When OpenAI’s Sora 2 launched on Sept. 30, it was billed as a playful experiment in A.I. video generation. Within 48 hours, the app, which lets users create short-form videos from simple text prompts, soared to the top of Apple’s App Store with more than 160,000 downloads. Notably, Japanese franchises such as Pokémon and Mario…
What was once fiction could soon become reality, according to Jeff Bezos, who painted a picture of a world straight out of a sci-fi novella while discussing his space ambitions at Italian Tech Week 2025. In the not-too-distant future, space will be a viable destination for humans, robot workers and key infrastructure alike, said the…
In 2007, Fortune magazine reimagined a classic mafia scene with a Silicon Valley twist: 13 male founders and early employees of PayPal, all long gone from the company, posed at a San Francisco café with slicked-back hair, poker chips and dozens of whiskey glasses. The crowd included some of the most recognizable names in today’s…
The race to scale artificial intelligence has triggered historic investment in GPU infrastructure. Hyperscalers are expected to spend over $300 billion on A.I. hardware in 2025 alone, while enterprises across industries are building their own GPU clusters to keep pace. This may be the largest corporate resource reallocation in modern history, yet beneath the headlines…
Joelle Pineau, recognized on this year’s A.I. Power Index, has long been one of the field’s most influential voices on reproducibility, open science and ethical frameworks in A.I. After nearly eight years leading Meta’s FAIR research division, Pineau made a high-profile move in August to Cohere as its first chief A.I. officer. Pineau is steering…
The end of U.S. electric vehicle tax credits is expected to pose long-term challenges for industry leaders like Tesla. But the policy’s looming expiration fueled a surge in sales in the latest quarter. Tesla delivered 497,099 vehicles in the July-September quarter, a record high and up 7 percent from the same quarter last year. The…
With the first weeks of the fall season underway, October is already shaping up to be an eventful month in space. Alongside satellite launches from Amazon, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (ULA), this month will also see milestones in NASA’s Artemis program—a series of lunar missions designed to prepare for eventual human journeys to Mars—with…
It is well funded, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, and staffed with talent from OpenAI, Google and Meta. But unlike many of its Silicon Valley peers, the new A.I. startup Periodic Labs has no plans to build consumer products or pursue artificial general intelligence (AGI). “Our goal is to create an A.I. scientist,”…
With A.I. leaders like Sam Altman warning of a potential bubble, it might seem logical for investors to pull back. Instead, venture capitalists say they’re doubling down, though in a more deliberate and strategic way. “Every investor I speak to says 90 percent of new investments are in an A.I.-related field,” Gené Teare, senior data…
Why have one CEO when you can have two? That appears to be the philosophy embraced by Spotify as it joins a growing number of companies experimenting with joint leadership structures. Long led by founder Daniel Ek, Spotify announced today (Sep. 30) that longtime executives Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström will step in as co-CEOs…
