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SpaceX is holding a secondary share sale that may value it at $800 billion. The company is also weighing a potential initial public offering in 2026. SpaceX investors have been waiting for an IPO for years. The company has grown into an essential service for the US government. It also provides broadband internet around the world.

Netflix outmaneuvered Paramount to buy Warner Bros. in a deal that may change Hollywood forever. The deal still needs to pass regulatory scrutiny before it can pass, and there is plenty of opposition against the deal. Paramount could still launch a hostile bid. This article tells the story of the acquisition based on conversations with more than a dozen individuals directly involved in the process.

Max Hodak co-founded Neuralink with Elon Musk in 2016. He served as its president and essentially ran day-to-day operations. In 2021, he left and co-founded Science Corp., a brain-computer interface company that aims to build technologies that can reshape human consciousness. Its first product is a procedure that restores 'form vision' to people with advanced macular degeneration through a rice grain-sized computer chip implanted directly in the retina.

Zanskar is a company that uses advanced AI models to prospect for geothermal sites. Its AI models recently discovered a massive underground heat source in western Nevada. This is the third such finding in Zanskar's short life. AI prospecting appears to be a game-changer for geothermal energy, a market that many had previously written off because finding heat sources was so challenging.

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Developers find it difficult to estimate. A lot of the time, it can be difficult to see why the estimate is even important. Product owners see estimates as a crucial piece of the puzzle that helps in planning the short and long-term life cycle of a product. It is best to work in a way that allows developers to be transparent and continuously communicate updated estimates as development progresses.

AI can generate code really fast, but that code still needs to be reviewed. Automated PR tools can help, but they're not sufficient. This article presents a workflow that can cut the time it takes to review AI-generated PRs significantly. The workflow uses AI to summarize changes and identify potential issues while allowing the developer to stay in control of the final output.

ZTE's Nubia M153 is a smartphone that runs ByteDance's DoubaoAI agent at the OS level. The agent has complete control over the phone. It can see the UI, choose/download apps, tap/type, make calls, and run multi-step task chains. The Doubao model is a massive, sparse Mixture of Experts model with full text and vision support. This thread contains several videos that show what the phone is capable of.

Bitcoin will probably hit a million one day, but that is irrelevant to the financial games the industry is churning out. The industry mentality is incredibly toxic and will likely lead to the long-term collapse of social mobility for the younger generation. It is up to us to find the courage to resist the pull of worthless games. Sometimes, it is better to be right than to make money.

Hint: It's not the models. According to 500+ leaders, it's using AI in silos. 75% say current tools focus too much on individual productivity. Get your copy from Miro

Some younger workers have decided to spend more time in the office due to feelings of isolation, a desire for more mentoring and feedback, and to improve the odds of a promotion.

GPT-5.2 could help OpenAI close the gap created after Gemini 3's strong debut.

TikTok's Nearby Feed is only being rolled out to a select few countries for now, including France, Germany, Italy, and the UK.

Johny Srouji, senior vice president of hardware technologies and one of Apple's most respected executives, recently told Tim Cook that he is seriously considering leaving in the near future.

X was fined about $140 million for violating the Digital Services Act.

Answering the binding problem will require advanced neural interfaces that allow scientists to experimentally access the brain to run experiments.