Amid enduring investor appetite for all things quantum, another European company in the space is graduating from the private markets. Just two weeks after Finnish quantum unicorn IQM said it was going public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), its French rival Pasqal is doing the…
India PC shipments surpass pandemic peak as first-time users upgrade
India’s PC market had its strongest year on record in 2025, surpassing the surge in demand during the COVID-19 pandemic as millions of first-time buyers who purchased laptops during lockdowns began upgrading their devices. Shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations in India rose 10.2% year-over-year to 15.9 million units in…
Claude’s consumer growth surge continues after Pentagon deal debacle
Claude’s daily active users are on the rise on mobile devices, as are its new app installs, following the company’s fallout with the Pentagon. After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to allow the government to use its AI systems for mass surveillance of Americans or to power fully autonomous weapons, the AI…
Robinhood’s startup fund stumbles in NYSE debut
Retail investors are famously locked out of the startup world. Robinhood is attempting to change that by allowing the general public to invest in a portfolio of what it calls “some of the most exciting private companies operating today.” To do this, the company that pioneered the commission-free brokerage model…
Anthropic’s Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks
In a recent security partnership with Mozilla, Anthropic found 22 separate vulnerabilities in Firefox — 14 of them classified as “high-severity.” Most of the bugs have been fixed in Firefox 148 (the version released this February), although a few fixes will have to wait for the next release. Anthropic’s team…
Your smart TV has many useful ports, but this isn’t one of them
Smart TVs are packed with more ports than you know what to do with. HDMI outnumbers them all, and that’s because most of your devices use that format these days. If you don’t have modern equipment, you might still get some use out of some of these older ports. Quite…
Life EV officially owns Rad Power Bikes now
Life Electric Vehicles Holdings, also known as Life EV, officially owns the intellectual property, inventory, and certain operating assets of Rad Power Bikes. Life EV acquired Rad Power for $13.2 million. Rad Power Bikes, a buzzy electric bike company that raised nearly $330 million in venture capital, filed for Chapter…
Nintendo sues the US government for a refund on tariffs
Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government on Friday over its extraction of tariffs from global businesses. The gaming giant is seeking a refund for any duties it paid due to President Donald Trump’s executive orders that invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). This lawsuit, filed in…
Microsoft just removed one of the only Copilot features I liked
Microsoft is notorious for thinking up a brilliant idea, only to unceremoniously trash it before it has the chance to find its footing in the market (see Windows Subsystem for Android, Windows Mixed Reality, Surface Duo, and any number of other entries listed on the non-official Killed by Microsoft website).…
X is testing a new ad format that connects posts with products
X is testing a new ad format that inserts a recommendation directly underneath a post that references the company or its products. The initial test, spotted by an X user in Europe, displayed a suggestion to “Get Starlink” beneath a post from a user that said Starlink’s satellite service works…