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Launching thousands of satellites takes years. Buying a company that already has satellites in orbit, government permissions to operate them, and an established customer base takes considerably less time. That shortcut is what Amazon is paying roughly $11.57 billion for, after recently signing a merger agreement with satellite company Globalstar. The deal is expected to close in 2027, pending regulatory approval. Amazon wants to use Globalstar’s satellites and radio frequency licenses to add a direct-to-direct feature to its satellite internet service, Amazon Leo. Direct-to-device allows satellites to connect directly to smartphones without needing a separate router or terminal. This means…

Meta has raised the prices of its Quest VR headsets in the United States, effective April 19. The Quest 3S (128GB) now costs $349.99, up from $299.99; the Quest 3S (256GB) moves from $399.99 to $449.99, and the flagship Quest 3 (512GB) goes from $499.99 to $599.99, a $100 jump. The new prices cover both new and refurbished units. However, accessories are not affected. Meta explained the decision in a blog post, saying the cost of building high-performance VR hardware has risen significantly. The company pointed specifically to a global surge in the price of memory chips, which it said…

OpenAI currently holds the record for the largest private funding round in startup history, and it got there by breaking its own record. The ChatGPT-maker recently closed a $122 billion round at a $852 billion valuation, surpassing the $40 billion raise it completed just 12 months earlier, which was itself the largest single investment ever recorded at the time. No private company has ever reached this $122 billion figure. And despite this massive achievement, one would expect OpenAI to be on the track to profitability. But that is not the case. Deutsche Bank has projected that the company will lose…

Meta has built an AI that can predict how your brain responds to sound, music, and speech, without scanning your brain, without studying you personally, and without your knowledge that it is doing so. On March 26, 2026, Meta’s AI research division released TRIBE v2, a model trained to predict brain activity in response to audio, images, and language. The model was built using brain scans from more than 700 healthy volunteers who were shown and played a range of media including images, podcasts, videos, and text. Meta also made everything public, releasing the model, the code behind it, the…

OpenAI has released a new AI model built specifically for cybersecurity professionals. The model, called GPT-5.4-Cyber, is a modified version of its existing GPT-5.4 model fine-tuned specifically for defensive cybersecurity work. It comes as a major expansion of the company’s Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program, which now covers thousands of verified individual defenders and hundreds of teams responsible for defending critical software. What GPT-5.4-Cyber Actually Does The most significant thing GPT-5.4-Cyber can do is analyze software that has already been compiled into machine code, without needing to see the original source code. This process is called binary reverse engineering,…

Anthropic built an AI model so capable it decided the public could not have access to it. On April 7, 2026, the company announced Claude Mythos Preview alongside Project Glasswing, a controlled program that puts the model exclusively in the hands of select cybersecurity partners rather than releasing it to everyone. The system card for Mythos Preview states plainly that “Claude Mythos Preview’s large increase in capabilities has led us to decide not to make it generally available.” The move marks the first time in nearly seven years that a leading AI company has publicly withheld a frontier model over…

Car manufacturing and software development have long operated like two separate lanes on a highway. Stellantis and Microsoft are now merging them. The two companies recently announced a five-year strategic collaboration that is focused on co-developing advanced AI, cybersecurity, and engineering capabilities. The deal builds on an existing relationship and covers a wide range of the automaker’s operations. It also includes a plan to cut Stellantis’ datacenter footprint by 60% by 2029 as the automaker shifts more of its digital backbone to Microsoft Azure. Why Cybersecurity Matters Here Think of a modern-connected car the way you think of a smartphone.…

The European Commission has awarded a six-year, €180 million sovereign cloud contract to four European cloud providers, a decision built around its new Cloud Sovereignty Framework and aimed at keeping EU institutional data and services under stronger European control. The contract went to Luxembourg’s Post Telecom, Germany’s STACKIT, France’s ​Iliad’s data centre unit Scaleway, and Belgium’s Proximus. As a six-year deal, it is meant to serve EU institutions, bodies, and agencies, while pushing the market toward cloud services that comply more closely with EU laws and values. The Commission designed the tender to reduce dependence on non-European cloud infrastructure and…

South Korean AI chip startup DEEPX announced it is preparing to list its shares domestically, and the company is open to a possible U.S. listing afterward. The move comes as the global appetite for AI hardware continues to grow, and as DEEPX looks to raise the capital it needs to scale beyond its current footprint. What DEEPX Does Founded in 2018 by former Apple chip designer Lokwon Kim, DEEPX focuses on what it calls “physical AI,” meaning AI embedded directly into devices such as robots, autonomous vehicles, and factory systems. Rather than building chips for cloud-based AI workloads, the company…

In March 2021, a digital artwork by the artist Beeple sold at Christie’s for $69.3 million, making him one of the three most valuable living artists at auction. The work was a JPEG. There was no physical canvas, no sculpture, no object a buyer could hang on a wall. What the winning bidder paid for was a blockchain record confirming they owned the file. That sale became the moment NFTs broke into mainstream conversation, and for about a year, the market that followed it seemed unstoppable. Then it fell apart. What NFTs Actually Were An NFT, short for non-fungible token,…