AI
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Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO turned a Discord server into a talent pipeline to build his $60 billion SpaceX-backed AI company
When SpaceX agreed to buy Cursor for $60 billion, it cemented Michael Truell’s status as one of Silicon Valley’s youngest breakout CEOs. The 25‑year‑old founder had already turned an AI coding project into a staple for enterprise developers and built a hiring funnel out of the community that grew up around it. That wasn’t obvious…
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Renting AI from foreign providers is a national security risk, warns Cohere CEO
Aidan Gomez, CEO of Canadian AI company Cohere, has spent years planning for the possibility that foreign governments might abruptly cut off access to frontier AI models. Earlier this month, when the U.S. government moved to restrict foreign access to Anthropic’s Mythos, it was a striking example of exactly what he’d been warning about. “I…
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Corporate America’s top ranks are nearing a retirement tipping point, expert says
Good morning. I’ve been writing about CFO turnover and the wave of retirements in accounting and finance, and an expert says baby boomer leaders are already heading for the exit—with a tipping point just a few years away. Shawn Cole, president and founding partner of executive search firm Cowen Partners, wants to sound an alarm:…
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‘This is the least crazy AI is ever going to be’: the lessons Europe’s execs must take from Anthropic’s shutdown
When the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to suspend foreign access to its two most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, the episode came with little warning and caught the AI industry off guard. The order may have had less to do with foreign AI use than with Anthropic itself, an organization President Donald…
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Tech companies dealing with data center protests locally are fighting a losing battle: Only 8% of opponents actually live near one
Tech giants jostling with small-town opposition as they embark on their massive data center buildout plans risk forgetting a crucial detail: disdain for data centers, and the AI backlash at large, has gone national. Data center opposition is no longer contained to the individual towns and counties playing host to new construction, according to findings…
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OpenAI’s new ‘super app’ boss hopes to persuade users and potential IPO investors that the company is about way more than just chat
OpenAI is planning to turn ChatGPT into a “super app”—an all-purpose AI interface that brings OpenAI’s key products together—as it heads toward an upcoming IPO. At the center of that push is Thibault Sottiaux, the former head of Codex, who has recently been promoted to oversee OpenAI’s core product platform for consumer, business, and developer…
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Sam Altman thinks AI will surpass human intelligence by 2030. His rival AI billionaires say it’ll be even sooner
Sam Altman has made possible his boldest prediction yet about when AI will surpass human intelligence. Altman, always the AI optimist, has previously touted AI’s potential to someday outthink humans, but the technology’s past years of progress since OpenAI kicked off the AI arms race with ChatGPT’s release have shown him this moment could come…
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Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu on the ‘brainless’ AI discourse, the myth of capitalism and the Gen Z revolution risk
Daron Acemoglu has a number for everything. The MIT economist — who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2024 for his work on institutions and prosperity — estimates that roughly 0.55% in total factor productivity gains is what AI will actually deliver over the next decade, a fraction of Wall Street’s euphoric…
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Sam Altman was ‘0%’ excited to be a CEO of a public company—but OpenAI is taking steps to compete in the AI IPO blitz anyway
OpenAI may be building up to one of the largest initial public offerings ever, but CEO Sam Altman is not necessarily looking forward to helming a public company. “Am I excited to be a public company CEO? 0%,” Altman said in an episode of the Big Technology Podcast published in December 2025. “Am I excited…
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The Pentagon claims a 1,775% boost in AI use is paying off the DOGE promise a year later—but adoption is still under 50%
The U.S. Department of Defense says its AI use is surging and boosting its efficiency, but less than half of agency employees are deploying the technology. And the jury is out on whether the work product is actually any good. Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael said in a recent event with Hudson Institute, a…