Eddy Cue oversees businesses like Apple TV, Apple Music and Apple Podcasts as one of Apple’s top executives. But as a child growing up in Miami, Cue had a different passion: Formula 1 racing. Cue first fell in love with the sport after reading about it in a magazine at a local library and has…
Think about your favorite song, movie or musical. Then consider how you enjoy, watch, listen or engage with that content. The answer? Copyright. Copyright has not disappeared in the age of A.I., but it is being stress-tested in novel ways. Take music, for example. Digital service providers (DSPs) now report tens of thousands of A.I.-generated…
Sure, Sam Altman managed to secure an agreement between OpenAI and the U.S. Department of War amid Anthropic’s public battles with the agency. But in doing so, he may have forfeited something more valuable: public goodwill. The OpenAI CEO acknowledged as much in a social media post, conceding that the deal was rushed. “We shouldn’t…
Like many others with time on their hands and disposable income during the pandemic, Quaid Walker, a Google designer turned entrepreneur, tried to break into watch collecting. He quickly ran into a familiar problem: wait lists. After repeated attempts to purchase coveted luxury timepieces, Walker found himself shut out. That frustration became the impetus for…
When Jack Dorsey announced last week that Block—the parent company of Square, Cash App and Afterpay—would cut its workforce by 40 percent, axing more than 4,000 jobs and reducing its headcount to less than 6,000, the reaction of capital markets was immediate and brutal in its clarity: Block’s stock had surged more than 22 percent…
Block CEO Jack Dorsey’s announcement of an A.I.-driven 40 percent reduction in the company’s workforce—followed by other major firms justifying their own workforce reductions as A.I.-related—triggered immediate speculation about A.I.’s impact on white-collar employment. While the news also prompted an immediate spike of more than 20 percent in Block’s stock price, the more consequential issue…
Jensen Huang is best known for building the world’s dominant A.I. chipmaker. But as surging demand for GPUs has turned Nvidia into a $4.5 trillion powerhouse, the company has quietly expanded its influence far beyond hardware, pouring billions into startups across the A.I. ecosystem. Today, nearly every major player in the industry, from OpenAI to…
In December, Jack Dorsey reached a blunt conclusion: A.I. was advancing too quickly to remain a side project at his fintech company, Block—it had to be at the center of it. Yesterday (Feb. 26), Dorsey unveiled what he called “one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company”: Block will cut roughly 40…
Almost a year ago, on the way to soccer practice, my six-year-old asked a question that felt both innocent and quietly inevitable: “Dad, where does ChatGPT live?” Like many children encountering generative A.I. for the first time, he was trying to place it in the world by giving it a location, a biography and a…
On the eve of the Lunar New Year earlier this month, millions of families across China tuned into the Spring Festival Gala, a long-running state-run variety show that this year delivered what once would have seemed like science fiction: Humanoid robots flipped and spun across the stage, performing synchronized martial arts routines with crisp precision….
