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Venture capital firm CRV planning to do something rare: Give money back

The reason, four of the firm's partners said in a joint interview, is that market conditions have changed for the worse

Why automotive manufacturing firm Stellantis, owner of Jeep, is struggling

In 2021, PSA merged with Fiat Chrysler, and the combined company adopted the name Stellantis

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Gladwell plays it safe with a familiar brand

Revenge of the Tipping Point is a genre-bender--self-help without practical advice and a business book without actionable insights, yet it's sure to be a success

OpenAI projects its revenue to increase to $11.6 billion next year

But it expects to lose roughly $5 billion this year after paying for costs related to running its services and other expenses like employee salaries and office rent

OpenAI's plan to make artificial intelligence flow like electricity

It was also a demonstration of the tech industry's determination to accelerate the development of a technology it claims could be as transformative as the Industrial Revolution

Spurned by social media, publishers now chase readers on WhatsApp

And some publishers are cautious about getting too enamored by Channels, Meta, which is also the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has a long and complicated history with news organisations

Jony Ive joins hands with Sam Altman for secret AI device project

Jony Ive spent hours in the neighborhood at the William Stout Architectural Books store, which had thousands of books about design, before he left the city, he knew that he wanted to return

Snyder's on freedom: A call to action amidst global tyranny and conflict

Again and again, his book returns - as Snyder has done himself - to Ukraine, where he sees the conflict between freedom and unfreedom in brutally vivid form

Lethal explosion of pagers, walkie-talkies deliver supply chain warning

Much of the world is dependent on factories in China for critical items like face masks, ingredients for critical medicines and parts for ventilators and other medical devices

How Israel built modern-day trojan horse equipped for exploding pagers

In Lebanon, as Israel picked off senior Hezbollah commandos with targeted assassinations, their leader came to a conclusion: If Israel was going high-tech, Hezbollah would go low

Inside Elon Musk's mushrooming security apparatus in Tesla factories

Musk has cultivated devil-may-care persona, travelling world, hanging out with moguls, leaders, celebrities, and smoking in public, but in private, he has barricaded himself behind armed bodyguards

Yuval Noah Harari's 'Nexus' explores AI risks and offers policy solutions

The book summarises the current state of affairs with a memorable clarity.

Live from SF: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tapes podcast with 6,000 friends

Engineers, venture capitalists, and other Silicon Valley digerati chatted as they found their seats, with Modelos and slices of pizza in hand. The anticipation was high

Polaris Dawn mission: SpaceX launches four private astronauts into space

The crew consists of billionaire Jared Isaacman, Scott Poteet, a retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel, and two SpaceX employees, Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis

It's glowtime: AI in spotlight as Apple launches GenAI-backed iPhone16

The new iPhones represent a big moment for generative AI, which can answer questions, create images and write software code

Palace coup: How Iger outmanoeuvred Chapek, returned to power at Disney

Iger's 15-year tenure as chief executive had been so successful that he had considered running for president as a Democrat. Queen Elizabeth II knighted him just before she died

Starliner creates trouble as latest setback for Boeing's space business

SpaceX has since carried out seven of those missions and will bring home the astronauts Starliner left behind, while Boeing has yet to complete one

Lindsay M Chervinsky's book explores how John Adams shaped US presidency

Chervinsky reminds us that Adams set important precedents in his failures as well as his triumphs

Japan tries to reclaim its dominance as leader of global tech industry

It has been 40 years since such competitive anxieties about a rising Asian power prompted this kind of embrace of government intervention among the biggest free-market economies

Era of free mortgages over in Japan with central bank raising interest rate

Japan's central bank had maintained benchmark interest rates near zero since the mid-1990s. As a result, many home buyers have gotten used to paying between 0.3 and 0.4 per cent