Winston Weinberg understands what junior associates at law firms need because he was once one of them. In 2022, the then 27-year-old was working at O’Melveny & Meyers when he began experimenting with OpenAI models alongside his roommate, Gabe Pereyra, then a research scientist at Meta. After realizing A.I. could streamline inefficiencies in the legal…
Battery storage is scaling globally at historic speed. In just a few years, grids around the world have added record volumes of battery capacity, driven by renewable penetration, energy security concerns and surging electricity demand. Global installations reached approximately 270 gigawatts (GW)/630 gigawatt-hour (GWh) last year, achieving 43 percent year-over-year growth, with forecasts projecting exponential…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
