Spotify’s latest earnings underscored a new challenge for the Swedish streaming giant: sustaining growth. While the company topped Wall Street expectations for the first quarter—the first fiscal period under new co-CEOs Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström—its sales outlook forecast fell short of analyst estimates, sending shares down roughly 12 percent today (April 28). As the…

In early 2025, a team of five researchers from the AI Futures Project published AI 2027: a scenario document tracing how technological progress, governance choices and geopolitical dynamics would interact and compound over the next several years. The final report concluded that by 2027, it would be plausible for A.I. systems to surpass human cognitive…

Joe Vernachio, Allbirds’ former COO, was appointed CEO in March 2024, replacing co-founder Joey Zwillinger, to turn around the company after years of declining sales and store closures. Less than five years after the sneaker maker‘s $3 billion IPO, Vernachio is now asking shareholders to approve a deal, announced April 15, to sell the company’s…

Earlier this month, a student walked into Erik Brynjolfsson’s office hours with a blunt fear: that she might never find a job in the A.I. era. She worried her generation could be left behind entirely. Brynjolfsson, a Stanford economist who studies technology and labor, doesn’t share that outlook. He calls himself “mindfully” optimistic. “I told her…

Cohere, the Toronto-based startup led by Aidan Gomez, has already established itself as Canada’s A.I. darling. Now, with the acquisition of Germany’s Aleph Alpha, the company is pushing into Europe, pooling talent, compute and national ecosystems to create a new transatlantic alliance. In an A.I. race increasingly dominated by U.S. and Chinese giants, the deal…

On March 14, millions of high school students sat down to take the first SAT of 2026. Each year, the kick-off to peak testing season reignites the same debate: Are standardized tests fair? It’s the wrong question. The test itself isn’t the primary source of inequity in college admissions. The prep system surrounding it is.  …

Earlier this month, Writer co-founder and CEO May Habib took the stage at the HumanX conference in San Francisco to discuss with Bloomberg’s Natasha Mascarenhas why so many companies’ A.I. strategies are failing. In a landscape where 95 percent of enterprise generative A.I. pilots fail to deliver returns, Writer has carved out a role helping…

The use of A.I. in trading has been steadily evolving for years, but an important shift is now underway. Once limited to supporting human traders through analyzing charts, processing data and summarizing news, A.I. is increasingly acting on its own. Over the past year, major exchanges and trading platforms have begun rolling out agent-based systems…

Stockholm produces more unicorns per capita than superstar cities like New York or London, second only to San Francisco. Global success stories like Spotify, Klarna, IKEA, Volvo and H&M were joined in December by Lovable, the fast-rising A.I. startup founded in 2023 and reportedly valued at $6.6 billion. Its rapid ascent adds to a remarkable…

There’s a lot of confusion around 23andMe: Is the company still in business? Is it now owned by Regeneron, the biotech company that once tried to buy it? Are its genetic test kits still available for sale? And if you’re a customer, what happens to your data? It’s been about a year since 23andMe plummeted…