Agentic A.I. is no longer a technology on the horizon. It is being deployed today in live enterprise environments, with real operational consequences. In 2026, the conversation in most boardrooms has already shifted from “should we pay attention to this?” to “how do we move safely and most effectively?” The vendor landscape is not making…
Elon Musk and a circle of institutional and elite individual investors are set for enormous gains as SpaceX has confidentially filed with the SEC to go public, multiple news outlets reported yesterday (April 1). The IPO, expected as early as June, could value SpaceX at over $1.75 trillion and raise as much as $50 billion,…
When you think of Apple, you probably picture Steve Jobs, the visionary behind its revolutionary designs, or Tim Cook, the soft-spoken Southerner who turned Apple into a global business powerhouse. But in the company’s 50-year history, seven people have held the top job. The lineup ranges from Apple’s first CEO, Michael Scott (no, not that…
In the absence of durable systemic solutions, American travelers are left to do that most American of things: fend for themselves. | Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty Images I’m scheduled to take my 1-year-old on a three-hour flight just over a week from now. Probably a headache, under normal circumstances, but a bona fide nightmare amid…
Father Brendan McGuire is writing a novel about a disenchanted monk and his A.I. companion. He’s doing it with Claude. That detail—a Catholic priest using Anthropic’s chatbot to explore questions of faith and artificial consciousness—tells you something about where Silicon Valley’s moral reckoning has arrived. McGuire, 60, leads St. Simon Catholic Parish in Los Altos, Calif.,…
Jay Graber, the former Bluesky CEO who recently moved into the role of chief innovation officer, has been in her new position for just a month. Yet her tenure has already produced a major release: Attie, an agentic app designed to help users customize their social media feeds and algorithms. Attie reflects many of the…
In November, a 60-kilogram satellite the size of a small refrigerator called Starcloud-1 streaked into low Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX rocket carrying the first data-center-class GPU ever operated in space—an Nvidia H100 roughly 100 times more powerful than any prior orbital compute. Within weeks, Starcloud, the company making the satellite, announced it had trained…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently made two moves that say more about the company’s future than any product launch could. On March 23, he stepped down as chairman of Helion Energy, the fusion startup he has backed for more than a decade, as OpenAI explores a large-scale power deal with the company. A day later,…
Unsplash+ From prompt injection to MLOps vulnerabilities to models that inadvertently memorize patient data, the attack surfaces introduced by A.I. in pharmaceutical research have moved well beyond what traditional compliance frameworks were ever built to address. Safeguarding sensitive information has become a defining challenge for modern organizations, especially in high-stakes fields such as drug development,…
OpenAI, founded in 2015 as a nonprofit devoted to ensuring A.I. benefits all of humanity, drew criticism after creating a capped‑profit subsidiary in 2019 and was accused by figures such as co‑founder Elon Musk of drifting from its mission. That chapter effectively closed last year when OpenAI converted to a public benefit corporation and granted…
