Technology

Stripe plans to test a stablecoin payments product aimed at companies outside the US, the UK, and the EU, using tech from Bridge, which Stripe acquired recently (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)

April 26, 2025 by appcompact

Watching OpenAI's o3 guess a photo's location feels surreal, dystopian, and entertaining, including running Python code to examine details like license plates (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

April 26, 2025 by appcompact

Sources: ~300 London-based DeepMind staff sought to unionize with the CWU in recent weeks, to challenge AI sales to defense groups and Google's ties to Israel (Financial Times)

April 26, 2025 by appcompact

a16z, which owns ~20% of Deel, a stake worth $2.5B+, is advising Deel in fighting Rippling, whose CEO Parker Conrad said a16z pushed him out of Zenefits in 2016 (The Information)

April 26, 2025 by appcompact

US v. Google: Chrome General Manager Parisa Tabriz testified that only Google can run Chrome, given the browser's "interdependencies" on other parts of Google (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

April 26, 2025 by appcompact

Q&A with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on Motorola partnership, Perplexity's upcoming browser Comet, TikTok bid, ChatGPT's scale, Google's DOJ trial, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)

April 26, 2025 by appcompact

A look at efforts by Apple and others to become carbon neutral by investing in eucalyptus farms in Brazil's Cerrado region, amid skepticism from some ecologists (Gregory Barber/MIT Technology Review)

April 26, 2025 by appcompact

Symbiotic, which is building a "universal staking" platform after starting as a restaking protocol on Ethereum, raised a $29M Series A led by Pantera Capital (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

April 26, 2025 by appcompact