Charlie Munger once told a story about a town that built a single, magnificent grain silo. It reduced costs. It impressed visitors. It eliminated redundancy. For years, it worked perfectly. Then one wet season, moisture entered at the base and the entire harvest spoiled at once. The neighboring town kept five smaller silos spread across…
Jeff Bezos has been keeping a low profile since stepping in as co-CEO of Project Prometheus, the code name for his secretive A.I. startup, last year. But behind the scenes, he’s been busy. The company has been raising fresh capital, pursuing acquisitions and aggressively recruiting top talent across Silicon Valley. One of its newest hires…
If you traveled back in time to the end of the 16th century and visited the Laurentian Library in Florence, you would discover that the books—precious manuscripts from classical civilization—were chained to the desks. Looking back five centuries makes it easy to see how far we’ve come, and how technological and societal advancements have dramatically…
Amol Avasare, Anthropic’s head of growth, landed his job through a cold email in 2024 to Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s chief product officer, best known for co-founding Instagram. When Avasare first joined the company, sales were in the hundreds of millions. Annualized revenue hit roughly $1 billion by the end of the year, rose to $9 billion…
Despite stepping down as Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO a few months ago, Warren Buffett isn’t easing into retirement. The investing icon still drives into Berkshire’s Omaha headquarters five days a week, offering advice and weighing in on deals, though the final call now rests with his handpicked successor, Greg Abel. In his first interview since the…
Agentic A.I. is no longer a technology on the horizon. It is being deployed today in live enterprise environments, with real operational consequences. In 2026, the conversation in most boardrooms has already shifted from “should we pay attention to this?” to “how do we move safely and most effectively?” The vendor landscape is not making…
Elon Musk and a circle of institutional and elite individual investors are set for enormous gains as SpaceX has confidentially filed with the SEC to go public, multiple news outlets reported yesterday (April 1). The IPO, expected as early as June, could value SpaceX at over $1.75 trillion and raise as much as $50 billion,…
When you think of Apple, you probably picture Steve Jobs, the visionary behind its revolutionary designs, or Tim Cook, the soft-spoken Southerner who turned Apple into a global business powerhouse. But in the company’s 50-year history, seven people have held the top job. The lineup ranges from Apple’s first CEO, Michael Scott (no, not that…
In the absence of durable systemic solutions, American travelers are left to do that most American of things: fend for themselves. | Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty Images I’m scheduled to take my 1-year-old on a three-hour flight just over a week from now. Probably a headache, under normal circumstances, but a bona fide nightmare amid…
Father Brendan McGuire is writing a novel about a disenchanted monk and his A.I. companion. He’s doing it with Claude. That detail—a Catholic priest using Anthropic’s chatbot to explore questions of faith and artificial consciousness—tells you something about where Silicon Valley’s moral reckoning has arrived. McGuire, 60, leads St. Simon Catholic Parish in Los Altos, Calif.,…
