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Flapping Airplanes, a one-year-old AI lab, announced a $1 billion Series A round co-led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital at a reported $6 billion valuation. The raise follows a $180 million seed round nine months earlier that had valued the company at $1.5 billion, with Sequoia, GV and Kleiner Perkins returning as investors alongside new backers including Nvidia.
A QR code hides its destination until you have already opened it. susQR is a free web tool that checks the link first, and it is worth keeping one tap away.
IBM reported third-quarter adjusted earnings of $2.95 per share on revenue of $17.10 billion, both ahead of analyst expectations. Net income rose to $2.19 billion from $1.74 billion a year earlier, with software revenue up 8% to $7.80 billion. IBM also raised its full-year free cash flow guidance to an increase of more than $1 billion, up from the roughly $1 billion improvement it had forecast in July.
An agent is a language model given tools and a loop. That single design choice explains both why agents can finish real work and why they fail in ways a chatbot never could.
Researchers analyzing the mysterious Voynich Manuscript have concluded that its current page sequence is probably incorrect, based on physical and structural evidence in the document. The finding implies that the binding or arrangement seen today does not reflect the manuscript's original order.
Quishing works because a QR code gives you nothing to judge before you commit. Here is what the scams look like in practice and the habits that defuse them.
A new report indicates that Lauren LeFranc, showrunner of 'The Penguin,' may join the in-development 'Poison Ivy' series as a producer. Details on her exact role and the project's broader status remain unconfirmed.
A new router upgrades the link between your devices and the router. Almost nothing people complain about lives on that link, which is why the box rarely delivers the numbers on it.
Meta reported record third-quarter revenue of $64.6 billion and announced plans for a stock split alongside the creation of a new class of shares intended to help finance its artificial intelligence investments. The company said the new share class will not alter Mark Zuckerberg's existing voting control.
A judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties after a Santa Fe jury found the company violated the state's Unfair Practices Act with misleading statements about user privacy, data handling and content moderation. The jury had identified 43 million violations, which could have totaled roughly $219 billion at maximum penalty rates, but Judge Francis Mathew set the final figure at $25 billion, below the state's $35-40 billion request and above Meta's proposed $3.45 billion cap. Meta says it will appeal, and the funds, which accrue 15 percent annual interest until paid, are earmarked for New Mexico's school system.
A new opinion piece argues that Donald Trump's once-vaunted media savvy has eroded, citing his incoherent public appearances, the five-day tenure of press secretary Katie Zacharia after a botched briefing, and a low-profile Small Business Administration broadcast modeled on a reality-TV pitch competition. The SBA special featured business owners pitching to judges including Grant Cardone, Nicki Minaj, and Joe Gebbia in an apparent bid to mimic Trump's old Apprentice format.
Tesla said it has started manufacturing production-quality units of its Optimus humanoid robot at its Fremont, California plant, previously used solely for EV assembly. The announcement came alongside third-quarter results showing flat revenue of $28.04 billion and net income of $787 million, down 43% year-over-year, as spending on AI and robotics surged.