For more than a century, early October has marked the arrival of Nobel Prize announcements recognizing achievements across sciences, literature and peace. Recipients vary by nationality, age and gender but share one thing in common: they’re human. That could change in the coming decades if the team behind the Nobel Turing Challenge succeeds. Launched in…
Simon Kohl, recognized on this year’s A.I. Power Index, stands at the leading edge of a scientific transformation: the fusion of A.I. and biology. A co-developer of AlphaFold2—the Nobel Prize-winning breakthrough that cracked one of biology’s grand challenges—Kohl has now turned his focus from understanding life’s molecular machinery to authoring it. As co-founder and CEO…
Between the U.S. government shutdown and ongoing economic uncertainty, it’s a turbulent time for airlines. But not for Delta, the largest American airline by market capitalization, which has emerged from the industry’s recent challenges largely unscathed as its investment in high-end travel begins to pay off. Delta shares jumped more than 4 percent today (Oct….
At the start of the year, Chinese A.I. startup DeepSeek jolted Silicon Valley with a powerful open-source model that rivaled Western systems at a fraction of the cost. Out of that shockwave came Reflection AI, a New York-based startup founded by top A.I. researchers that has just raised $2 billion to build similarly accessible technology….
Yesterday (Oct. 8) in Maranello, Italy, luxury automaker Ferrari lifted the hood on its first all-electric vehicle, the Elettrica, after five years in development—while simultaneously halving its electric ambitions. The new car marks Ferrari’s long-awaited entry into the EV market, but also underscores the company’s reluctance to fully embrace an electric future at a time…
OpenAI’s newest video generator, Sora 2, is rapidly reshaping the social media landscape. Released on Sept. 30, the text-to-video model lets users create short, vertical clips of virtually anything and then share, remix and interact with other users’ videos in a way that feels closer to TikTok than to traditional A.I. tools. Sora has quickly…
Stablecoins processed over $27 trillion in payments during 2024, prompting regulators worldwide to rush to create clear rules. In the span of just 12 months, the U.S. passed the GENIUS Act, the E.U. implemented MiCA and Hong Kong launched its own licensing regime. Regulatory uncertainty around payments has collapsed from 85 percent to 25 percent…
For decades, restaurants were built on a single transaction: the table. Guests dined, paid and left. Loyalty was anecdotal—a bartender remembering a favorite drink or a maître d’ recognizing a face. The pandemic shattered that simplicity. To survive, operators spun up delivery, subscriptions, events and merchandise. Now the industry is scrambling to be “guest-focused” in…
A few years ago, the concept of a widely successful prediction market seemed little more than a pipe dream, one littered by past failures and mostly confined to academic circles. Flash forward to 2025, and the ruse of Polymarket—the world’s largest prediction market—has made its 27-year-old founder and CEO, Shayne Coplan, the youngest self-made billionaire,…
If you’ve taken a New York City subway recently, you’ve likely seen an advertisement for Friend, a San Francisco-based startup selling A.I. companionship in the form of a $129 wearable pendant. The campaign has sparked mixed reactions, to say the least. Many of the minimalistic posters, which liken the A.I. device to a friend or…
