Tucked away inside a WeWork meeting room in Lower Manhattan, Edward Tian pulls up a Google Doc on his laptop titled “Secret Master Plan,” a draft outlining his startup’s growth strategy. The 25-year-old co-founder and CEO of GPTZero taps the trackpad and grins. “Eighty-three percent is me. Seventeen percent is my co-founder Alex,” Tian said,…
Elon Musk’s xAI is losing one of its founding members. Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of the developer behind Grok, announced yesterday (Aug. 13) that he is departing the company to start his own venture capital firm focused on A.I. startups. “Today was my last day at xAI, the company that I helped start with Elon…
The A.I. boom has helped make Nvidia the world’s most valuable publicly traded company with a market cap of $4.3 trillion. But CEO Jensen Huang envisions the company’s future to center around physical A.I. At its SIGGRAPH conference on Aug. 11, Nvidia unveiled a suite of A.I. models aimed at advancing physical A.I. systems, including…
Tesla has officially ended its Dojo supercomputer project, closing out a four-year effort to develop one of the world’s most powerful A.I. training systems and marking a major shift in Tesla’s A.I. ambitions. CEO Elon Musk announced the shutdown in a series of posts on X over the weekend. He also confirmed that the entire…
Leading A.I. developers are locked in a high-stakes race not just to build cutting-edge models, but also to secure scarce chips and strengthen ties with Washington. Earlier this month, OpenAI made headlines by offering ChatGPT to the U.S. executive branch for a nominal $1 a year. Its rival Anthropic, not to be outdone, is now…
President Donald Trump has sharply reversed course on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Just days after blasting Tan as “highly conflicted” and demanding his immediate resignation over alleged national security risks, Trump is now praising his “success and rise” following a face-to-face meeting at the White House yesterday Aug. 11. “The meeting was a very interesting…
The E.U. tech scene is failing miserably. Or at least, that’s what the global narrative would have you believe. According to Pitchbook data, the U.S. tech sector alone accounts for 51.4 percent of the world’s 1,489 active unicorns, with 729 U.S.-based companies valued at $1 billion or more. Europe, by comparison, claims fewer than half…
Last week, OpenAI launched the highly anticipated GPT-5, billing it as its smartest, fastest and most powerful A.I. model yet. But what was meant to be a landmark moment quickly turned messy—plagued by technical hiccups, a tepid reception, and backlash over the sudden removal of its predecessor, GPT-4o. The uproar over GPT-4o’s disappearance was so…
It’s an exciting time for space research as NASA eyes a future of longer and more ambitious space missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond through programs like the Artemis program. But venturing deeper into the cosmos also means astronauts will be farther from Earth—and therefore from medical professionals, equipment and real-time advice they might…
America’s geopolitical future increasingly hinges on private technology, and corporations wield influence once reserved for nation-states. Few cases better illustrate the risks of outdated governance standards than Intel—once a national champion, now at the center of a high-stakes global competition. But with that influence has come a troubling trend: strategic decisions by corporate boards that…
