‘Run, Don’t Walk’: Jensen Huang’s Message to College Graduates on A.I.’s Future
Fears that A.I. could displace human workers have become a defining concern for younger generations. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sees it differently. The technology, he argues, has “kick-started a revolutionary wave”—one today’s graduates are well positioned to ride. “I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life’s work,” Huang said during a keynote…
A.I. Adoption Is Surging. Data Governance Is Not Keeping Up.
A few years after the launch of consumer A.I., companies are racing to build governance structures, appointing chief A.I. officers, drafting policies and formalizing oversight processes. The goal is to ensure that A.I. adoption delivers measurable value while minimizing operational, legal and reputational risks. But in the scramble to establish new frameworks, organizations are overlooking…
ServiceNow’s Customer Chief Warns ‘Tokenmaxxing’ Is an A.I. Hype Cycle
Tech workers are burning through massive amounts of A.I. compute in a race to code faster and automate more work. In Silicon Valley, the practice is known as “tokenmaxxing,” where employees push their use of ChatGPT and other large language models to the limit to maximize productivity. The trend has accelerated alongside the rise of…
Quantum Computing Is Testing Bitcoin’s Most Important Assumption
Earlier this month, StarkWare’s chief product officer Avihu Levy published a proposal that has been the focus of active debate within the Bitcoin community. His scheme, Quantum Safe Bitcoin (QSB), allows users to transact in a way that remains secure even against a large-scale quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm, and it does so without requiring…
Early Nvidia Investor Mark Stevens Gives $200M to USC for A.I. Push
Mark Stevens, a venture capitalist and early Nvidia investor, and his wife, Mary, are donating a staggering $200 million to the University of Southern California to accelerate A.I. research and education across the institution. The gift will help the 145-year-old university position itself as a “trailblazer” in A.I., according to Stevens, a USC alumnus. The…
Every airline is Spirit Airlines now
Some analysts predict that the closure of Spirit Airlines will push other airlines’ fares up. | Giorgio Vera/AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Anyone booking on Spirit Airlines kind of knew they were taking their flight…
Corporate Governance in the Age of Geopolitics
A new operating landscape is here. If there are corporate boards that have not, as of spring 2026, recognized that geopolitics and geoeconomics have entered the boardroom and are completely overhauling the interiors, they may already be costing shareholders far more value than they create. Recent developments make this shift difficult to ignore. The Chinese…
Apple’s Tim Cook Shares His Advice for Incoming CEO John Ternus
When former Apple CEO Steve Jobs passed the reins to Tim Cook in 2011, he left him a simple piece of advice: “Never ask what I would do. Just do the right thing.” Fifteen years later, that advice appears to have paid off. Under Cook, Apple’s market cap has climbed more than 1,000 percent, while…
Fintech’s Next Growth Constraint Is Liquidity
Liquidity has become the defining test of whether cross-border finance can scale. In the final quarter of 2025, Visa began testing new funding models to move money across borders without relying as heavily on prefunded accounts. More recently, Mastercard moved to acquire stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK in a deal that points in the same direction….
Cybersecurity’s A.I. Problem Isn’t Technology. It’s Human.
Artificial intelligence is not new to cybersecurity. The sector is one of A.I.’s earliest adopters. For years, defensive cybersecurity has relied on machine learning to identify anomalies, detect patterns and respond to threats with speed and precision beyond any human capability. What is new is the speed, scale and accessibility of A.I., and the way…



