Richard Lawler

An Astronomer post on social media says, “Before this week, we were known as a pioneer in the DataOps space, helping data teams power everything from modern analytics to production AI. While awareness of our company may have changed overnight, our product and our work for our customers have not.”

He was most widely known for his 2012 jump from the stratosphere that made him the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall, and the person to complete the highest-ever parachute jump, until that record was topped two years later.

Judging from his current hit, “Ordinary,” Warren’s music has a lot in common with how Chipotle tastes, so the combo makes sense. The song will play at restaurants on Thursday night, and there’s a giveaway tied to the Chipotle app. Hopefully, it works out better than McDonald’s $1 million Flexi-Disc promotion in 1989.

That right time has stretched for at least a few hours, so there’s probably something else afoot, even if it’s not malicious. We’ll let you know if we hear anything.

The state has also been on a record pace of adding more clean energy capacity over the last few years, although Trump’s recently passed budget bill is adding some hurdles for future projects.

Victoria Song and Allison Johnson also joined Jake on this week’s episode of The Vergecast to give more of their opinions on everything we saw this week, plus some other tech news.

There’s also some succession plan musing around (secretly swole?) CEO Tim Cook detailing why hardware chief John Ternus is most likely, and how the design team that will be reporting to Cook might do so via Alan Dye and Molly Anderson.

It’s explaining the executive’s departure despite getting some advertisers back on X “with a gun,” and developing the X Money digital wallet and payments project that is reportedly still set for release later this year. A CFO who reported directly to Musk, the return of his focus after leaving the Trump administration, and xAI’s $33 billion acquisition all apparently played a role.

The AI boom and demand for its chips have quickly increased the company’s value in the last few years, which only passed $1 trillion two years ago.