More than 100 employees at Google DeepMind have signed an internal letter urging the company’s leadership to reject military contracts with the Pentagon, reigniting a debate that has simmered inside the tech giant for nearly a decade. The letter, first reported by The New York Times, represents the latest and most organized pushback from within

When Elon Musk founded xAI in the spring of 2023, he assembled what many considered a dream team of artificial intelligence researchers — veterans pulled from the ranks of Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Microsoft Research, and the University of Toronto. The company’s stated mission was ambitious: to understand the true nature of the universe. Less than

In the spring of 2025, as the media industry convulsed through a historic wave of consolidation, Netflix found itself at the center of two of the most consequential deal discussions in entertainment history. The streaming giant, flush with cash and emboldened by its dominant market position, held serious conversations about acquiring both Warner Bros. Discovery

For years, the prevailing wisdom in nutritional science has held that plant-based diets offer a protective shield against many forms of cancer. Now, a provocative new study is challenging that assumption head-on, suggesting that vegan diets may actually be associated with an increased risk of colon cancer — a finding that has sent shockwaves through

Block Inc., the financial technology company led by co-founder Jack Dorsey, has told employees it will not increase its overall headcount through at least the end of 2026, imposing a broad hiring freeze even as it aggressively recruits senior artificial intelligence engineers. The move signals a dramatic strategic pivot for the company behind Square and

The proposed merger between Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery — a deal that would reshape the American entertainment industry and create a content colossus valued at roughly $30 billion — faces a formidable and perhaps unexpected obstacle: California Attorney General Rob Bonta. While Wall Street dealmakers and Hollywood executives have spent months hammering out

For decades, NASA’s Mars exploration program has been the crown jewel of American planetary science — a sustained campaign of orbiters, landers, and rovers that has fundamentally reshaped humanity’s understanding of the Red Planet. But a recently surfaced internal document suggests that the agency’s next major Mars mission may be driven less by scientific ambition

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