Cursor, an A.I. coding tool praised by tech leaders from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang to Google’s Sundar Pichai, has quickly become indispensable for engineers across Silicon Valley. Investors are taking notice, too: the startup announced today (Nov. 13) that it has raised a new Series D round valuing it at an astonishing $29.3 billion. The figure…
Michel Foucault, the late French philosopher and historian, long held the distinction as the only researcher to surpass more than one million citations on Google Scholar. These days, however, Foucault has company: A.I. pioneer Yoshua Bengio. Last month, Bengio became the first living scientist to have his work cited more than one million times on…
Last January, renowned A.I. researcher Fei-Fei Li took a leave of absence from Stanford to trade academia for startup life. Nearly two years later, her venture World Labs has unveiled its first commercial product: a world model Marble. Marble can create 3D virtual worlds from text, images, video or even rough layouts. It builds on…
Andrew Wolff, recognized on this year’s Art Power Index, is reshaping the digital infrastructure of the art market at a scale few imagined even five years ago. As CEO of Beowolff Capital, Wolff made headlines in 2025 with two bold plays: acquiring a controlling stake in Artsy and pursuing a €65 million delisting and takeover…
Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief A.I. scientist, is reportedly leaving the tech giant to launch his own A.I. startup, according to the Financial Times, which cited sources familiar with the matter. His departure comes as Meta increasingly reorients its efforts toward developing advanced forms of A.I. A hiring spree and internal restructuring have prioritized Meta’s research…
Tesla recently lost several key executives responsible for its most well-known electric vehicle models. Siddhant Awasthi, a rising star at Tesla who previously led engineering for the Cybertruck and, most recently, the Model 3, announced in a LinkedIn post on Sunday that he had left the company after eight years. Emmanuel Lamacchia, the program manager…
Last week, White House A.I. adviser David Sacks sent a sharp message to Silicon Valley: the U.S. government won’t rescue A.I. companies that overreach. “There will be no federal bailout for A.I.,” he wrote on X. The statement came in response to comments by Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, who had suggested the company might…
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), the philanthropic vehicle of Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, was launched ten years ago with the goal of improving education, supporting communities and curing diseases. A decade later, however, the organization’s priorities have shifted. What began as a broad social mission has narrowed to focus almost entirely on A.I. and…
Real-world asset (RWA) platforms that offer regulated securities keep launching with the same playbook. They build for one jurisdiction, secure regulatory approval, and announce institutional partnerships, only to hit a wall when they need licensing to offer those assets across borders. The SEC, MiFID II and Singapore’s MAS all impose different rules on who can…
Toyota has long been criticized for its cautious embrace of electric vehicles. But amid slowing demand, tariffs and the phase-out of tax incentives, the world’s largest automaker’s deliberate approach looks increasingly like a smart hedge. The Japanese automaker reported yesterday (Nov. 5) that it sold 4.78 million vehicles globally between April and September, up 12…
