Share Share Share Pin Zipline just pulled in $600 million in fresh funding, putting its valuation around $7.6 billion and giving its drone delivery ambitions a lot more runway. The company plans to open operations in Houston and Phoenix early this year, then spread into at least four more US states through 2026. Unlike players that stitch together third party tools, Zipline has built a full stack setup, including logistics software, launch and landing systems, plus its own drone fleet. The co...

Share Share Share Pin Zipline just pulled in $600 million in fresh funding, putting its valuation around $7.6 billion and giving its drone delivery ambitions a lot more runway. The company plans to open operations in Houston and Phoenix early this year, then spread into at least four more US states through 2026. Unlike players that stitch together third party tools, Zipline has built a full stack setup, including logistics software, launch and landing systems, plus its own drone fleet. The co...

Share Share Share Pin OpenAI has rolled out GPT-5.2-Codex inside Codex. GPT-5.2-Codex is positioned as a step up for agentic coding that is meant to function in real production environments, not just demo notebooks. The pitch is straightforward. OpenAI says the model sets a new standard for agentic coding in real world software development and defensive cybersecurity. That framing matters because it ties code generation to higher stakes work like secure implementation, threat response, and sa...

Share Share Share Pin OpenAI has rolled out GPT-5.2-Codex inside Codex. GPT-5.2-Codex is positioned as a step up for agentic coding that is meant to function in real production environments, not just demo notebooks. The pitch is straightforward. OpenAI says the model sets a new standard for agentic coding in real world software development and defensive cybersecurity. That framing matters because it ties code generation to higher stakes work like secure implementation, threat response, and sa...

Share Share Share Pin Canada just widened its checkbook for Ukraine. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced 2.5 billion Canadian dollars in new economic aid during a brief appearance alongside President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Carney framed the package as more than a cash transfer. He said the additional support is designed to help Ukraine unlock financing from the International Monetary Fund, signaling that Ottawa wants its money to function as a catalyst for bigger, structured funding rather tha...

Share Share Share Pin Canada just widened its checkbook for Ukraine. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced 2.5 billion Canadian dollars in new economic aid during a brief appearance alongside President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Carney framed the package as more than a cash transfer. He said the additional support is designed to help Ukraine unlock financing from the International Monetary Fund, signaling that Ottawa wants its money to function as a catalyst for bigger, structured funding rather tha...

Share Share Share Pin AI tax chatbots are everywhere this filing season, but they still cannot do your taxes for you. They can draft checklists, explain jargon, and sanity check ideas. They also can hallucinate a confident answer that quietly costs you money. The appeal is obvious. A bot can feel like a patient tax pro who never gets tired of follow up questions. People are using them to prep returns, understand concepts like IRMAA, NIIT, and MAGI, and map out next year moves. Ask what docume...

Share Share Share Pin AI tax chatbots are everywhere this filing season, but they still cannot do your taxes for you. They can draft checklists, explain jargon, and sanity check ideas. They also can hallucinate a confident answer that quietly costs you money. The appeal is obvious. A bot can feel like a patient tax pro who never gets tired of follow up questions. People are using them to prep returns, understand concepts like IRMAA, NIIT, and MAGI, and map out next year moves. Ask what docume...

Share Share Share Pin Canada just turned Canola into a geopolitical headline, and the timing is not subtle. Ottawa’s fresh trade opening with Beijing is landing as a direct challenge to Washington’s preferred script on China, especially on electric vehicles. The result is a familiar Trump response: tariffs first, diplomacy later. The core of the shift is simple. Canada is allowing a defined volume of Chinese electric vehicles to enter at a 6.1 percent tariff rate, replacing the punitive 100 p...

Share Share Share Pin Canada just turned Canola into a geopolitical headline, and the timing is not subtle. Ottawa’s fresh trade opening with Beijing is landing as a direct challenge to Washington’s preferred script on China, especially on electric vehicles. The result is a familiar Trump response: tariffs first, diplomacy later. The core of the shift is simple. Canada is allowing a defined volume of Chinese electric vehicles to enter at a 6.1 percent tariff rate, replacing the punitive 100 p...

