Universal Music Group x Bill Ackman.

The billionaire investor is offering to take over the world’s biggest music company (and home to artists like Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar) through his hedge fund. The deal for UMG is valued at ...

Anthropic has signed a big AI infrastructure deal with Google and Broadcom.

The “multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity” are expected to come online beginning in 2027 to “power our frontier Claude models.” The company also says that its run-rate revenue has ...

NASA’s Orion spacecraft has reached its maximum distance from Earth: 252,756 miles.

After setting a new distance record and going behind the Moon, the Artemis II crew has now gone as far away from Earth as ...

Google has launched a free, offline AI dictation app that will automatically polish your speech.

Google AI Edge Eloquent is a new live AI transcription app that requires no subscription and has no usage limits. When you ...

Wisconsin governor says ‘no’ to age checks for porn

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers vetoed a bill that would’ve required residents to verify their age before accessing porn sites, ...

Artemis II astronauts break a record, name a crater

A few minutes before 2PM Eastern on Monday, the crew of Artemis II broke a record set 56 years ago by the ill-fated Apollo 13 ...

Apple isn’t giving up on its App Store fight with Epic just yet.

The iPhone maker plans to ask the Supreme Court to review a December 2025 ruling that found Apple in contempt by imposing a 27 percent fee on external in-app payments, according to a new legal filing.

Bluesky has had some issues today.

Outage reports have gone up and down on Downdetector today, and my feed occasionally hasn’t loaded. Bluesky says the issue, which it blamed on an upstream service provider, “appears” to have been ...

US appeals court rules New Jersey can’t regulate Kalshi.

According to the ruling, New Jersey regulators can’t ban Kalshi from allowing users in the state to bet on sporting events, as Reuters reports: > “A lower-court judge had sided with New York-based ...

Artemis II crew sets the record.

Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen have surpassed Apollo 13’s record for the greatest distance a human mission has traveled away from Earth, > NASA Flight Director Brandon ...

Robotaxi companies won’t say how often remote operators intervene

Autonomous vehicle companies are refusing to disclose key details about their use of remote assistance teams, including how ...

More open source AI models from Meta, though not right away.

Meta will “eventually” offer open source versions of its new AI models Alexandr Wang is in charge of, but first, the company “wants to keep some pieces proprietary and to ensure they don’t add new ...