Bret Taylor, the board chair at OpenAI and CEO of AI agent startup Sierra, was recently asked in an interview if he agreed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s declaration that someone is going to lose a phenomenal amount of money…
Welcome back. There is a lot of future of transportation news to keep track of, so let’s jump in. It is comeback week, and not just because of my return. The biennial IAA Mobility conference in Munich featured a purposeful…
Google faces a new lawsuit accusing the company of illegally using news publishers’ content to create AI summaries that damage their business. The lawsuit comes from Penske Media, which owns industry publications such as Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety, Hollywood Reporter,…
At the center of every empire is an ideology, a belief system that propels the system forward and justifies expansion, even when the cost of that expansion directly defies the ideology’s stated mission. For European colonial powers, it was Christianity…
How much do foundation models matter? It might seem like a silly question, but it comes up a lot in conversations with AI startups. These companies are increasingly comfortable with businesses that were once dismissed as “GPT wrappers,” meaning they…
Tesla shareholders are set to vote in November on a proposed ten-year compensation package for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth up to one trillion dollars. Board chair Robyn Denholm recently spoke to defend what would be the largest…
California’s state senate gave final approval early on Saturday morning to a major AI safety bill that sets new transparency requirements for large companies. As described by its author, state senator Scott Wiener, SB 53 requires large AI labs to…
Hike, once one of India’s most valuable startups with unicorn status, has become the latest casualty of New Delhi’s recent real-money gaming ban. The company, led by Kavin Bharti Mittal, son of Airtel founder Sunil Bharti Mittal, is now shutting…
President Donald Trump made countering immigration one of his flagship issues during his presidential campaign, promising an unprecedented number of deportations. In his first eight months in office, that promise resulted in around 350,000 deportations. This figure includes deportations by…
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI laid off 500 team members on Friday night, according to internal messages viewed by Business Insider. The emails reportedly announced an immediate strategic pivot, with the company deciding to accelerate the expansion of its specialist…