Share Share Share Pin Venezuela was jolted into chaos after Donald Trump claimed the United States carried out a major strike and that President Nicolas Maduro was captured with his wife, then taken out of the country. It was a dramatic assertion with immediate stakes, and it arrived alongside reports of blasts and disruption in the capital. Residents in Caracas described explosions in multiple areas, with some neighborhoods also reporting power outages. The details were fragmentary and fast ...

Share Share Share Pin Venezuela was jolted into chaos after Donald Trump claimed the United States carried out a major strike and that President Nicolas Maduro was captured with his wife, then taken out of the country. It was a dramatic assertion with immediate stakes, and it arrived alongside reports of blasts and disruption in the capital. Residents in Caracas described explosions in multiple areas, with some neighborhoods also reporting power outages. The details were fragmentary and fast ...

Share Share Share Pin OpenAI is putting Monitorability under a microscope with a new framework meant to measure whether a model’s reasoning can actually be watched for trouble. In a December 18, 2025 research post, the company introduced 13 evaluations spanning 24 environments to test how well monitors can infer what a reasoning model is doing from its chain of thought, instead of just judging the final answer. The core idea is simple but uncomfortable. Plenty of high stakes decisions are har...

Share Share Share Pin OpenAI is putting Monitorability under a microscope with a new framework meant to measure whether a model’s reasoning can actually be watched for trouble. In a December 18, 2025 research post, the company introduced 13 evaluations spanning 24 environments to test how well monitors can infer what a reasoning model is doing from its chain of thought, instead of just judging the final answer. The core idea is simple but uncomfortable. Plenty of high stakes decisions are har...

Share Share Share Pin ChatGPT Images just got a serious upgrade. OpenAI is rolling out a new flagship image model that promises more precise photo edits while keeping key details intact. It also claims images can generate up to four times faster, which turns waiting time into actual work time. The pitch is simple. Ask for a change and the model is more likely to change only that. Lighting, composition, and facial likeness are meant to stay consistent across edits, including follow up iteratio...

Share Share Share Pin ChatGPT Images just got a serious upgrade. OpenAI is rolling out a new flagship image model that promises more precise photo edits while keeping key details intact. It also claims images can generate up to four times faster, which turns waiting time into actual work time. The pitch is simple. Ask for a change and the model is more likely to change only that. Lighting, composition, and facial likeness are meant to stay consistent across edits, including follow up iteratio...

Share Share Share Pin QIA just gave Goldman Sachs a very large vote of confidence in Doha. Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund and Goldman Sachs Asset Management signed a memorandum of understanding that sets a target of up to $25 billion in commitments through Goldman managed vehicles and co investment opportunities. The structure is simple on paper, but strategic in practice. QIA plans to act as an anchor investor across several of Goldman’s flagship and newer strategies, with a focus on private ...

Share Share Share Pin QIA just gave Goldman Sachs a very large vote of confidence in Doha. Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund and Goldman Sachs Asset Management signed a memorandum of understanding that sets a target of up to $25 billion in commitments through Goldman managed vehicles and co investment opportunities. The structure is simple on paper, but strategic in practice. QIA plans to act as an anchor investor across several of Goldman’s flagship and newer strategies, with a focus on private ...

Share Share Share Pin Gold punched through $5,000 an ounce on Monday, setting a fresh record and reminding markets what panic buying looks like when it wears a shiny suit. The move came as investors leaned into the safest thing they know when geopolitics heats up and fiscal anxiety refuses to cool down. The spot price of gold rose 1.2% and traded around $5,042 per ounce. US February gold futures were also up 1.2%, trading around $5,036. Silver joined the party, with spot silver jumping 3% to ...

Share Share Share Pin Gold punched through $5,000 an ounce on Monday, setting a fresh record and reminding markets what panic buying looks like when it wears a shiny suit. The move came as investors leaned into the safest thing they know when geopolitics heats up and fiscal anxiety refuses to cool down. The spot price of gold rose 1.2% and traded around $5,042 per ounce. US February gold futures were also up 1.2%, trading around $5,036. Silver joined the party, with spot silver jumping 3% to ...