Oura Rings, the smart bands made by Finnish company Oura, are seemingly everywhere these days—they’ve been spotted adorning the hands of tech CEOs, celebrities and athletes alike. They’ve even made their way into the Olympics. As Team USA’s inaugural “Official Wearable,” Oura Rings will be provided to U.S. Olympians and Paralympians to track sleep, stress…
Hugging Face, the A.I. startup known for its GitHub-like hosting platform used by millions of developers and businesses, is pushing back against Silicon Valley’s obsession with relentless fundraising and hyper growth. The New York City-based company, which hasn’t raised venture capital in more than two years, is in no rush to seek new funding or…
The last time the U.S. sent astronauts to the Moon was Apollo 17 in 1972. More than half a century later, NASA is preparing to do it again. Artemis II, the agency’s first crewed mission of the Artemis era, will send four astronauts on a 10-day loop around the Moon to demonstrate that its new…
As A.I. adoption accelerates, companies are making sustainability claims they cannot reliably substantiate, using metrics that fail to adequately capture the true environmental costs of A.I. systems. This creates a new risk: even well-intentioned companies committed to sustainability may unintentionally greenwash their activities, undermining public trust, investor confidence and corporate credibility. A.I.’s environmental impacts are…
Money is a recurring motif in the content of Jimmy Donaldson, known on YouTube as MrBeast. Videos from the 27-year-old influencer frequently feature elaborate challenges where winners receive cash prizes or philanthropic efforts where funds are given away. The YouTube star, who runs the platform’s most popular channel with more than 460 million subscribers, is…
For decades, the global financial system has enabled businesses to trade across borders by prioritizing stability and regulatory oversight. Yet despite transactions becoming increasingly digital and global, the pace of settlement has remained largely unchanged. The way value moves across borders today reflects deep structural constraints. International wires operate within narrow windows, and payments often…
Last February, OpenAI co-founder and Tesla Autopilot’s founding engineer, Andrej Karpathy, accidentally coined a now-ubiquitous term when he tweeted about “vibe coding.” The phrase described a form of A.I.-aided coding that lowered the barrier to entry for software engineering and soon took both hobbyists and Silicon Valley by storm. To celebrate the one-year anniversary of that…
For years, Adobe has been the gold standard for image and video software in the enterprise market. But today, it’s facing a very different kind of competition. A wave of A.I.-powered startups can now generate and edit content in seconds, often for a fraction of the cost. Tools like Higgsfield promise instant, click-to-video workflows for…
The Seattle Seahawks may have dominated the Super Bowl. But when it comes to the event’s famed advertisements, A.I. was the real winner. A.I. appeared across nearly one-quarter of this year’s Super Bowl ads, including spots in which Anthropic pledged an ad-free version of Claude, Meta showed off its smart glasses, and Salesforce tapped MrBeast…
Marco Argenti, chief information officer at Goldman Sachs, is leading one of Wall Street’s most aggressive integrations of A.I. He has made a name for himself as an early adoptor of A.I. in finance through initiatives like the GS AI Assistant platform, which is offered to Goldman Sachs employees for tasks such as coding and…
