Топ-10 технологий на 2025-11-19
1. Steam Machine and Steam Frame: your questions answered
Описание: Valve is making a game console that might take on Sony and Microsoft. It’s also making a gaming headset to compete with Meta. These are big, ambitious, and messy efforts, and we have lots of questions. So do you! We’ve gotten a lot of questions about Valve’s …
2. A16z-backed super PAC is targeting Alex Bores, sponsor of New York’s AI safety bill. He says bring it on.
Описание: A super PAC backed by Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI, and other tech leaders has targeted New York Assembly member Alex Bores’ congressional campaign, marking its first attack against a lawmaker supporting AI regulation.
3. Google is fighting the defamation battle Meta caved on
Описание: Google filed a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by anti-corporate diversity activist Robby Starbuck, who claimed Google’s AI falsely associated him with sexual assault allegations and a white nationalist. Starbuck’s claims against Google came af…
4. OpenAI is finally letting employees donate their equity to charity
Описание: Current and former OpenAI employees have grown increasingly frustrated by the fact that the company hasn’t allowed them to donate their equity to charity in years. But OpenAI has finally seemed to bow to pressure, sending out an email from the company’s equit…
5. The 4 Things You Need for a Tech Bubble
Описание: On this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” guest Brian Merchant walks us through a historical framework he used to analyze whether AI fits the classic signs of an economic bubble—and what that means for all of us.
6. Google updates its weather forecasts with a new AI model
Описание: Google debuted a new and improved AI weather model today that will be incorporated into popular products like Search, Gemini, and Pixel phones. The company’s AI-enhanced forecasts have proven themselves to be quite accurate so far. AI weather models have als…
7. Valar Atomics Says It’s the First Nuclear Startup to Achieve Criticality
Описание: A Trump administration pilot program aims for three nuclear startups to reach a key milestone by July 4, 2026. Valar Atomics says it’s the first to do so—but it had some help.
8. How Jeffrey Epstein used SEO to bury news about his crimes
Описание: On December 11th, 2010, Jeffrey Epstein was fretting about what came up if you Googled him. By this time Epstein had already pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution with a child and was a registered sex offender, and just a few days earlier he had been phot…
9. Ramp hits $32B valuation, just three months after hitting $22.5B | TechCrunch
Описание: In 2025 alone, Ramp has leapt from being worth $13 billion to $32 billion with new rounds every few months.
10. Your online reservations are telling restaurants all about you
Описание: Are you a red wine drinker? A high spender? Or perhaps you’re a slow eater, the sort who takes up a restaurant’s table for longer than they’d like. You might not even know - but OpenTable does. Those are just a few of the notes that the reservation platform h…