In recent weeks, a slate of today’s most prominent tech figures—Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, AMD CEO Lisa Su, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, among others—took the podium at university commencements to address an anxious Class of 2026, the first cohort to spend their entire college years alongside generative A.I. tools. (ChatGPT was launched in November…
When Sam Liang co-founded Otter.ai in 2016, A.I. was not yet a household buzzword. In the years since, however, the transcription and notes-taking platform has evolved alongside the technology that powers it. Today, its built-in conversational knowledge engine helps users make sense of their business and personal lives by drawing on their own database of…
At the University of Arizona, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was loudly booed as he compared A.I. to previous waves of technological innovation and urged graduates to help “shape” its future. At the University of Central Florida, real estate executive Gloria Caulfield drew loud jeers when she called A.I. “the next industrial revolution.” At commencement…
For years, ambitious students eager to make their mark in Silicon Valley pursued degrees such as computer science, software engineering and data analytics—formerly dependable pathways that, in the age of A.I., have turned precarious. In an unexpected turn, however, at least one degree is now translating into high-profile jobs across the industry: philosophy. As leading…
Ferrari launched its first all-electric vehicle, the Ferrari Luce, to a cacophony of criticism this week, leaving the storied brand stumbling. Following Monday’s launch, the stock dropped 8 percent and didn’t rebound until Thursday, when CEO Benedetto Vigna defended the Luce, saying that customer interest was “strong.” What made the response so unusually broad outside…
When one of his co-founders, Vivek Sodera, urged him to fly to Hawaii for a business conference in 2017, Rahul Vohra hesitated. Superhuman, his A.I.-powered email startup, was still in its early days, and the trip felt like a distraction he couldn’t afford. But on his first afternoon by the pool, he met Shishir Mehrotra,…
At first glance, Andon Market could pass for any typical neighborhood shop in San Francisco’s trendy Cow Hollow district. Inside are artisan snacks, handmade candles and a selection of curated books, including Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. But the most unusual thing about the shop isn’t what it sells. It’s who…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to go public next month. While the hype around it has lifted other space-related stocks, this listing represents far more than a rocket company debuting on the public market. Ahead of its IPO filing, SpaceX acquired Musk’s A.I. startup, xAI, which itself had already absorbed X, the social media platform…
Despite women in the U.S. launching nearly half (49 percent) of new businesses, they received just 2.1 percent of all venture capital funding in 2024. That figure dropped to 1.1 percent in 2025 as investors concentrated funding in A.I. companies. Molly Huyck, who spent more than two decades at PayPal, sees that imbalance as a…
As interest in “vibe coding” spreads rapidly, so is the footprint of Lovable, a Swedish startup known for its A.I. coding tools for non-technical users. After raising $330 million at a $6.6 billion valuation last December, the company opened its first U.S. office in Boston earlier this year—and brought over corporate traditions from its Stockholm headquarters,…
