Fourteen and a half years passed before Jason Alexander finally apologized. On Wednesday, the “Seinfeld” actor publicly apologized to Courtney Stodden for a “comedy” skit the two filmed together in which Alexander, who was 52 at the time, fondled 17-year-old Stodden’s breasts with a cell phone and told her that when she turned 18, he
Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to cut off access to open-source Chinese AI models or risk crippling the next generation of American startups. On Wednesday, the newly formed Little Tech Association sent letters to President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and other members
Anthropic jumped to a revenue rate of $47 billion in May, up from $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the Internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led Anthropic’s $500 million Series
Google parent company Alphabet has seen its business continue to grow in recent months, but rising spending on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure has put excess cash into negative territory. The company’s free cash flow, the cash it held after paying for operations and investments, hit negative $5.9bn (£4.3bn) for the first time in at least
French animation and visual effects company STIM, whose credits include “The Wild Robot,” “The Garfield Movie” and “Coyote vs. Acme,” is opening a production center in Spain’s Canary Islands, with plans to create more than 100 jobs as it expands its European operations. STIM Tenerife will begin operations in August and expects to employ 60
Tesla has some numbers to tout its progress on Robotaxi. CEO Elon Musk and other executives said during Tesla’s second-quarter earnings conference call Wednesday that the company continues to expand its autonomous ride-sharing platform, adding more cities and more unattended rides. Since Tesla first launched Robotaxi in June 2025 with a small fleet of Model
