The President and COO of Okta has agents on his team. He’s named them—Leo, Sloan, Hank,…
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‘Godfather of AI’ says we’re not just creating new beings—they’ll be much smarter than us, and soon
Geoffrey Hinton almost didn’t believe he’d won the Nobel Prize. When the committee called in 2024,…
Grey rhinos, black swans, and the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie: What companies get wrong about risk
When Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother was abducted in Arizona earlier this year, the FBI issued an…
The automation illusion: Why AI is making COOs’ jobs harder, not easier
When the COO of Nike, the chief of operations at an $84 billion food distributor, and…
6 years of jersey design, 4 years of prep, 4 weeks of games: Execs at U.S. Soccer and Nike know how much this World Cup means
With less than two weeks until kickoff, the 2026 World Cup—co-hosted by the U.S., Canada, and…
Cognizant CEO is swimming against the tide on AI: he’s hiring over 20,000 graduates this year and says AI tokenmaxxing is a ‘vanity metric’
For months, the loudest voices in artificial intelligence—including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei—warned that…
Why Amy Lee, the niece of Singapore’s first prime minister, helped launch a crypto-friendly bank
When Amy Lee retired from a four-decade-long career in law and finance in 2020, she felt…
‘Nobody’s safe’: Cognizant projected 90% of jobs would be disrupted by 2032—but we’re beyond it 6 years early
In 2023, Cognizant researchers made a prediction that, by their own admission, made people think they’d…
Anthropic confidentially files its S-1 first—but the IPO race with OpenAI is just beginning
Anthropic’s S-1 filing on Monday was confidential, but there’s much we already know about the $965…
Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over allegations of marketing ChatGPT despite serious risks
The state of Florida filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, claiming the company…
2025 was the costliest wildfire year in history—despite burning less land than usual
The global 2025 wildfire season can be summed up with one of two extreme datapoints. It…
Trump administration takes steps to appeal ruling allowing importers to seek tariff refunds
Less than two months after the Trump administration rolled out its electronic tariff refund platform, it…
CEOs are losing confidence in the economy and expect conditions to worsen in the next six months
If you’ve been feeling uncertain about the future of the economy, you’re not the only one.…
The Strait of Hormuz is splitting into U.S. and Iranian lanes even while fighting intensifies
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains just a fraction of pre-war levels, but more ships…
Ann Patchett opened a bookstore everyone said would fail. Now it’s a blueprint
When she isn’t working on a novel, Ann Patchett is often thinking of what she can do for…
Robots are screening robots. Is anyone actually getting hired?
More than half of job candidates are using AI to apply for jobs. Meanwhile, nearly 90%…
A SpaceX-Tesla union would mark the largest merger of all time. But does the math work?
Elon Musk may be about to use SpaceX’s soaring valuation as a lifeline for Tesla—and in…
Mecka AI raises $60 million to train robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones
Data is the oil of the AI boom—and the startup Mecka AI hopes to tap the…
Binance adds U.S. stocks in ‘super app’ push, plans to launch tokenized shares
Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Monday that its users will be able to…
How Kelly Ortberg is rebuilding Boeing from the inside out
Before Boeing named Kelly Ortberg as CEO in August of 2024, the airplane-maker was an enterprise…
Billionaires already couldn’t talk to their grandkids. Now they’re on opposite ends of the AI divide
The scene plays out in family offices from Greenwich to Geneva, in slightly different variations but…