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SpaceX has announced its first major acquisition after a record-breaking IPO.Elon Musk’s rocket company said in a Tuesday filing that it had exercised its option to buy the AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, after the two companies struck a deal earlier this year.SpaceX said the merger with Cursor…
A little over six months ago, Toptal CEO Taso Du Val told Business Insider he believed in what he called an 80/20 model: 80% remote work and 20% in-person work at quarterly off-sites.Now, that 80-20 ratio means something different to him: 80% of the workforce can be fully remote and…
Not everyone sees the same prices on Uber and Lyft, according to a new study.The rideshare apps appear to price trips differently — even when riders request the same route at the same exact minute, a new investigation from Consumer Reports found.The results, published Tuesday, show “that Uber and Lyft…
Sometimes, the US government’s concerns that a powerful new tech product could fall into the wrong hands can be a marketing opportunity. Just look at Steve Jobs and Apple back in 1999.In August of that year, Jobs, who was then Apple’s interim-CEO, took the stage to unveil the company’s new…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with David Selinger, the 48-year-old CEO of Deep Sentinel, based in Pleasanton, California. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I went to Stanford but didn’t finish my degree, so I went back in 2000 to finish. In 2002, I got hired at…
The next wave of AI needs your photos, receipts, and emails to get smarter. One startup wants to help you get paid for it, and it’s on a corporate shopping spree.AI training startup Mode Inc has acquired two consumer applications, bringing its total buyouts in the past year to seven.The…
Seth Rogen says he and his wife, Lauren Miller Rogen, aren’t the same people they were when they fell in love in their 20s — and yet their relationship still works.On Saturday’s episode of “The Interview” podcast, Rogen spoke about his latest film, “The Invite,” in which he plays a…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Charlie Fang, 31, who works for an American tech company in China as a strategic partner manager. Fang left the US in 2024 after three failed attempts to obtain an H-1B visa.His words have been edited for length and clarity.I grew…
Three thousand feet above the fields of Zaporizhzhia, a recon drone watches over a deserted village. Its target: a trio of houses surrounded by trees, tucked into a corner of the settlement.All looks quiet until a winged drone flashes into view, skimming over the grass. Built like a small plane,…
Australian mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has made a major bet on Elon Musk’s SpaceX that could lead to more than just a financial return.Rinehart — Australia’s richest person with a fortune estimated at $38.4 billion by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — invested through Hancock Prospecting, her privately held mining and…
