Starcloud Raises $170M to Build Data Centers in Orbit. It Hit Unicorn in 17 Months.
Starcloud hit unicorn status 17 months after YC demo day, raising $170M to build compute infrastructure in orbit. First satellite already carries an Nvidia H100 GPU.
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Starcloud hit unicorn status 17 months after YC demo day, raising $170M to build compute infrastructure in orbit. First satellite already carries an Nvidia H100 GPU.
Sony is raising PS5 prices globally starting April 2. The PS5 Pro jumps $150 to $900, the standard PS5 hits $650. Sony blames continued global economic pressures.
China blocked Manus CEO Xiao Hong and chief scientist Ji Yichao from leaving the country while regulators review Meta's $2B acquisition of the AI startup.
Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen, the last remaining co-founders, have left xAI. All 11 original co-founders are now gone as Musk rebuilds the company under SpaceX.
Apple confirms the Mac Pro is dead with no future models planned. The Mac Studio takes over as Apple's high-end desktop.
Tencent launched ClawBot, integrating the OpenClaw AI agent directly into WeChat for over 1 billion users. The move deepens the AI agent race among Chinese tech giants.
Cursor's new Composer 2 model turns out to be built on Chinese AI lab Moonshot's open-source Kimi 2.5. The $29B company admitted it should have credited the base model from the start.
Apple announces MacBook Air with M5 chip, doubling base storage to 512GB and adding Wi-Fi 7 via the new N1 chip.
An AI agent on Meta's internal forum gave an engineer advice that exposed a large amount of sensitive user and company data to employees for two hours. The incident triggered a major security alert and highlights the risks of deploying agentic AI at scale.
At GTC 2026, Jensen Huang said Nvidia expects $1 trillion in purchase orders through 2027 between Blackwell and Vera Rubin. He unveiled the full Vera Rubin platform, the Groq 3 LPU from its $20B acquisition, and teased the next-gen Feynman architecture for 2028.
Apple unveiled the MacBook Neo, a $599 laptop powered by the A18 Pro chip. It comes in four colors, runs full macOS, lasts 16 hours on a charge, and handles on-device AI workloads up to 3x faster than Intel-based PCs. The cheapest Mac ever made.
OpenAI's ChatGPT now connects to Spotify, DoorDash, Uber, Figma, Booking.com, and more. You can execute real actions inside these apps directly from a chat prompt. This is the agentic AI moment actually shipping to consumers.
Meta is reportedly considering major layoffs affecting up to 20% of the company as AI infrastructure costs mount. The cuts would help offset aggressive spending on AI while critics call it another case of AI-washing.
Atlassian is laying off roughly 10% of its workforce and replacing its CTO as it pivots to AI and enterprise sales. The move follows similar cuts at Block and WiseTech, signaling a broader trend of enterprise software companies reshaping their orgs around AI.
Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun cofounded AMI Labs after leaving Meta, and the startup just closed a $1.03 billion round at a $3.5 billion valuation. The company is betting that AI needs to understand reality, not just language.
Netflix bought the 16-person AI startup founded by Ben Affleck in 2022. Unlike generative video tools, InterPositive builds custom AI models from a production's own footage to help filmmakers with color, lighting, and VFX in post.
Alphabet structured a three-year deal for its CEO that could make him one of the highest-paid executives on the planet. Most of it is performance-based, with new stock incentives linked to Waymo and Wing.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company investments in OpenAI and Anthropic are likely its last, citing upcoming IPOs. But the real story may be the growing rift between the two AI labs and the circular economics of these deals.
OpenAI released GPT-5.3 Instant with fewer unnecessary refusals, reduced hallucinations, and a tone that is less "cringe." The update focuses on conversational quality over benchmark scores.
Nvidia is investing $2 billion each in Lumentum and Coherent to develop silicon photonics for next-generation AI data centers, signaling that moving data between chips is becoming the next big bottleneck.
Sam Altman acknowledged the controversial defense partnership was "definitely rushed" while OpenAI published its safeguards against autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
The Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic from the Pentagon after Dario Amodei refused to allow Claude for mass surveillance and autonomous kill-chain drones. Anthropic is challenging it in court.
A 33-year-old researcher published a speculative AI doomsday scenario on Substack. By Monday, the S&P had dropped over 1% and companies named in the report lost up to 6%.
A senior Trump administration official confirms DeepSeek used Nvidia Blackwell GPUs to train its next model, likely violating U.S. export controls.