Your Saturday briefing on the week that shaped technology

The internet can learn a lot from crypto. Why do we entrust so much of the internet with a few big players and create single points of failure, when we could build something that benefits the many?

Networks fall into three tiers based on a simple question: Can they reach the entire internet without paying anyone?

Your weekly pulse check on the moves shaping technology and business.

The telecom giant claims its exit from public internet exchanges will give customers "lower latencies." Is putting in the middleman (inter.link) achieving this? After some consideration, that might actually work.

Your Saturday briefing on the week that shaped technology

Your Saturday briefing on the week that shaped technology

Your Saturday briefing on the week that shaped technology

Stripe hit $106.7B valuation and first-ever profitability in 2024, processing $1.4T in payments. Yet founders say "no near-term IPO." Why the most anticipated tech IPO keeps delaying—and what it means for 150+ zombie unicorns trapped behind it.

DeepMind just won the Nobel Prize for solving protein folding with AlphaFold. More interesting: they gave away 214 million protein structures for free, then turned around and signed $3 billion in pharma deals. Here's how the technical breakthrough works, why the business model is genius, and what opportunities