Europe’s Ariane 64 completes first commercial mission for Amazon
Europe’s Ariane 64 rocket launched 32 satellites for Amazon’s Leo broadband constellation from Kourou, French Guiana, at 16:45 UTC on Wednesday, reaching low-Earth orbit in one hour and 54 minutes...
Russia blocks WhatsApp nationwide impacting 100 million users
Russian authorities blocked WhatsApp nationwide, impacting up to 100 million users, by removing the app from an online directory that erased it from Russia’s internet, according to the Financial Tim...
Ring cancels surveillance partnership with Flock Safety
Ring canceled its partnership with surveillance company Flock Safety, announced in October 2025, because the integration required more time and resources than anticipated. The mutual decision occurred...
OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark for ultra-fast real-time coding
On Thursday, OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a lightweight version of its agentic coding tool Codex, which the company launched earlier this month. Powered by Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine 3 ch...
Spotify’s best coders are letting Claude Code do the work
During Spotify’s fourth-quarter earnings call, co-CEO Gustav Söderström stated that the company’s best developers have not written a single line of code since December, attributing this to AI to...
YouTube launches dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro
YouTube has launched a dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro two years after the headset’s debut. Initially, the company directed users to access content through Safari via a web-based method, promptin...
Anthropic secures $30B in Series G funding round
Anthropic announced a $30 billion Series G fundraising round on Thursday, raising its valuation to $380 billion from $183 billion in its prior Series F round. Singaporean wealth fund GIC and investmen...
IBM to triple entry level hiring in the US by 2026
IBM plans to triple entry-level hiring in the United States in 2026, according to Bloomberg reporting. Nickle LaMoreaux, IBM’s chief human resource officer, announced the initiative at Charter’s L...
