Anthropic, long known in Silicon Valley for its high-performance A.I. models and API ecosystem used across tech, finance and major consumer brands, is now pushing into the industrial sector. The company this week announced a partnership with IFS Nexus Black—the innovation arm of enterprise software giant IFS, whose customers include Lockheed Martin, Exelon and Quanta…
At the end of every episode of creator Vince Gilligan’s new Apple TV+ drama Pluribus, a brief message appears with the credits: “This show was made by humans.” It might as well be a declaration of war on A.I.’s creeping presence in Hollywood. The Breaking Bad creator has been outspoken in his distrust of A.I.,…
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…
