French police search X office in Paris, summon Elon Musk for questioning In Brief Posted: 8:55 AM PST · February 3, 2026 Image Credits:Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg / Getty Images French police and Europol searched the local office of X, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday.  The raid is part of an ongoing investigation...

Bill Gates’ TerraPower gets approval to build new nuclear reactor The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) gave TerraPower the go-ahead this week to build a new nuclear reactor in the shadow of an aging coal power plant in Wyoming. TerraPower’s permit is the first to be issued by the NRC in nearly a decade. The startup —founded by Bill Gates in 2015 and backed by Nvidia — has been designing its...

Ukraine’s startups keep building When edtech company Preply became a unicorn earlier this year, employees in its Kyiv office celebrated with cake — because that’s what you do, even in the middle of a war. In the four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, Ukrainian startups have done more than survive: they are still building and growing. Preply, for instance, will use the...

Asos co-founder dies after Thailand balcony fallAsos co-founder dies after Thailand apartment block fallBloomberg via Getty ImagesQuentin Griffiths died in the Thai city of PattayaA co-founder of online fashion giant Asos died after falling from a high-rise apartment block in Thailand, police have said.Quentin Griffiths has been named by Thai police as the man found dead on the ground in the...

X revamps Creator Subscriptions with new features, like exclusive threads and shareable cards Elon Musk-owned X announced on Thursday that it’s revamping the social network’s Creator Subscriptions offering with a number of new features, including exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, a new dashboard, and a shareable subscriptions card, among other changes. The company believes...