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Renting AI from foreign providers is a national security risk, warns Cohere CEO
Aidan Gomez, CEO of Canadian AI company Cohere, has spent years planning for the possibility that foreign governments might abruptly cut off access to frontier AI models. Earlier this month, when the U.S. government moved to restrict foreign access to Anthropic’s Mythos, it was a striking example of exactly what he’d been warning about. “I…
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Corporate America’s top ranks are nearing a retirement tipping point, expert says
Good morning. I’ve been writing about CFO turnover and the wave of retirements in accounting and finance, and an expert says baby boomer leaders are already heading for the exit—with a tipping point just a few years away. Shawn Cole, president and founding partner of executive search firm Cowen Partners, wants to sound an alarm:…
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Exclusive: A founder who went from pressure washing to Wharton just raised $40 million to put AI to work for plumbers, electricians, and HVAC crews
George Eliadis really knows his way around a pressure washer. The 24 year-old spent six summers pressure washing houses in upstate New York with his dad. Now he has a Wharton degree, and just raised $40 million from two of the most competitive names in venture capital to fix blue-collar and home services problems at…
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‘This is the least crazy AI is ever going to be’: the lessons Europe’s execs must take from Anthropic’s shutdown
When the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to suspend foreign access to its two most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, the episode came with little warning and caught the AI industry off guard. The order may have had less to do with foreign AI use than with Anthropic itself, an organization President Donald…
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Tech companies dealing with data center protests locally are fighting a losing battle: Only 8% of opponents actually live near one
Tech giants jostling with small-town opposition as they embark on their massive data center buildout plans risk forgetting a crucial detail: disdain for data centers, and the AI backlash at large, has gone national. Data center opposition is no longer contained to the individual towns and counties playing host to new construction, according to findings…
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Elon Musk to get a billion shares of SpaceX if he can settle a million humans on Mars
When SpaceX published its S-1 on May 20, investors got what they expected: a landmark filing for a company planning the largest IPO in history. What they may not have been ready for was the compensation structure buried inside it, which reads less like a corporate pay package and more like science fiction. The SpaceX…
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OpenAI’s new ‘super app’ boss hopes to persuade users and potential IPO investors that the company is about way more than just chat
OpenAI is planning to turn ChatGPT into a “super app”—an all-purpose AI interface that brings OpenAI’s key products together—as it heads toward an upcoming IPO. At the center of that push is Thibault Sottiaux, the former head of Codex, who has recently been promoted to oversee OpenAI’s core product platform for consumer, business, and developer…
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Exclusive: The AI company powering public safety operations for the 2026 World Cup just raised $250 million
Nick Noone has fallen on his face in front of thousands of people countless times. The son of a mechanic who moonlighted as a mural painter and a Montessori school teacher was a member of Stanford University’s men’s gymnastics team where he met his teammate and future cofounder, Ben Rudolph. Years later, after a stint…
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Exclusive: Upscale AI wants to be the next Cisco—and it just raised another $190 million
Every time computing has fundamentally changed, a new networking company has risen with it. When PCs started connecting to the internet in the 1990s, Cisco and Juniper built the plumbing. When the internet moved into the cloud, Arista and Broadcom took over. Upscale AI is betting AI is that same kind of paradigm shift—and that…
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Over 40,000 American bridges have structurally deficient ratings. Why aren’t we using quantum sensors on them?
Every bridge has parts that drivers never see: steel buried in concrete, welds tucked under girders, and soil packed around foundations below the waterline. A bridge can look fine from the road while rust spreads around steel hidden inside concrete. A small fatigue crack can lengthen. A flood can wash soil away from a pier.…