Big Tech wants everyone to use AI, just not when applying for jobs
Marcial Quinones (not pictured) has struggled to land a job. Happy Friday! What do Lauren Sánchez, Katy Perry, and Gayle King have in common? They are part of the first all-women space crew since 1963. Sánchez is leading the six-person crew on an 11-minute journey on one of her fiancé Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rockets.…
Kids these days are buying lots of spicy ramen and fancy water bottles
Three tan Owala bottles at a Target store have three different lid color combinations. Kids these days are growing up in a remarkably different consumer landscape than prior generations. The estimated 46 million Generation Alpha shoppers in the US represent around $28 billion in spending power and their influence is already being felt by brands,…
Bitcoin’s slide continues as traders eye further big falls ahead
Bitcoin looks set for another 13% drawdown over the near term, according to Katie Stockton. Bitcoin’s selloff continued on Thursday night and Friday, falling more than 7% over several hours from above $84,000 to under $79,000, after the token entered a technical bear market this week. It then recovered slightly and was trading at just…
What we can expect from the fifth and final season of ‘The Boys’
Antony Starr as Homelander and Cameron Crovetti as Ryan in season four of “The Boys.” All good things must come to an end, including Prime Video’s popular superhero satire series “The Boys.” The show was officially renewed for a fifth season in May 2024. Two days before the season four premiere, creator and showrunner Eric…
NATO put its new Task Force X naval drones built to stop sabotage and blunt Russian aggression to the test
NATO said its new drone boat force was undergoing demonstrations in the Baltic Sea. The NATO alliance has been testing new Task Force X naval drones in the strategic waters of the Baltic Sea, showing off the new capabilities of these uncrewed systems. The drones are intended to help the allies keep an eye on…
The number Wall Street analysts zeroed in on during Nvidia’s earnings call
Nvidia’s gross margin guidance was a sticking point for some analysts during its earnings call on Wednesday. Nvidia knocked it out of the park with its fourth-quarter earnings report — but its gross margin guidance was a sticking point for Wall Street during the analyst call on Wednesday. The metric, a closely watched measure of…
Google just had layoffs, and Googlers are using a Google Doc to track who got cut
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. Google this week cut employees across several of its units, including Cloud, ad sales, and Trust & Safety. Google staffers have circulated an internal Google doc tracking company job cuts, crowdsourced from internal memos and employee testimonies. Employees say Google has been making rolling cuts over the past few months, though…
Vistra’s stock had surged amid the AI boom. Now Wall Street is getting antsy waiting for a data center deal.
David Yeager, project manager for Vistra Zero, walks through the cases containing storage batteries at the Moss Landing Power Plant. The AI boom has led to a massive demand for energy to power data centers. At the same time, red tape is slowing dealmaking between data centers and power providers, Vistra CEO and president Jim…
An early Uber angel investor directed his VC firm to take Waymos only
Kevin Hartz, angel investor and founder of A Star Capital, said he was disappointed when Uber discontinued its in-house autonomous vehicle program. Kevin Hartz, an early Uber angel investor and cofounder of Eventbrite, directed his San Francisco-based venture capital firm, A Star Capital, to only take Waymo robotaxis in the city because he believes they…
