Future Tech
Revathy Pandian
Author
Instacart's AI assistant knows what you'll cook for dinner before you've thought of it. Now it's about to start selling — with three new ad formats that turn the world's most intimate shopping data into the world's most targeted retail media. Fidji Simo, who built Facebook's $55B ad machine, is about to do it again, one grocery list at a time
SpaceX raised $86 billion in the biggest IPO in history — and days later, it's preparing to issue $20 billion in bonds to refinance the bridge loan taken out to acquire xAI. The AI arms race comes with a price tag. Even a $2 trillion company isn't immune.,
StackAdapt just eliminated its minimum spend for ChatGPT ads entirely. Criteo slashed its threshold from $50,000 to $10,000. The ChatGPT ad price war is on — and brands are the ones winning.,
The Fed held rates and opened the door to a hike. The Nasdaq surged 1.9% anyway. Oil crashed to $74. Semiconductors hit record highs. The market just told the Fed: we don't believe you.
James Burrows, the legendary director who co-created Cheers and helmed over 1,000 episodes of television — including Friends, Will & Grace, and the pilots of The Big Bang Theory — has died at 85. He taught America how to laugh. His 11 Emmys tell only half the story.,
In under four months, a single group — likely a loose-knit crew of teenagers — injected malicious code into more than 1,000 open-source packages, compromised 1,000+ cloud environments, stole 500,000 credentials, and breached GitHub itself. The open-source trust model may never be the same
Jio Platforms filed for a ₹37,700-crore IPO on Friday — the largest in Indian history. A fresh issue of 27 crore shares, Meta and Google hold 17.7%, and the next generation of Ambanis is leading the charge. The Jio genie is out of the bottle.,
India blocked Telegram for 150 million users over exam cheating. Within hours, Proton VPN registrations spiked 150%. Within a day, they jumped another 120%. The government didn't just restrict access — it created the most effective VPN ad campaign in Indian history