Tech
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These Fortune 500 companies are bigger than most national economies—here’s where they’d rank as countries
The Fortune 500, now in its 72nd year, tracks the biggest U.S. companies by revenue. Each year, companies are ranked by how much they’ve made (or lost) and by how their market caps and bottom lines rank within their cohorts. Some of the largest F500 companies have revenues that dwarf the GDPs of most of…
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Bernie Sanders wants Americans to own a piece of AI. The Trump White House seems to agree
Senator Bernie Sanders wants every American to own a piece of OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. Late on Monday, he posted a video describing his vision: the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would impose a one-time 50% tax on each company’s stock, paid in shares, depositing the equity into a public fund that gives…
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A new AI-powered computer worm could prove to be the stuff of cybersecurity nightmares
In cybersecurity, few words trigger more dread than ‘wormable’—a vulnerability that could be weaponized into a self-spreading worm. Now researchers at the University of Toronto have demonstrated something worse: an AI-driven worm that can’t be stopped by patching a single flaw, because it uses reasoning to detect and exploit different vulnerabilities as it spreads. In…
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Ohio city workers are covering automated license plate readers with trash bags as officials sound the alarm on ‘egregious violations’ of privacy
Across Dayton, Ohio, city workers are pulling black trash bags over dozens of automatic license plate readers previously installed by the local government, rendering the devices useless. The move comes after city officials suspended the use of these Flock Safety cameras over concerns the system’s data was being used for immigration enforcement. Last month, the…
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Who is Chris Olah? The atheist Anthropic cofounder the Pope chose to sit beside him at the Vatican and tell the tech industry it can’t govern itself
Sitting alongside Pope Leo XIV as he delivered his first encyclical on the dangers of AI was a curious speaker: a self-declared atheist and the billionaire cofounder of one of the most valuable AI companies in the world. Chris Olah, one of Anthropic’s cofounders and a prominent AI safety researcher who serves as the company’s…
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Exclusive: Apoha, a startup building AI models for creating new materials, emerges from stealth with $36 million Series A funding round
Apoha, a deep tech startup that is building AI models for creating new kinds of substances—from proteins to food products to paints—based on a new kind of data about how materials behave, is emerging from stealth today with $36 million in venture capital funding. The funding round, which is the London- and San Francisco-based startup’s…
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Microsoft seeks to be AI’s center of gravity again. CEO Satya Nadella is in San Francisco to make the case
Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella proclaimed a “new paradigm” on Tuesday in a keynote at the company’s Build conference in San Francisco. He was talking about the advent of agentic AI, but for anyone who has followed Nadella’s company closely in recent years, he could have just as easily been talking about Microsoft. After taking…
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Trump killed his own AI order, then quietly signed another one weeks later
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Tuesday, less than two weeks after postponing a White House ceremony over his concerns that a similar policy could dull America’s edge on AI technology. The order establishes a framework for the federal government to vet the national security risks of the most advanced AI…
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Mark Cuban put $500K into a stranger’s rocket company over email. It’s now a SpaceX competitor worth $4 billion
Mark Cuban has a track record of making bold business bets with limited information. He once bought a $25 million Dallas mansion sight unseen, calling it his one “why the f–k not purchase.” But one of his most lucrative gambles started even more casually: with a cold email from a stranger he says he’s still…
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‘We will fly again’: Blue Origin says rocket explosion spared vital launch pad parts
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin said Tuesday that last week’s rocket explosion spared fuel tanks and some other critical parts of the launch pad. Critical to NASA’s Artemis moon program, the company’s massive New Glenn rocket blew up during an engine-firing test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. A lightning tower and the transporter-erector used to…