2026-08-04

Bezos Earth Fund and Leonardo DiCaprio are committing $200 million to save 100 endangered species

The Phoenix Species Project will fund recovery efforts for species spanning 30 countries, with $100 million each from the Bezos Earth Fund and Re:wild [...]

2026-08-04

Chipotle stock sinks after chain pulls jalapeños tied to Minnesota salmonella outbreak

Minnesota health officials have identified 110 salmonella javiana cases tied to the outbreak, with 89% of interviewed patients reporting they ate at Chipotle [...]

2026-08-04

Moderna is testing its first mRNA Ebola vaccine as the Congo outbreak worsens

The trial, backed by up to $50 million from CEPI, comes as the Congo outbreak surpasses 3,700 confirmed cases and 1,600 deaths [...]

2026-08-04

Anthropic signed a $10 billion computing deal with a months-old Nvidia-backed startup

The six-year agreement covers a 133-megawatt data center in Norway stocked with Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips [...]

2026-08-04

Buzz Solutions Raises $20 Million Series A to Expand AI-Powered Grid Intelligence

Buzz Solutions has raised $20 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round as utilities look for faster ways to inspect, maintain, and strengthen increasingly complex energy infrastructure. S3 Ventures led the round, with significant follow-on investment from GoPoint Ventures. Existing investors HearstLab and Blackhorn Ventures also participated. Buzz Solutions said the capital will support [...]

2026-08-04

Fender’s CEO compared cover bands to AI. Now he’s walking it back

The backlash shows how fraught the debate over artificial intelligence has become for musicians and fans alike. [...]

2026-08-04

To navigate the fraught AI landscape, we need to shift from debate to dialogue

Debate asks who is right. Dialogue asks what is true, what matters, and what should we do next. [...]

2026-08-04

Jeff Bezos files to sell roughly $4 billion in Amazon shares after stock hits $3 trillion

Jeff Bezos has filed to sell 15 million shares of Amazon common stock, a stake worth roughly four billion dollars based on the company’s closing price on Monday. The filing, a Form 144 submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission, disclosed that the sales would be executed through Morgan Stanley under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-04

Zillow calls itself “AI-native.” It just cut 500 jobs and won’t say whether AI was the reason.

Zillow laid off more than 500 people on Tuesday, about 7% of its staff and its largest cut of the year. The Seattle property company made the move one day before it reports quarterly earnings. It has spent the year telling investors it is becoming an “AI-native” company. It will not say whether AI had […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]