The use of A.I. agents is becoming increasingly widespread. A recent Cloudera survey of IT leaders across 14 countries found that 56 percent had deployed such tools in the past two years, and 96 percent intended to increase their usage of A.I. agents within the next 12 months. With the promise of speedier, more efficient…
When searching for a way to unite A.I. and Wall Street, Maik Taro Wehmeyer, CEO of A.I. financial services firm Taktile, decided to go literal. Earlier this week, Taktile placed a 300-pound statue of a lobster—a symbol now associated with A.I. due to the OpenClaw agents popularized on Moltbook—in front of Wall Street’s famed Charging…
For most of the last decade, startups have treated regulation as a downstream problem to address only after achieving product-market fit. In A.I., however, that assumption is now outdated. A.I. regulation is diverging sharply across regions, presenting a landscape that is fragmented and often confusing. The European Union has moved decisively toward a prescriptive, risk-based…
The companies building the most capable A.I. models in 2026 are running out of electricity, cooling capacity, chips and the cables connecting them. According to Bridgewater, giants like Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft are set to invest a combined $650 billion into A.I.-related capital spending in 2026 (up from $410 billion in 2025). These are…
In November, Yann LeCun left Meta after 12 years over disagreements with Mark Zuckerberg over the future of A.I. Frustrated with the limitations of large language models (LLMs), the French computer scientist founded AMI Labs, a Paris-based startup focused on developing “world models.” The startup announced today (March 10) that it has raised $1 billion…
Mina Fahmi was working as a program manager at Meta when he became enthralled by the advent of large language models. But while he was exhilarated by A.I.’s rapid progress, something about his interactions with the technology didn’t feel quite right. Fahmi wanted to be able to talk through ideas effortlessly while walking around New…
One might know Palmer Luckey as the 33-year-old CEO of Anduril, the defense tech company with close ties to the U.S. government, or as the prodigy who sold Oculus VR to Facebook at just 21. Luckey’s entrepreneurial journey began even earlier—with ModRetro, a venture he launched as a teenager in Long Beach that has grown from…
As companies race to embed A.I. into their operations, the governance debate has stalled in the wrong place. Regulators deliberate over mandates, policymakers debate guardrails and developers argue over technical controls. These questions are important, but they overlook the most immediate driver of responsible A.I. governance: the people using these systems every day. Without investing…
In Pickle’s early days, founders Brian McMahon and Julia O’Mara racked up more than 4,000 subway rides across New York City, hand-delivering rented clothes to early users of their peer-to-peer fashion app. The grind paid off. Today, Pickle says one in four female Manhattan residents aged 18 to 25 has used the platform, which has…
For over a decade, every crypto exchange moved dollars the same way. Funds went through a partner bank that sat between the platform and the actual payment system. That bank charged fees for the privilege, introduced settlement delays and could exit the relationship whenever regulatory pressure mounted. The arrangement worked well enough during bull markets….
