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…
Robert Opp, featured on this year’s A.I. Power Index, is one of the clearest voices urging the world to slow down—not in innovation, but in assumption. As chief digital officer of the United Nations Development Programme, Opp is guiding A.I. and data strategy across more than 170 countries. That global perspective has made him deeply…
In boardrooms, creativity is often conflated with charisma—a founder’s flash of insight, a strategist’s “feel” for the market. The rise of creative A.I. complicates that mythology. Systems that once mimicked patterns are beginning to originate them, not by feeling their way through ambiguity, but by searching vast spaces of possibilities with tireless composure. The question…
Nvidia may be dominating the graphics processing unit (GPU) market right now, but its closest rival, AMD, is catching up. Today, (Oct. 6), AMD announced a landmark collaboration with OpenAI that mirrors a recent deal between OpenAI and Nvidia. Under the agreement, AMD will deploy six gigawatts of computing power to OpenAI, which will in…
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…
