Tech
-
Meet the brothers who turned a homegrown AI agent into a $12 million bet on the future of work — in six weeks
Lazer Cohen, 41, had spent 15 years building other people’s companies. His younger brother Gavriel, 36, had spent a decade writing code. Together, they’d quietly bet on each other — their parents included, having invested in the brothers’ earlier AI marketing agency venture before NanoClaw existed. When Gavriel sat down on Jan. 29 and wrote…
-
How Metropolis built a $5 billion AI infrastructure company out of America’s parking problem
Alex Israel knows where autonomous vehicles go to sleep at night. Israel is the CEO of Metropolis, an AI computer vision infrastructure company that processes $5 billion in annual payments volume, controls more than 4,200 locations across the country, and employs 23,000 people. The parking payment (now AI recognition services) company was born in 2018…
-
Exclusive: Advocacy groups file complaint against Roblox, alleging its manipulative design puts kids at risk
Child advocacy organizations Fairplay and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) are filing a complaint against Roblox at the Federal Trade Commission, asking the agency to investigate the gaming giant for practices they say exploit children through manipulative monetization, addictive design features and chat systems that have enabled predators to reach minors. The Request…
-
Google’s I/O conference showed how the company is being completely rebuilt for AI—for better or for worse
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s AI talk at a university commencement speech this weekend drew a chorus of boos. But if the students’ reaction was a sign of anxiety, or ambivalence, about the rapid onslaught of AI in our daily lives, the message clearly did not reach Google headquarters. At the company’s annual developer conference…
-
Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI founding member and inventor of ‘vibe coding,’ defects to Anthropic
Anthropic can’t seem to stop winning. After a string of blockbuster model releases, a new funding round reportedly in talks at a valuation approaching $1 trillion, and an annual run rate that’s nearly parabolic; it’s now hired one of OpenAI’s—its bitter competitor—most famous alumni. “Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic,” Andrej Karpathy wrote onX on Tuesday,…
-
‘Blood in the streets’: Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham pulls back the curtain on the AI wars to reveal a ‘brutal, competitive world’
Jeremy Grantham has spent five decades calling market bubbles before anyone else wanted to hear it. Now he has a warning for investors still betting that AI will mint a new generation of tech monopolies: the exact opposite is happening. “We have gone from a monopoly world to a brutal competitive world,” Grantham said in…
-
‘This is what the consumer wants’: A new lawsuit about PFAS and other ‘forever chemicals’ is heating up the cookware industry
Two of the largest cookware conglomerates in the world are suing a six-year-old startup over claims of false advertising in regard to non-stick cookware. Groupe SEB USA (the maker of T-Fal and All-Clad) and Meyer Corporation (Farberware, Rachael Ray, Anolon) filed suit against Caraway Home on Feb. 13 in the Southern District of New York,…
-
Exclusive: AI startup Viktor raises $75 million to put a virtual ‘coworker’ in Slack and Teams
Fryderyk Wiatrowski, CEO and co-founder of Viktor, joined Meta with the aim of finding a co-founder. After landing in the social media giant’s ranks, he met Peter Albert, an engineer who had worked on Meta’s Llama 2 team, and the pair spent their evenings experimenting with AI, aiming to develop agents that could eventually take…
-
Gen Z is over-relying on AI at work—and it could cost them their careers
AI was supposed to make workers more capable. For some, it’s doing the opposite. Half of workers today admit they’re over-reliant on AI, according to a new study from software company GoTo and Workplace Intelligence, a research agency focused on the nature of work. The 2026 Pulse of Work report—a survey of 2,500 respondents of…
-
Parag Agrawal’s AI startup wants to pay publishers when AI agents use their work
Parag Agrawal’s newest project is trying to solve one of the messiest questions in AI: how to compensate content creators in a world where AI agents, instead of humans, are surfing the web. The former Twitter CEO’s company, Parallel Web Systems, is launching Index, a platform that gives publishers, data providers, and independent creators visibility…