Moloco, an AI-driven advertising technology company, is reportedly in early talks for an initial public offering. The firm was valued at over $2 billion in a 2023 secondary sale and has been profitable for five years. This comes as the IPO market shows signs of renewed life.
In a major strategic pivot, Blue Origin is pausing all flights of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle. The company says the halt will last “not less than two years” as it redirects focus to its lunar lander program for NASA.
Anthropic is expanding its new Cowork tool with plugins designed to automate specialized tasks across a company. The feature, now available to all paying Claude users, aims to capture more enterprise business by streamlining department-specific work.
Private markets have raised nearly $230 billion for energy transition funds over the past decade, with giants like Blackstone and Brookfield leading the charge. Yet, a staggering $92 billion remains undeployed, highlighting a gap between fundraising and actual project investment.
The Linux kernel’s ublk driver, which lets userspace programs create virtual block devices, is getting a significant new feature. A patchset introduces batch I/O processing to drastically cut overhead and boost throughput.
America’s fast-charging network grew by 30% last year, adding over 18,000 new ports. This building spree comes just as EV sales are losing steam, creating a fascinating market disconnect.
Google has launched Project Genie, an AI experiment from DeepMind that lets users create interactive virtual worlds. Available now to U.S. Google AI Ultra subscribers for $249.99/year, it’s being pitched as a step toward AGI.
A new specification is coming this summer to add the Brotli compression filter to PDFs. This long-overdue change aims to combat ballooning file sizes but will require updates to every single PDF processor and reader.
A new survey from the Game Developers Conference paints a brutal picture of the industry. With mass layoffs continuing, developer morale is shattered, and students are losing hope.
The security model for AI is broken. We’re trying to secure dynamic, autonomous agents with tools built for static human users, and the attack surface is exploding. The conversation is shifting to securing ephemeral credentials and agent-to-agent protocols.
