Bye-bye, corporate conglomerates. Hello personal conglomerates.

Thirty years ago, the names dominating industries like aerospace, energy, healthcare, mobility, and media would have pointed to General Electric. Today, those same sectors increasingly bring to mind Elon Musk. He is the CEO of Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX, the…

OpenAI launches new MacOS app for agentic coding

Artificial intelligence is already having a seismic impact on how software is written, with much of the grunt work of programming now performed by swarms of agents and subagents. As developers experiment with new interfaces and form factors for human-AI…

UpScrolled’s founder says the social network has zoomed past 2.5M users

The social network UpScrolled, which gained prominence after TikTok’s ownership change in the U.S. in January, has zoomed past 2.5 million users. The company’s founder, Issam Hijazi, announced this milestone during Web Summit Qatar. He detailed the platform’s rapid growth,…

Coalition demands federal Grok ban over nonconsensual sexual content

A coalition of nonprofits is urging the U.S. government to immediately suspend the deployment of Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, in federal agencies including the Department of Defense. The open letter follows a slew of concerning behavior…