Tech
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Goldman tackles AI’s missing link: the ‘world model’ that every AI godfather is racing to figure out
They are the people who made artificial intelligence what it is. They built the datasets, designed the architectures, and trained the systems that now write our emails, generate our code, and pass the bar exam. And increasingly, quietly, they are all working on the same problem—a problem that implies today’s most powerful AI, for all…
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Big Tech is spending $226,000 a day on lobbying Congress, advocacy group finds
From presidential inaugurations to high-profile dinners to documentary screenings, Big Tech leaders have become a fixture in the White House. And it looks like it’s spreading to Capitol Hill as well—their representatives are expanding their influence in Washington by spending millions in Congress. Big Tech companies, and especially emerging AI giants, are now spending more…
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Meet ‘Ace,’ the paddle-wielding robot who just beat humans at ping pong in AI breakthrough
A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them, according to a new study that shows how advances in artificial intelligence are making robots more agile. Japanese electronics giant Sony built the robotic arm it calls Ace and pitted…
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Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO is a former Google intern who just inked a $60 billion deal with SpaceX
Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO Michael Truell helped take the AI coding company from a college passion project to a potential $60 billion acquisition by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. On Tuesday, SpaceX announced in a post on X that Cursor gave SpaceX the right to acquire the company later this year for $60 billion. If SpaceX doesn’t buy…
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The AI boom is singlehandedly carrying the U.S. import market—and adding $200 billion to the trade deficit, Fed study finds
When President Donald Trump returned to office last year, he framed his tariff policy as a bid to bring manufacturing of strategic materials and equipment back to U.S. More than a year later, his sweeping trade agenda has indeed forced a crackdown on imports, so much so that a single technological force has grown into…
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The AI economy runs on helium. The Iran war just created a $650 billion problem
The hyperscalers building the infrastructure of the AI economy have a $650 billion problem hiding in plain sight — and it doesn’t involve tariffs, talent, or chip export bans. It involves helium. A new report from Moody’s Ratings warns that helium supply disruptions stemming from the Middle East conflict are now threatening the semiconductor supply…
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The internet isn’t just like real life, a top VC says — it is real life. For a16z, that’s not philosophy, it’s an investment
The phrase “touch grass” has become the internet’s way of telling someone to log off and rejoin the real world. Erik Torenberg, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, thinks the phrase has it exactly backward — and that getting the philosophy right has enormous economic consequences. In a new essay published through a16z, Torenberg makes…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says you won’t lose your job to AI—you’ll lose it to your coworker who uses it
The warnings about AI’s impact on jobs echo from Silicon Valley to Wall Street to Washington, D.C. But Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang thinks you should worry less about the robots and more about your coworker, the one quietly “tokenmaxxing,” or using AI to do in minutes what takes you hours. In a recent interview with…
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The $6 trillion reinvention: Why IT services firms must start underwriting outcomes
A financial analyst, a few years out of school, sits in front of four cloud terminals at a New York hedge fund, running $1,000 a day in AI tokens. His manager approved the budget without hesitation – the firm’s own math showed his productivity had multiplied fivefold, returning well over 200% on every dollar spent.…
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Europe has the talent and dunding to win at AI. First, it needs to break free from the Magnificent Seven
For years, the narrative about European tech was one of unfulfilled promise — brilliant researchers, fragmented markets, and a chronic inability to scale. That story is changing. European AI funding reached a record $21.8 billion in 2025, up 58% in a single year. The continent’s research institutions are world-class. Its startup hubs — from Stockholm…