"We’re not in hawkish or dovish land. What’s happening is yield curve management, which itself is a function of how precarious the U.S. debt picture is."
What was meant to be a breakout year, highlighted by the Philippines’ turn as ASEAN chair, has instead become a case study in how it keeps falling short.
If employer contributions had instead grown at 3%, which was the pace a few years ago, wage growth would be about 0.2-0.3 percentage points faster today.
Instagram is paying some YouTubers to bring their long videos across. It has offered select creators $50,000 to $500,000 to post long-form work to Features, its new 90-minute format. Sydney Bradley and Lucia Moses reported for Business Insider, citing people familiar with the deals. The deals are…
Gravity is a cruel mistress, slowly dragging the famed telescope ever closer to its ultimate demise with every day. Hubble is in no immediate danger of burning up in the Earth's atmosphere, but its time will run out in the early to mid 2030s unless its orbit is boosted. So NASA is taking proposals…
Hubble has no engine of its own, and it is slowly sinking. NASA now wants companies to say how they could lift the 36-year-old telescope higher, service it, or steer it down safely, the agency said on Friday. The request for information went out on 29 October, and responses are due by 30 November.…
While more cities are canceling their contracts with Flock Safety, just as many are discovering how difficult that can be in some instances. Plymouth, Minnesota's city council voted to terminate its contract with Flock in September, but failed to respond to the city's request. For over a month,…
Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI system that edits images more like a Photoshop pro. Instead of retrying the same general-purpose editor over and over, the agent picks the right specialized tool for each task and lets a standard language model choose the best result based on…
Researchers in Luxembourg put ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini on the therapist's couch and found a safety problem: a warm, empathetic conversational style is enough to make the models tell coherent stories of suffering about their own training, with scores in the moderate-to-severe range on clinical…
Google’s prototype data centre satellite has run an AI model in orbit and sent its answer back to Earth. The onboard Gemma 4 model wrote a haiku about being in space, Travis Beals, a senior director at Google, wrote in a blog post on Friday. The satellite launched on 1 October for Project…
A federal judge in Mississippi has refused to throw out the NAACP’s Clean Air Act lawsuit against xAI. The case is over the gas turbines that power its Colossus 2 data centre. Judge Debra M. Brown ruled on Friday that the turbines are not exempt from air permits as “mobile sources”. She also…
Before he built a tech empire, Dell was a teenager selling newspaper subscriptions to newlyweds he tracked down through marriage records. He says the same appetite for risk drove everything that followed.
With an IPO looming, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei—who has a net worth of $13.6 billion—has reportedly expressed concerns that AI workers are prioritizing money over mission.
Palantir was caught in Anthropic’s clash with the US Department of War, its chief technology officer, Shyam Sankar, told Ben Thompson for Stratechery, in an interview published on Thursday. Thompson noted that Anthropic’s work for the US national security system ran through Palantir, and asked…
Anthropic has renamed its two Claude Max plans and dropped the five-hour usage limit on the more expensive one. It now calls the $100-a-month Max 5x plan Max, and the $200 Max 20x plan Ultra. Prices stay the same, the company said on X on Friday. Verified Ultra accounts no longer have a limit that…
Game developers have been hitting refusals from Claude Code since late October, some on projects they say they have a right to build. Bruno Ferreira reported the complaints for Tom’s Hardware on Saturday, citing a wave of issues on Claude Code’s public GitHub tracker. TNW read the issues.…