Tech
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Donald Newhouse saw the internet coming in 2004. His newspapers still weren’t ready
Donald E. Newhouse, president of one of the largest family-controlled publishing companies in the nation and a former board chairman of The Associated Press, died Tuesday. He was 96 and died at his home in New Jersey, his family said. During his career, Newhouse served as president of the Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey, and…
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Blue Origin is providing NASA with landers as the agency plans moon base
NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II’s record-breaking lunar flyaround. The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four U.S. companies. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will…
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Five giant hyperscalers—and Nvidia—share a surprising trait: female CFOs
The CFO job in Big Tech used to be defined largely by margins, operating leverage, and investor discipline. In the age of AI, it is increasingly defined by a more difficult question: how much should a company spend now on compute capacity it may not fully monetize for years to come? For Susan Li at…
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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back their AI jobs apocalypse prophecies as they eye blockbuster IPOs
Two of the most influential CEOs in tech spent the last year warning that AI would gut white-collar employment. Now they’re admitting they were wrong, joining other leaders like Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon in casting doubt on an AI job apocalypse. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in an interview with Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO…
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America’s manufacturing Achilles’ heel: McKinsey’s warning on rare earths grows louder
The story of Achilles doesn’t begin with an arrow. It begins with a mother who thought she could engineer invulnerability. Thetis dipped her infant son in the River Styx to make him immortal, holding him by the heel — the one place the water never touched. Achilles grew up to be the greatest warrior of…
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As China bets its future on AI by cutting arts degrees, Jensen Huang says parents shouldn’t worry about what their kids study
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may have studied engineering, but he says it won’t matter what your child studies in the future. Huang said even in a world dominated by AI journalism, the arts, and design are still going to matter. Therefore, parents shouldn’t worry about pushing their kids into AI-focused careers. “I think that it…
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Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Now its COO is questioning whether it’s worth it
Uber’s business model is one of the most AI-forward in Silicon Valley. AI decides your ride price, optimizes your route, among other predictive features. But even with these advanced features, an Uber executive is sounding the alarm on the rideshare company’s AI spending. In a recent interview on the Rapid Response podcast, Uber president and…
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Largest study of AI hiring algorithms to date finds ‘clear racial disparities’ — over 25% of Black applicants tainted by bias
The most comprehensive independent study of AI-powered hiring algorithms ever conducted has found stark racial disparities embedded in the tools used to screen millions of job applicants, with more than one in four applications submitted by Black job seekers directed to positions where the algorithm produces outcomes that trigger federal discrimination scrutiny. The paper, “Algorithmic…
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Exclusive: Perceptic, a startup automating drug discovery end-to-end for Big Pharma, emerges from stealth with $12 million in seed funding
A trio of former Palantir executives who helped spearhead that company’s Life Sciences practice have founded a startup called Perceptic that is building an end-to-end AI platform for drug development, handling everything from drug discovery to clinical trial design. The company emerged from stealth today and announced a $12 million seed funding round. London-based venture…
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Exclusive: The next wave of AI drive-thrus is here—and a16z and Arc think it finally works
Mike MacLennan’s idea of market research as the CEO of a drive-thru AI company is loitering at Burger King. His company’s first dollar was actually given to him by a group of elderly women who believed he was panhandling at the fast food joint. His company, Arc, is a voice AI startup that takes orders…