Tech
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Meet Mark Stevens: The billionaire VC, Nvidia board member, and Giving Pledge signer who just donated $200 million to USC
As Big Tech competes to win the AI race, America’s top universities are also clamoring for the best resources to study and research the technology. And the University of Southern California just got a massive bet from one of the country’s most prominent venture capitalists to place them squarely in the competition. On Tuesday, USC…
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ServiceNow just told Wall Street it’s going to double again. Here’s why $30 billion of revenue isn’t crazy
Bill McDermott has a habit of making promises that sound like boasts and then keeping them. When he took the helm of ServiceNow in 2019, the company was doing $3.5 billion in annual subscription revenue. This year, it will finish at nearly $16 billion. “We are printing a new ServiceNow every year,” he told reporters…
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The ‘PayPal Mafia’ built a $1.5 billion fintech pioneer. The company they left behind is on life support
Nineteen years ago, in a Fortune cover storythat christened the group, the so-called “PayPal Mafia” gathered in San Francisco for a photo shoot. There were gold chains, tracksuits, Maker’s Mark, Sinatra singing through the Wurlitzer. Peter Thiel had a butler, Fortune’s Jeffrey O’Brien discovered—“holy cannoli”—while Max Levchin wore mismatched freebie shorts. Elon Musk skipped the…
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Americans are busy getting angry and throwing a fit about AI while the Chinese use it to book travel, order food and hail rides
On a recent weekday, around 50 people gathered outside the headquarters of a Chinese mobile internet company, waiting to get help with installing an artificial intelligence assistant. The scene in Beijing, China’s capital, was repeated for days at several events and was also seen in the southern technology hub Shenzhen in March, as engineers helped…
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Your company’s AI could delete everything in 9 seconds. ServiceNow wants to be the kill switch
It wasn’t a hypothetical. It wasn’t a cautionary tale from a decade ago. It happened recently at a real company: an AI agent gained elevated permissions and, in 9 seconds, deleted an entire production database—customer records, reservations, every backup. Gone. No attacker. No breach. Just an agent with too much access and no one watching.…
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Jensen Huang on why ‘agentic’ will rewire a $50 trillion economy: ‘operated by robots, managed by more robots, and the entire factory is a robot’
Jensen Huang didn’t have to be in Las Vegas on Tuesday. He runs the most valuable publicly traded company in the world. His chips power virtually every major AI system on the planet. He could have sent a video. He could have sent a lieutenant. Instead, he walked onto the main stage at ServiceNow’s Knowledge…
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Gen Alpha is using makeup to pass age verification tech online. One mom caught her son using an eyebrow pencil
Back in the old days, you’d snag an older sibling’s expired license or put on some makeup and try your best to sneak into a bar or 18 and over venue. Well, it’s 2026 and kids are no different. They’re using someone else’s IDs and drawing on facial hair to get into the hottest venue…
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Jamie Dimon and Dario Amodei sidestep question about whether the AI cyber ‘freakout’ is warranted
Andrew Ross Sorkin didn’t waste any time getting to the question on many people’s minds this morning when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei appeared on-stage in Lower Manhattan with Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan and a freshly-minted Anthropic partner. “Is the freakout over AI-enabled cyberattacks warranted?” the CNBC host and veteran New York Times‘ business journalist…
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ServiceNow just unveiled an AI workforce that can run your entire company: ‘Enterprises need AI that senses, decides, and securely acts’
ServiceNow used its biggest annual stage to make one sweeping argument: the era of AI as a helper is over. The era of AI as a worker has begun. At Knowledge 2026, held this week at the Venetian Expo Center in Las Vegas, the enterprise software company — valued at roughly $95 billion and increasingly…
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UK-based Google DeepMind workers vote to unionize over military AI contracts amid internal backlash over its Pentagon deal
Google’s UK-based DeepMind workers have launched a bid to form what would be the world’s first union at a frontier AI lab. The move follows a controversial deal Google inked with the Pentagon, sparking a wave of internal backlash over the company’s military contracts. Last week, Google agreed to let the U.S. Department of Defense…