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GenAI has become a key part of coding workflows, but most companies struggle to track its use, let alone its return on investment. Israeli startup Milestone hopes to help with a platform designed to correlate AI tool usage with engineering metrics, including code quality. The catch is that these companies have to give Milestone access to their codebases, a bet that investors initially questioned, CEO and co-founder Liad Elidan told TechCrunch. But with customers including Kayak, Monday, and Sapiens, the startup has now raised a $10 million seed funding round led by San Francisco-based venture firm Heavybit and Israeli fund…
Workers picket in front of a Starbucks outlet in New York City, U.S., Oct. 1, 2025.Brendan McDermid | ReutersStarbucks Workers United launched an open-ended strike in more than 40 cities Thursday on Red Cup Day, one of the chain’s biggest sales days of the year.The protest, which the union says involves more than 1,000 baristas in over 65 stores, comes after Workers United voted to authorize an open-ended strike after baristas and the coffee giant failed to reach a collective bargaining agreement.The strike could hurt business during Starbucks’ busy holiday season, which typically provides a sales boost and will be key…
Ladera, which is nestled in Saint Lucia’s Piton Mountain range, has begun welcoming guests back following a major renovation which includes a new wellness center, revamped accommodations and four new restaurants.“We have the most special setting on all of the island: The resort was built on a ridge and it feels like you can reach out and touch the Pitons in either direction,” said Ladera Property Manager Eustace Augustine, a 41-year veteran of the property, who helped build it. One of the centerpieces of the renovation is the 25,000-square-foot lévé Wellness & Spa, which offers stunning views of the rainforest…
Microsoft is taking a page from OpenAI’s playbook, literally. Bloomberg first reported that the tech giant plans to leverage its partner’s custom chip development to bolster its own struggling semiconductor efforts, a move that looks increasingly pragmatic given Microsoft’s lackluster performance compared to rivals like Google and Amazon. The arrangement is straightforward: OpenAI is designing AI chips with Broadcom, and Microsoft gets full access to the innovations. “As they innovate even at the system level, we get access to all of it,” CEO Satya Nadella explained on a newly released interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, describing plans to adopt OpenAI’s…
Music streaming service Spotify said it is introducing a new shuffle option that repeats fewer suggested songs. The company originally launched Smart Shuffle for paid users in 2023, a feature that added new songs to a playlist’s queue based on users’ previously played songs and their preferences. Users previously could not disable this feature. With this new update, the company is making shuffle with fewer repeats the default for paid users. This means users will hear fewer songs from their recent listening history and more new songs. If they want the standard Smart Shuffle, they can go to Settings >…
Swissmediavision | E+ | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Keeping wealth in the family is easier than controlling how your heirs invest it.For investment firms of ultra-wealthy families, the stakes are especially high. A recent Bank of America survey of 335 family offices, with 60% of respondents holding at least $500 million in assets, found that 87% had yet to pass down assets to the next generation.More than a third of family offices…
by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 11:45 AM ET, Wed November 12, 2025 Royal Caribbean is sending Icon of the Seas to Texas.The vessel will sail from Galveston for the first time for the 2027-28 season. Bookings are now open for the entire 2027-28 season for Crown & Anchor Society loyalty members and will open to members of the public on November 13. Voyages range from four to 12 nights long and are being offered on nine Royal Caribbean ships starting April 2027. In addition to Icon of the Seas, Royal Caribbean will also have Liberty of the Seas and Symphony…
Airbnb is piloting a service with Instacart that will allow guests to order groceries directly through the Airbnb app before and during their stay, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday. “We are regularly testing new product updates, categories and initiatives, in order to provide the best possible experience for our community,” an Airbnb spokesperson said in an email. “As part of that, following the launch of Airbnb Services earlier this year, we will pilot groceries with Instacart in select markets across the U.S. beginning in January.” The new kitchen stocking service will be available to select hosts with qualifying listings…
Anthropic on Wednesday said it had signed an ambitious new data center partnership with U.K.-based neocloud provider Fluidstack, committing $50 billion to building facilities across the U.S. to meet its growing compute needs. The data centers will be located in Texas and New York, and come online throughout 2026. The company described the sites as “custom built for Anthropic with a focus on maximizing efficiency for our workloads.” “We’re getting closer to AI that can accelerate scientific discovery and help solve complex problems in ways that weren’t possible before,” Anthropic’s CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei (pictured above) said in a…
Sixteen years ago, engineers working on the Google self-driving project conducted their first autonomous vehicle tests on the freeway that connects Silicon Valley to San Francisco. The company would eventually become Waymo, autonomous vehicle testing would expand — fanning out to other cities. Eventually, the company launched commercial robotaxi services in Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Other cities soon followed. But freeways, despite some of that early testing, would remain out of reach. Until today. Waymo said Wednesday it will begin offering robotaxi rides that use freeways across San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles, a critical expansion for the…