Jane Street commits $6 billion to CoreWeave and takes a $1 billion equity stake

In short: Jane Street has signed a $6 billion AI cloud agreement with CoreWeave and taken a $1 billion equity stake at $109 per share, making the quantitative trading firm one of CoreWeave’s five la [...]

The Wybot S3 just might be the pool-cleaning robot of your dreams

Swimming is one of my favorite things in the whole world. Cleaning a pool, however, is an absolute drag. For my money, pool-cleaning robots are much handier than even standard robovacs. If you have ac [...]

American AI startup Poolside launches free, high-performing open model Laguna XS.2 for local agentic coding

The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art proprietary model for general users (Claude Opus 4.7), then, a week or so later, its r [...]

Cash App opens up to Apple Pay and Google Pay with a group payment option

Cash App has debuted a new group payment feature that allows folks who don't even use the app to contribute to a kitty. Pools enables Cash App users to invite folks to chip in for a large purchas [...]

Alphabet will pay $22 million to settle President Trump’s YouTube lawsuit

Alphabet will pay President Donald Trump $22 million as part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought against the company over the suspension of various YouTube accounts following the January [...]

Sesame Street will air on Netflix and PBS simultaneously

PBS, alongside NPR, is facing an unprecedented attempt from the executive branch to cut its federal funding and potentially reduce what it can offer. But, in good news, one of its mainstays will be wi [...]

Overwatch 2 will allow KBM on console, but you'll be up against PC players

Overwatch 2 console players will officially be able to use a keyboard and mouse starting with the release of Season 18. In patch notes posted ahead of the new season, the Overwatch 2 team says matchma [...]

Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of open models designed to run on laptops, drones, and edge devices

Mistral AI, Europe's most prominent artificial intelligence startup, is releasing its most ambitious product suite to date: a family of 10 open-source models designed to run everywhere from smart [...]

Netflix reveals lead cast for Dolly Alderton’s Pride and Prejudice series – will this be a better Jane Austen adaptation than its last?

"Better than Persuasion" may be a low bar, but we're optimistic about Netflix's latest Jane Austen adaptation. [...]