Shishir Mehrotra’s Push to Remake Grammarly Shows the Risks of A.I. Leadership
Shishir Mehrotra’s push to turn Grammarly, now parent-branded as Superhuman, into an A.I. powerhouse has delivered a major backlash. In less than a year as CEO, he has rebranded the company, led acquisitions and pushed an aggressive pivot into A.I. agents. But one of those tools, an A.I. “Expert Review” feature launched last summer, has…
Fintech’s A.I. Adoption Race: Innovation Outpacing Institutional Readiness
The transition of A.I. from the experimental stage into real financial infrastructure may seem subtle, but it is unfolding steadily and quickly. Until recently, most projects remained pilot initiatives. According to PwC, in the financial sector, more than two-thirds of projects stayed at the trial-launch or research stage. The industry was testing the technology, but…
Jensen Huang Bets on OpenClaw With Nvidia’s New NemoClaw Agent Platform
Nvidia is betting that the future of corporate A.I. will run on OpenClaw and that it will be the company making that happen. At its GTC conference yesterday (March 15), CEO Jensen Huang unveiled NemoClaw, a new enterprise agent platform built on top of viral open-source system OpenClaw, positioning Nvidia as the secure way for…
Matt Garman, the Low-Profile Engineer Driving Amazon’s A.I. Infrastructure Push
On a humid stretch of land in northwest Louisiana, construction crews will soon begin preparing the ground for one of the largest digital infrastructure projects in the U.S. On Feb. 23, Amazon announced plans to invest $12 billion to build a network of data center campuses in Caddo and Bossier Parishes—a cornerstone of its expanding…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan Says A.I. Is Changing Who Gets Into YC
When Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launched his first startup in the 2000s, he worked such long hours that he took anti-narcoleptic medication just to stay awake. Today, he no longer needs pills to power through his schedule thanks to the help of A.I. Tan, who says he sleeps only about four hours a night,…
Self-Help Expert Mark Manson Creates App to Bridge A.I.’s Mental Health Gap
Ten years after publishing The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, bestselling author and blogger Mark Manson is turning to A.I. to tackle some of his audience’s toughest life questions. He recently co-founded Purpose, an A.I.-powered mentor designed to deliver practical life advice—something Manson says most general chatbots, like ChatGPT, aren’t built to do. Manson…
Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström Puts Listeners in Charge of Taste Algorithms
Gustav Söderström, one of Spotify’s new co-CEOs, has only been at the helm of the Swedish streaming giant for a couple of months. But he’s already making his mark with a whirlwind of features designed to give users more control over how they consume music. His latest move, unveiled onstage at this year’s SXSW yesterday…
Human Capital as a Competitive Moat in the Age of A.I. Agents
The use of A.I. agents is becoming increasingly widespread. A recent Cloudera survey of IT leaders across 14 countries found that 56 percent had deployed such tools in the past two years, and 96 percent intended to increase their usage of A.I. agents within the next 12 months. With the promise of speedier, more efficient…
Taktile CEO Maik Taro Wehmeyer Takes A.I. to Wall Street in Bold Lobster Stunt
When searching for a way to unite A.I. and Wall Street, Maik Taro Wehmeyer, CEO of A.I. financial services firm Taktile, decided to go literal. Earlier this week, Taktile placed a 300-pound statue of a lobster—a symbol now associated with A.I. due to the OpenClaw agents popularized on Moltbook—in front of Wall Street’s famed Charging…
How Regulatory Fragmentation Is Reshaping A.I. Startups
For most of the last decade, startups have treated regulation as a downstream problem to address only after achieving product-market fit. In A.I., however, that assumption is now outdated. A.I. regulation is diverging sharply across regions, presenting a landscape that is fragmented and often confusing. The European Union has moved decisively toward a prescriptive, risk-based…



