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Some may have scratched their heads Tuesday morning when news broke that Meta had acquired Maltbook, a social network for AI agents. What on earth does Meta, an ad-supported company, want from a social network whose users are bots? After all, bots are not the target users of brand marketers and advertisers. Meta doesn’t say much. The only official comment was a short statement that the Moltbook team will join the Meta Superintelligence Lab, opening up “new ways for AI agents to work with people and businesses.” Reading between the lines, this was an acquisition. A network built for bots…

Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder of Atlassian, Sydney, Australia, December 6, 2023. Lisa Marie Williams Bloomberg | Getty Imagesatlassian announced Wednesday that it will cut 10% of its workforce, or about 1,600 jobs, in a restructuring effort after its stock price plummeted due to the development of artificial intelligence. “We are doing this to self-fund further investments in AI and enterprise sales while strengthening our financial profile,” CEO Mike Cannon-Brooks said in a blog post. He said employees will be notified of their status via email. Atlassian has lost more than half its value this year as software stocks fell broadly on…

Eyeliner is back, baby! This versatile makeup product can make your eyelashes look fuller and make your eyes stand out. Depending on how you use it, you can make your eyes look bigger or add a smoky, sexy element. And while everyone should have their trusty holy grail eyeliner (I’ve personally been using the sub-$5 Wet ‘n’ Wild liquid liner for years), different types of eyeliner serve different purposes, so you might want to consider having a few on hand to ensure you can create a variety of eye looks. A creamy, blendable eyeliner allows you to easily create a…

WordPress publishing software can now run entirely in a web browser, the organization that develops open source publishing software announced Wednesday. Through a new service called my.WordPress.net, WordPress software allows users to set up a site and start publishing without signing up, setting up a hosting plan, or registering a domain. Instead, the new solution leverages the same technology that powers WordPress Demo and makes it available as a permanent self-publishing platform. There are major caveats when running WordPress this way. Sites set to my.WordPress.net are private by default and cannot be accessed from the public internet. A blog post…

A sign is posted in front of Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ world headquarters in Boston.brian snyder reutervertex pharmaceuticals The company said its investigational drug for a rare kidney disease has passed a successful Phase 3 trial. This is an important step for the company to diversify beyond its flagship drug for cystic fibrosis. The Boston-based drug company announced Monday that its immunoglobulin A nephropathy drug pobetacicept reduced levels of markers of autoimmune conditions by 52% in a late-stage trial. This exceeded the threshold that analysts had set for Vertex’s drug to compete with a recently approved treatment from Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceuticals and…

Vibe-coding sensation Replit has reached a new funding milestone. The company announced Wednesday that it has raised $400 million in Series D funding at a valuation of $9 billion, led by previous investor Georgian Partners. Other participating investors include G Squared, Prysm Capital, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Accenture Ventures, Okta Ventures, and Databricks Ventures. Founder and CEO Amjad Massad also said in a post on X that backers include angel investors Shaquille O’Neal and Jared Leto. This follows the $3 billion valuation the company achieved when it raised $250 million in September. At the time, Replit said…

Meta’s 5 GW Hyperion data center under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, January 9, 2026.Courtesy of Metameta on Wednesday announced four custom in-house chips tailored for artificial intelligence-related tasks as part of the company’s massive data center expansion plans.This specialized silicon is part of the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) family of chips, first made available to the public in 2023, with a second-generation version announced in 2024. Yee Jiun Song, Meta’s vice president of engineering, told CNBC that it will be manufactured by designing a custom chip. taiwan semiconductorthe social media giant can drive up the price per…

Nicole Kidman is speaking out about the small big changes in her life. Oscar-winning actress Keith Urban spoke publicly for the first time after finalizing their divorce in January after 19 years of marriage, admitting that she is “okay”. “I am, because I’m always moving in a positive direction,” she told Variety on March 11. “What I’m grateful for is keeping my family and them where they are and moving forward. That’s it. I don’t talk about anything else out of respect.” As Nicole emphasized, she remains focused on raising her two daughters, Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14.…

The International Energy Agency will convene an extraordinary meeting of member states on Tuesday to discuss the possibility of releasing oil reserves to deal with supply disruptions caused by the Iran war. IEA Director-General Fatih Birol said in a statement that more than 30 member states will “assess the current security of supply and market conditions to inform subsequent decisions on whether to make emergency stocks (…) available to the market.” IEA member countries are primarily developed countries in North America, Europe, and Northeast Asia. Together they hold approximately 1.2 billion barrels of oil. An additional 600 million barrels are…

oracle Shares rose 9% on Wednesday after the company reported strong third-quarter results and assured analysts it has no plans to raise additional debt beyond what it has already announced in 2026.”While investing in AI infrastructure is capital-intensive, our operating model is optimized for profitability,” CEO Clayton Magouik said on Tuesday’s earnings call.Hyperscalers are skeptical of financing measures to fund data center construction. The company announced last month that it plans to raise up to $50 billion in bonds and equity in 2026 and has no plans to issue additional bonds.Magouik spoke on a conference call with analysts about the…