Tech
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AI is splitting the music world. This 49-year-old guitarist used it to keep playing after Parkinson’s
Samuel Smith spent years writing songs with a guitar in his hands. Now, the London-based singer-songwriter is using artificial intelligence tools to help him continue making Americana music after Parkinson’s disease largely took away his ability to play guitar. Smith, who was diagnosed with the progressive neurological disorder in 2020, recently released his second album,…
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Two popes, two industrial revolutions — and one warning for Big AI
With the release of his encyclical letter Magnifica Humanitas on May 25, 2026, Pope Leo XIV has signaled that he wants the church to respond to artificial intelligence much as a predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, responded to upheavals during the Industrial Revolution over a century ago. Since the first act of his papacy – choosing…
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AI is already helping people plan mass shootings. The law is barely paying attention
On Feb. 10, 2026, an 18-year-old woman, Jesse Van Rootselaar, killed eight people and herself in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. OpenAI had previously flagged her ChatGPT conversations as having a disturbing fascination with extreme violence, and suspended her account, but reportedly the company did not notify law enforcement. On Oct. 2,…
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Taylor Swift just exposed a blind spot in AI law — and it’s bigger than copyright
As one of the most popular celebrities in the world, Taylor Swift has already endured her share of AI-related abuse. Fake nudes of the singer have spread widely online. Her voice and likeness have also been used to create fabricated political messages and bogus product endorsements. In April 2026, Swift pushed back. Her intellectual property…
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Asana was battered by the AI boom. Now it’s betting its future on humans and agents working together.
Workplace management company Asana has lost roughly half of its market value since the AI boom began. Now, it’s trying to find its way back by betting on a future where AI agents are fully immersed in the workplace. On Thursday, Asana announced that it had acquired Stack AI, a no-code AI agent builder, for…
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Exclusive: Microsoft is building a super app that combines coding, chat, and other Copilot AI tools
Microsoft needs to solve a nagging problem: It has various Copilot AI assistants throughout its portfolio of products, irking customers who seek a single destination. The company is planning to solve that by creating a super app for its most popular AI tools. The software giant is working on a one-stop shop that would connect…
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Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI with a record $965 billion valuation and says its ‘Mythos’ AI model is coming soon
Anthropic is having a busy week. On Thursday, the San Francisco-based AI lab announced it had raised $65 billion in a new funding round that valued the company at $965 billion, making it the most valuable AI startup in the world. On the same day, it also shipped Claude Opus 4.8, a new AI model…
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California sues 23andMe over alleged ‘lax’ data security that failed to protect nearly 7 million users’ data in 2023 breach
California’s attorney general sued the genetic testing company formerly known as 23andMe on Thursday, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that affected nearly 7 million people across the country. Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the lawsuit against Chrome Holding Co., which 23andMe rebranded under after filing for bankruptcy last…
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She oversaw 29 quarters of sales growth. Now e.l.f.’s CFO is taking on its AI strategy
Good morning. As AI reshapes how companies operate, CFOs are increasingly becoming the executives responsible for ensuring AI actually delivers value across the enterprise. I recently spoke with Mandy Fields, who has spent seven years as CFO of e.l.f. Beauty, steering the cosmetics company through a solid run of growth. Now she has a new…
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Ferrari’s $640,000 electric car is getting roasted online—and its former chairman says it risks ‘destruction of a myth’
It’s never a good sign when your former chairman explains that he has to bite his tongue about your much-anticipated major product launch. Former Ferrari president and chairman Luca di Montezemolo was so appalled by the Luce, the Italian luxury carmaker’s first-ever electric vehicle, on Monday in Rome that he told a local TV news…