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…

What do actor James Franco, former NBA player Jeremy Lin and writer Lisa Brennan-Jobs have in common? They were all students of Esther Wojcicki. Beyond raising future Silicon Valley leaders like Anne and Susan Wojcicki, the educator spent decades pioneering a media program at Palo Alto High School. Watching her students thrive has been “the best…

After years of speculation and quiet succession planning, Apple announced yesterday (April 20) that Tim Cook will step down as CEO in September and be replaced by John Ternus, Apple’s current head of hardware engineering. Cook will transition into the role of executive chairman and welcome Ternus to the board. Needless to say, this is…

Today, Boston Dynamics’ robot dogs—which cost up to $300,000 each—are already patrolling data centers across the United States, guarding the infrastructure powering Big Tech’s generative A.I. The companies building the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence are entrusting its protection to robots. A.I. is, in effect, guarded by robots that themselves run on A.I. There is…

For a while, A.I. enjoyed the rare privilege of being sold as everything all at once: a productivity tool, a growth story, a labor-saving device and, by implication, a cleaner, smarter way of running a business. It was the corporate miracle diet. It helped cut costs, increase output, automate the boring bits and, somehow, remain…

Anthropic began restructuring its leadership and organization in early 2026 as it prepares for a potential IPO. The company, which could go public as early as October at a valuation of up to $630 billion, has recently pulled ahead of competitors in revenue. Its annualized run rate (a prediction of annual revenue based on current…

The tradition of surrealist photography has always aimed to provoke the wonder, curiosity and healthy discomfort of being in a dream. Today, a surreal photo might elicit a knee-jerk accusation: “This is A.I.-generated.”  It’s one of the things A.I. has gotten increasingly good at: making outlandish ideas into images that look like real photographs, in…