% of SpaceX, Worth More Than $900 Billion
A regulatory filing published Aug. 14 lays out the ownership of the most valuable private company in the world in cold numbers: as of June 30, Elon Musk held 48.4…
X Opens Up Its Ranking Algorithm, Letting Users Check for Shadow Bans
The black box has a window now. X announced Aug. 13 that it is open-sourcing the ranking code behind its “For You” recommendation feed and launching a transparency tool that…
Google Ships Gemini 3.7 Flash Three Weeks After Its Predecessor
The release cadence has become the product. Google announced Gemini 3.7 Flash on Aug. 13, just three weeks after the previous version, Gemini 3.6 Flash, and the company is not…
Tesla’s Roadster, a Decade Late, May Finally Debut This Month With Rocket Thrusters
The prototype was unveiled in 2017, a sleek two-seater that Tesla promised would be the fastest production car ever made. Nearly ten years later, the car still has not shipped.…
AI Coding Startup Cognition in Talks at $40 Billion Valuation
Cognition, the startup behind the AI coding agent Devin, is in talks with investors about a new funding round at a valuation of about $40 billion, according to people familiar…
Apple in Talks to License News Content for AI-Powered Siri
Late on Aug. 12, The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple is negotiating paid licenses for news content, with the goal of improving how its AI-enhanced Siri answers questions about…
SpaceX Weathers First Lockup Test as Starlink Reaches Vietnam
On Aug. 6, more than 911 million SpaceX shares came out of their first lockup, roughly doubling the number of shares available to trade in a single session. By every…
