Musk Touts xAI Rebuild as Founders Leave
Elon Musk says his artificial intelligence startup needs to be rebuilt.
“xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up,” the world’s richest p...
Aether OS is a computer in a browser built for the AT Protocol
Aether OS puts a full-fledged desktop in your browser that ties directly into the AT Protocol. That means it connects to your Bluesky account and other public records. It offers a pretty full s...
Recap: Europe’s top 10 funding rounds this week (9 -15 March)
From a record-breaking AI seed in Paris to Croatian drones and Lithuanian food tech, Europe’s startup ecosystem had a busy week. The week of 9-15 March was, by any measure, an exceptional one for Eu...
The fast rise and epic fall of Clubhouse
In 2020 and 2021, the social media world seemed to be on the verge of complete change. A new app called TikTok was ascendant, bringing a whole new kind of vertical video to phones everywhere. A...
Live-service games are a mess
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the slow-motion disaster of live-service games, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback ...
The $100,000 fee for H-1Bs is causing all sorts of problems
Last fall, President Donald Trump's executive order raising the fee for H-1B visas to $100,000 - like many of his immigration policies - led to near-immediate chaos. Thousands of workers who ha...
Meta is reportedly laying off up to 20 percent of its staff
According to Reuters, Meta is looking to offset spending on AI and data centers with a massive round of layoffs. Sources familiar with the matter say the company could lay off as much as 20 per...
