Tech
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A Mark Cuban-backed AI startup is helping families turn conversations with their elderly relatives into lasting memories
Charlie Greene, the cofounder and CEO of Remento, first learned about the importance of recording memories when his father, Don Greene, died during the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 on 9/11. A 10-year-old boy at the time of the terrorist attack, which resulted in his father’s plane crashing in Shanksville, Penn., the now 34-year-old
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North Korean IT workers are stealing remote jobs and raking in billions—and Americans are helping them do it
This month, a federal judge in Massachusetts sentenced Kejia “Tony” Wang, a 42-year-old husband and father from New Jersey, to nine years in prison for spearheading what prosecutors described as an international fraud operation that placed North Korean IT workers in tech jobs at more than 100 American companies—including Fortune 500 firms. Over the course
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AI smart glasses are helping visually impaired runners take on the London Marathon
Running past Buckingham Palace during training, Tilly Dowler is closing in on a goal she once thought out of reach. Dowler, who has Stargardt disease and says she has about 10% useful vision, only began running last year, starting with a couch to 5K program before building up to marathon distance. She is now preparing
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Cohere’s European push highlights the rise of AI’s middle powers beyond the US and China
As the U.S. and China vie for dominance in AI, a new geopolitical dynamic is emerging among a group of so-called “middle powers.” From Canada, France, and Germany to Japan, South Korea, Israel, and the UAE, countries are attempting to build so-called “sovereign AI” systems designed to offer alternatives to technology from the U.S. and
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Anthropic says engineering missteps were behind Claude Code’s month-long decline after weeks of user backlash
Anthropic, the AI lab valued at $380 billion, has acknowledged that a series of engineering misstepswere behind a widely-experienced decline in the performance of its Claude Code tool that sparked a user revolt over the past month. The latest admission, which came after weeks in which Anthropic had initially implied in its communications that nothing
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Your shareholder letter sounds like ChatGPT wrote it. This is the four-word phrase giving CEOs away
If you ever catch us using the following phrasing, trust that it was written by a human who was just tired that day: Experts say the sentence structure “it’s not X, it’s Y” is a classic indicator of AI-generated writing, and its usage in corporate communications has spiked, Barron’s recently reported. For example, “Our ship
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Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan crushed Wall Street targets on his 1-year anniversary: We are embracing our ‘paranoid’ roots
Intel has spent the last few years trying to reinvent itself and prove it’s still relevant in an AI-centric world dominated by Nvidia’s chips. On Thursday, as Intel crushed Wall Street financial targets, the company had a new message: There’s nothing wrong with being a 58-year-old maker of PC and server microprocessors. “We are embracing
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Tesla stock dives on news that it earned next to nothing on cars in Q1, and plans to spend $25 billion in CapEx anyway
Tesla’s earning calls in the last few quarters have always been a study in extremes: The EV-maker’s profits from making and selling cars and batteries keeps shrinking, while CEO Elon Musk’s promises of wonders to come for the likes of robotaxis and humanoid robots keep ballooning. The Q1 edition, held after the market close on
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‘Don’t leave’: Jensen Huang challenges billionaire class as he insists ‘highest taxes in the world’ are OK with him
Billionaires are becoming an even rarer species in California. A proposed one-time 5% tax on their wealth has led several of the state’s wealthiest residents, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, to flee to Nevada and Florida. But Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is doubling down on his commitment
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Spotify just turned 20. Here’s how founder Daniel Ek built it into a $100 billion music empire by being the ‘least powerful person’ at the company
Spotify turned 20 on Thursday only months after Daniel Ek, who founded the $100 billion music juggernaut stepped down as CEO. Ek, who cofounded Spotify in 2006 in Stockholm, in January stepped into a new role as executive chairman role with a focus on big-picture moves and capital-allocation decisions. The company has elevated co-presidents Alex