Tech
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Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary says if he were 25 today, he’d chase these two booming opportunities in the world of AI
If Kevin O’Leary, 71, had to do it all over again at 25, he said he’d focus on two key areas in the tech industry to make it big. The Shark Tank star and chairman of O’Leary Ventures said in a video earlier this year that if he were a 20-something again, he would focus…
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Mark Zuckerberg takes business calls on a jet ski wearing his $800 Meta glasses—and insists ‘the other person could not tell’
Mark Zuckerberg firmly believes wearables are the future. He’s so obsessed with them, in fact, he wears his Meta glasses pretty much everywhere. “I’ve taken business calls on a jet ski,” he told Complex in an interview published earlier this week. “The other person could not tell that I was on it.” The Meta CEO…
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The CEO using AI to double revenue with 1,000 fewer hires: ‘Nobody’s going to replace the last mile’
In a $500 billion industry still dominated by clipboards and subcontractors, the most aggressive AI deployment isn’t happening in software or finance. It’s happening inside a central Pennsylvania company that helps you remodel your bathroom from your couch — and its founder is the first to admit the technology still thinks his EBITDA is measured…
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How David Senra built the podcast the world’s most powerful CEOs can’t stop listening to
David Senra will tell you he doesn’t care if you listen to his podcast. And he means it. For five and a half years after he launched Founders in 2016, almost nobody did listen. He read one business biography per week—hard copy, with a pen and a six-inch ruler and a stack of Post-its— photographed…
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Microsoft’s next big bet isn’t on a model but on becoming the Swiss Army knife of enterprise AI
Microsoft is making a big bet on the adoption of its enterprise AI tools. The tech giant announced on Thursday that it is investing $2.5 billion in a new business unit, Microsoft Frontier, aimed at getting customers to better use its AI to transform their businesses and to address an area where many companies are…
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Organized crime is building an AI hardware cargo theft economy: ‘The economics have become just crazy from the criminal opportunistic perspective’
With the data center boom projected to swell into a $7 trillion market by the end of the decade, organized criminals are centering on a particular shadow economy: hijacking AI supply chains and selling their spoils on the foreign black market for a hefty profit. Cargo theft has been around for centuries, evident for example…
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Meet the Zillennials: The luckiest micro-generation in the workforce, born between 1993 and 1998
I remember my father unpacking an America Online box and then waiting 45 minutes while his computer made a series of strange noises. My brother and I stood behind him, joking about how slow this was taking — logging onto the supposed “information superhighway.” The computer sat in a corner of the living room, next to…
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Anthropic’s Fable model is back. But U.S. AI policy is still a mess
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. It’s Jeremy here, filling in for Bea, who usually writes the Thursday newsletter. In this edition: Anthropic’s Fable is back. But U.S. AI policy is still a mess. OpenAI wants the U.S. government to take a 5% stake in the company And OpenAI reportedly scores a breakthrough in…
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Why build AI data centers in a cornfield when Saudi Arabia has cheap oil and cheaper power?
Meta stock jumped more than 7% Tuesday on a Bloomberg report that the company is building a new business to sell excess AI computing capacity to outside customers—a move that would put it in competition with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. But Mark Douglas, president and CEO of connected-TV ad platform MNTN and a…
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The defense tech boom has become a bubble—or it will be soon
Drones, missiles, and warships were, for a long time, deemed uninvestable in Silicon Valley—or, at minimum, contentious. Consider 2018: Googlers were storming out over their company’s involvement in the AI military initiative Project Maven, and Anduril was the anomaly, a multi-million defense-focused startup soon to be headlined as “the most controversial startup” in tech. VCs…