He doesn’t sound happy about it, but Elon Musk is apparently willing to keep footing the bill for Starlink access in Ukraine indefinitely. 

What happened: The SpaceX CEO tweeted that the company would continue funding the satellite internet service, a reversal from a day before when he said SpaceX would have to be compensated by the Pentagon if it was to continue operating in Ukraine.

If you’ve tried to plan a day at the park recently, you’ve probably been the victim of “unpredictable weather.” 

Driving the news: Weather forecasts have always been unreliable (since the atmosphere is changing constantly), but as the weather becomes even more unpredictable, sports leagues, airlines, and even militaries are turning to private forecasters for answers. 

A Zoom call is convenient, sure, but it lacks a certain je ne sais quois that you can only get through in-person meetings…

…that’s why Meta is betting that companies will pay $1,500 for the company’s new Quest Pro virtual reality headset, in its push to bring the metaverse to the corporateverse.

Have you been spending time in the metaverse? No? That makes you and Meta employees.

Do you get really scared watching videos of those scarily agile robot dogs? 

Of course you do! In that case, you’ll be happy to know that the people who make them have promised that they will never let them hurt you.

Elon Musk unveiled a "close to production" prototype of Tesla’s humanoid robot on Friday—the good news is we probably don’t have to fear a machine uprising anytime soon; the bad news is we probably also will have to keep doing our own chores for a while longer, at least.

What happened: Tesla’s Optimus robot had to be wheeled onto the stage at the company’s AI Day event before taking a few steps and waving to the crowd.

For the first time ever, Meta—the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—plans to reduce its headcount and cut budgets across most teams. 

Text messages made public as part of Elon Musk’s court fight with Twitter (along with being highly entertaining) shed insight into his early motivations for buying the business and show how Silicon Valley heavyweights rallied to his cause.

These days, “Google it” no longer has that same magical, all-knowing ring it once did. I know it. You know it. And Google knows it, which is why it's trying to bring Search into the future.