Tech
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Anthropic’s AI models are back online after a two-week government standoff—settling the company and administration into a fragile truce
Anthropic has restored global access to Fable 5, two weeks after the Trump administration slapped export controls on the company’s most powerful AI model, citing security concerns. The AI company announced Tuesday the controls had been relaxed, a shift also confirmed by U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who wrote on X the government had spent…
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Cisco is rolling out AI agents to every single one of its 90,000 employees
Good morning. Mark Patterson has spent 26 years at Cisco Systems, which is long enough to watch the company navigate multiple technology cycles. But he says nothing compares to what’s happening now. “AI is the most significant technology transition that we’ve seen in probably our lifetime, and I think Cisco was right at the heart…
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Eli Lilly just placed a $40 million bet on the next injectable boom
Eli Lilly just wrote a $40 million check to cure baldness. The pharma giant behind Zepbound and Mounjaro—which made the injectable culturally normal for millions of Americans—led a $100 million stock offering in Absci, a generative AI drug company. Adage, BVF Partners, Columbia Threadneedle, Invus and Redmile also participated. Absci used AI to design ABS-201,…
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As Big Tech showers employees with perks to win the talent war, Nvidia built a nearly $5 trillion company by making people pay for their own lunch
Nvidia may be worth $4.8 trillion, but its employees still have to pay up at the company cafeteria. The chipmaker fueling the AI boom, led by CEO Jensen Huang, is the most valuable company in the world by market cap, towering above other tech giants like Google, Apple, and Amazon. But that doesn’t mean the…
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Dell’s AI boom is real, but so is the profit margin hit nobody is pricing in
Michael Dell is having a banner year. His eponymous company is a key supplier in the data center buildout, selling Nvidia-based servers, racks, cooling and support to CoreWeave and xAI, while working with Nvidia, Google and OpenAI on systems that companies can use to run advanced software. Dell blew past revenue expectations last month, and…
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At the heart of Anthropic’s clashes with the U.S. government, a decision not to play by the new rules of Trump’s Washington
On Friday, OpenAI announced it was withholding the wide release of its latest AI model, GPT-5.6, at the request of the U.S. government. On the same day, the U.S. Commerce Department told Anthropic that export controls it had slapped on that company’s powerful Mythos AI model would be relaxed, following a two-week period in which…
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Comcast’s split brings former CFO Michael Angelakis back as CEO
Good morning. Comcast Corporation announced on Monday that it plans to separate its media and technology businesses into two independent, publicly traded companies through a tax-free spin-off of NBCUniversal and Sky. Comcast’s former CFO is returning to take a top seat. Mike Cavanagh, co-CEO of Comcast (No. 37 on the Fortune 500), will become CEO…
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Ford on why it hired 350 ‘gray beard’ engineers: you need their mentorship for younger workers — and to drive huge AI productivity gains
WIth all the discussion about the AI bubble, AI hype, and mass automation displacement, Ford Motor Company has a message for the U.S. economy: Human experience matters. Over the last three years, the company has hired 350 veteran engineers—dubbed “gray beards” internally and made up of both former Ford employees and workers from suppliers—to help…
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‘Humanity has chosen to become idiots’: This Brown professor switched to take-home exams after a mass shooting and discovered mass cheating
When Brown University Professor Roberto Serrano changed the format of his midterm exam last spring, he was thinking about his students’ mental health, not academic fraud. Two of them had been shot, including Ella Cook, a young woman who had sat in his office just days before the December 13 massacre at Brown University and…
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This summer’s heat is a live stress test for data centers — here’s what it’s revealing in real time
This summer has already produced three answers to questions the data center industry would have preferred to leave theoretical. In May, the PJM Interconnection — the grid operator serving data center-dense northern Virginia — received emergency authorization from the Energy Department to curtail power to data centers due to “atypically hot mid-May weather conditions.” In…