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OpenAI delays its IPO to 2027 to protect a $1 trillion valuation. With mounting losses and government-mandated rollouts, the AI giant’s path to Wall Street stalls. OpenAI just signaled a major shift in its path to Wall Street. The company now leans toward delaying its initial public offering until 2027. This decision follows advice from bankers who fear that market volatility could sour retail investor appetite for another massive AI listing. Sam Altman holds the line on valuation. Advisers offered a choice: go public sooner with a lower valuation or wait until 2027 to hit the company’s target. Altman labeled…
Swati KhandelwalJun 26, 2026Secure Messaging / Social Engineering The FBI and CISA have updated their March warning about Russian intelligence phishing Signal accounts, and the operators have added a step: they now coax targets into handing over their Signal Backup Recovery Key. Hand it over once, and the attacker can restore the account’s backup, read the private and group message history, and take over the account. Worse, the key keeps working. Make a new account on the same phone number, and the old key can still be used against it, the advisory warns. The fix is blunt: generate a new key in…
An artist’s conception shows the Blue Moon Mark 2 lander on the lunar surface. (Blue Origin Illustration) NASA has selected proposals from 37 companies, including several with Seattle-area connections, to further its plans to establish a long-term presence on the moon and enable human exploration of Mars. The companies applied to partner with NASA under the terms of an Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity, or ACO. The selected proposals aim to develop technologies for space transportation, planetary surface operations and lunar surface infrastructure. “We are empowering American industry to become active partners in NASA’s missions to the moon, Mars and beyond,”…
Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown isn’t over just yet. The streaming giant is now rolling out another change that could make shared household accounts a little more cumbersome, this time by asking every profile on an account to have its own email address. While the move isn’t designed to stop families from sharing a subscription, it does add another layer of identity verification that many users probably weren’t asking for. Netflix wants every profile to have its own identity As spotted first by CordCuttersNews, Netflix has begun introducing profile-specific email addresses, allowing each user on a shared household account to link their…
There are two areas of human endeavor where security and performance has improved dramatically during the last hundred years, with a pace that does not seem to be slowing down significantly: Aviation and Medicine.A powerful reason for the advances in medicine is the use of evidence-based practices, since the 90s, while aviation uses a system whereas both accidents and close calls are thoroughly investigated and the lessons learnt applied across the aviation industry with very little regard for politics, convenience or stepping on sensitive toes. Both endeavours are as complex, if not more, than cybersecurity, and they have shown how…
Most people leave chargers plugged in when they aren’t being used to juice up phones, but is this a good idea? It’s convenient, sure, but it may leave you wondering if these chargers continue to draw electricity from the outlet even when their phones aren’t charging. Short answer? Yes, but things are a bit more complicated. Do chargers use electricity when not charging? Yes, chargers will draw electricity when plugged into an outlet, even when not charging a device. These devices pull a small amount of electricity when plugged in, which is typically referred to as “standby power.” The transformers…
David Autor, the Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, has been named head of the Department of Economics, effective July 1.“David is a world-class labor economist,” says Agustín Rayo, the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. “He is also an individual of wisdom and insight. I look forward to welcoming him to the school’s leadership team.”Autor’s scholarship explores the labor-market impacts of technological change and globalization on job polarization, skill demands, earnings levels and inequality, and electoral outcomes. He serves as faculty co-director of the James M. and Cathleen…
There are tons of great outdoor security cameras, but my favorite floodlight security camera outshines them all. It combines a clever dual-lens camera design with two bright light panels capable of illuminating your backyard or driveway. It can also track suspicious characters and record locally, so there’s no need for a subscription. It occasionally drops in price, but it’s currently at the cheapest price I’ve ever seen it.For alternative discounts, try our Absolute Best Prime Day Deals roundup, Best Tech Deals, or our Prime Day live blog for handpicked highlights from the sale.There’s some kind of spotlight on most outdoor…
The NotePin S AI wearable, seen here on the wrist of CNET’s Katie Collins, could be really useful for my job. And it’s on sale for Prime Day. Andrew Lanxon/CNETI took over the role of CNET’s editorial leader earlier this year, and while I’ve participated in Prime Day sales as a TV reviewer and general deals editor here for (literally) decades, this is my first Prime Day as EIC. In case you’re wondering what purchases a person like me is considering this time around, here’s a sampling.iPad 11-inch A16 ($300): My artistic daughter has been asking for an iPad and…
Fast-growing world model startup Patronus AI Inc. is priming itself for even more rapid growth after raising $50 million in Series B funding today. The round was led by Greenfield Partners and saw the participation of Lightspeed Venture Partners, Notable Capital, Datadog and Samsung Ventures, and brings the company’s total amount raised to date to $70 million. Patronus AI was founded by former Meta Platforms Inc. artificial intelligence researchers Anand Kannappan and Rebecca Qian, who are on a mission to ensure that autonomous agents can be put to work reliably. They’re building the infrastructure to enable comprehensive AI agent training,…