Category Archives: Tech News

Sony says it plans to raise the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles globally beginning on April 2; the PS5 will cost $650, PS5 Digital $600, and PS5 Pro $900 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Featured Podcasts Hard Fork: The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through [...]

27
Mar
Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports [...]

26
Mar
Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, [...]

25
Mar
Kleiner Perkins raised $3.5B for two new funds, allocating $1B to its 22nd early-stage fund and $2.5B to a growth-stage fund, taking its AUM to $21B+ (Caroline Hyde/Bloomberg)

Caroline Hyde / Bloomberg: Kleiner Perkins raised $3.5B for two new funds, allocating $1B to [...]

24
Mar
Sources: EA is marketing a $15B debt package to fund its $55B Saudi-led take-private deal, including nearly $700M in projected annual cost savings (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: EA is marketing a $15B debt package to fund its $55B Saudi-led take-private [...]

23
Mar
An essay on the history, theory, progress, and potential of world models, a prominent theme at Nvidia GTC 2026, co-written by General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte (Not Boring by Packy McCormick)

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s Podcast: The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI [...]

22
Mar
OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, from ~4,500 today, as it seeks to arrest Anthropic’s momentum with business customers (Financial Times)

Featured Podcasts Access: Live @ Nvidia’s nerd Super Bowl, poker takes over tech, and the [...]

21
Mar
Amazon’s ZeroOne team is developing “Transformer”, a phone that syncs up with Alexa; it would be Amazon’s first smartphone since its 2014 Fire Phone (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Featured Podcasts Hard Fork: ‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing The [...]

20
Mar
Deeptune, which builds high-fidelity reinforcement learning environments that simulate professional workflows for AI agents, raised a $43M Series A led by a16z (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Deeptune, which builds high-fidelity reinforcement learning environments that simulate professional [...]

19
Mar
The EU unveils EU Inc., a single bloc-wide incorporation regime that it says takes 48 hours, to help European startups compete with US and Chinese rivals (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

Featured Podcasts Channels with Peter Kafka: How to Survive without Google: People Inc’s Playbook Media [...]

18
Mar