Netflix’s ‘The Last House’ Review: Drowning In Shallow Water

‘The Last House’ is the #1 movie on Netflix right now, but here’s a review to explain why it’s not worth your time.

Sick Kids, Stalled Science: America’s Pediatric Health Funding Crisis

Pediatric health is critically underfunded, despite 1/3 of the global population being kids. But the ROI of investing in kids yields profound health and economic returns.

Joby flexes military muscle with $500 million defense acquisition
Joby flexes military muscle with $500 million defense acquisition

Joby Aviation announced it was acquiring Dayton, Ohio-based defense firm Resonant Sciences in a $500 million deal, in a bid by the electric aircraft company to expand further into the military industrial complex. Joby says it expects to finance the deal with $450 million in cash and $50 million in equity. After the deal closes, […]

A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts

Researchers devised a way to extract “reasoning traces” from Claude, GPT, and Gemini. What they found, they say, indicates that some Chinese AI may be trained on leading US models.

Amkor weighs a $1bn-plus stake sale in its China chip unit
Amkor weighs a $1bn-plus stake sale in its China chip unit

Amkor Technology, one of the world’s largest outsourced chip assembly and testing firms, is weighing a sale of a stake in its China operations, a deal that could value the unit at between $1bn and $1.5bn, according to Bloomberg. The Arizona-based compa…

Germany’s Uniper pivots to data centres with a €5bn plan to power the AI boom
Germany’s Uniper pivots to data centres with a €5bn plan to power the AI boom

Uniper, the German energy giant that Berlin rescued from collapse three years ago, is betting its next chapter on the server racks now reshaping Europe’s power market. The utility plans to invest around €5bn ($5.7bn) by 2030 in a strategy that pivots h…

Anthropic signs a $9.1bn, 20-year cloud deal with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms
Anthropic signs a $9.1bn, 20-year cloud deal with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms

Anthropic has struck another enormous deal to feed its appetite for computing power, and this time the counterparty is a company that until recently made its money digging up bitcoin. The twenty-year arrangement is worth $9.1 billion and gives the Clau…

Intel raises up to $20bn to fund its foundry bet against TSMC
Intel raises up to $20bn to fund its foundry bet against TSMC

Intel has announced a $15bn common-stock offering, a sale that could swell to as much as $20bn if underwriters take up their overallotment options. It is a bold move for a company that, not long ago, looked like a cautionary tale, and it shows just how…

Six finance giants back Nvidia’s $500bn plan to fund the AI buildout
Six finance giants back Nvidia’s $500bn plan to fund the AI buildout

Nvidia has recruited six of the largest names in finance to help turn its chips into something a bank can lend against. The company announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to build what it calls “com…

Exclusive: Vienna’s fonio.ai hits $10m ARR less than a year after switching on subscriptions
Exclusive: Vienna’s fonio.ai hits $10m ARR less than a year after switching on subscriptions

Vienna startup most of the tech world has not heard of just posted numbers that would turn heads anywhere. fonio.ai, a European platform for AI-powered customer calls, says it has surpassed $10m in annual recurring revenue in under twelve months. Since…