Nick Wingfield

Anthropic has received expressions of interest from investors who want to put money into the AI startup at an $800 billion valuation, but the company has no current plans to raise money.Those were among the details in a profile of Anthropic Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao published by The Information . A decision on raising more money likely won’t happen until after Anthropic’s May board

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin completed the third mission for its New Glenn rocket, which mostly went as planned.On Sunday morning, the rocket’s booster successfully landed on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida, the second time Blue Origin has accomplished that feat, which is a crucial step in the reusability of the rocket. Bezos posted a video clip on X of the

Vercel, a cloud development platform, on Sunday said a security breach allowed an attacker to gain unauthorized access to data for a “limited subset of customers.”In a post on X , Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch said the attack began when a Vercel employee’s Google Workspace account was compromised through a breach at the AI platform Context.ai. “We believe the attacking group to be highly

Predictions site Polymarket is in discussions with investors about $400 million in funding at around a $15 billion valuation, which would add to $600 million that Intercontinental Exchange recently invested in the company, The Information reported .This valuation is substantially lower than rival Kalshi’s $22 billion round. Kalshi’s higher valuation stems from its existing U.S. customer base

Meta Platforms has made its plans to cut 10% of its staff, or around 8,000 people, official.In a memo to employees, the company’s chief people officer, Janelle Gale, said the layoffs will happen on May 20, Bloomberg reported. Meta also will not fill about 6,000 open jobs at the company. A Meta spokesperson confirmed the accuracy of the Bloomberg report. Reuters last week reported on the

Helion Energy, a nuclear fusion startup backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, still has to prove it can produce electricity to serve data centers and other customers. But investors seem confident it can deliver. The Everett, Wash.–based company said it has raised $465 million in a funding round led by ...

A couple days ago, John Carmack, a videogame pioneer and former virtual reality executive at Meta Platforms, wrote on X that he had begun seeing anti–data center yard signs popping up in his neighborhood. “I am entertaining the idea of paying for a billboard with something like ‘Data centers are ...

Apple’s Vision Pro and smart glasses chief, Paul Meade, is leaving for OpenAI, Bloomberg reported. Meade, a vice president, will depart Apple by next week and join OpenAI’s hardware unit to work on its forthcoming line of devices, Bloomberg said.Meade has been at Apple since 2010 and in the Vision Products Group since 2017, leading Vision Pro hardware engineering for seven years. More

A group of states, led by California and including New York, Washington, and Connecticut, is planning to sue to block Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, The New York Times reported.The lawsuit, which is expected to argue that the deal would harm competition for blockbuster movies, would represent one of the last major hurdles to the acquisition after the U.S.