Jensen Huang’s exit from Nvidia has put a rarely discussed risk in plain view: for a CEO, a new business contact or a budding romance may come from someone more interested in the company’s secrets. “Sometimes the easiest way to penetrate a billion-dollar company is to get close to the person running it,” Eric O’Neill,
Agent management startup LangChain has raised a $300 million Series C at a $3B valuation led by CapitalG, with participation from investors including Singapore’s GIC, DFJ Growth, IVP, and Sapphire Ventures, the company announced on Friday. That’s more than double its $1.25 billion valuation when it raised $125 million about a year ago, led by IVP. LangChain
My team and I test all the latest soundbars every year, and the Sony Bravia Theater Bar 5 stands out as one of the best budget soundbars on the market. It carries an affordable price tag, includes a dedicated wireless subwoofer, and benefits from Sony’s excellent audio processing to deliver crisp, clear, and enveloping sound.
Three weeks ago, we put Apple’s new iPhone Duo on our custom foldable phone testing rig, the Fold-a-Phone, to find out how many times it could fold until it broke. It’s not fully broken yet, but the hinge has started to break down. I initially detected some looseness in the hinge motion yesterday during our
Democrats, set to take over Congress with robust majorities, will face at least one expensive obstacle to their policy agenda: a national debt that now equals the size of the U.S. economy. Clocking in at $32 trillion, this debt-to-GDP ratio of 100% would likely raise alarms for other countries. But it attracted relatively little attention
Service is gradually starting to recover for Microsoft Outlook and 365 after an almost two-day outage impacting millions of users around the world. While some apps and features are still running in a degraded state, some people (including Verge staffers) are reporting that access to their emails has been restored, though the flow of Outlook
