The most valuable workers in technology cannot be kept, whatever the price. That is the uncomfortable admission running through the AI industry this week, as elite researchers keep hopping between labs that have offered them almost everything money can…
Space-Eyes, a Miami geospatial-intelligence company backed by Eric Trump, plans to go public through a $638 million blank-cheque deal, deepening the family’s defence-tech ties. A defence-technology company backed by Eric Trump is preparing to go public…
Steven Bartlett has built one of the world’s biggest podcasts on the idea that the right people, obsessively managed, make the machine. Now four of those people have walked out the door. The star host of “The Diary of a CEO” has lost four core staffers…
The man whose company is trying to get the world to use AI for everything has named a risk he thinks almost no one is talking about: that people will let it do so much of their thinking that their own minds go slack. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executiv…
Disney’s new chief executive wants to rebuild its streaming service into something bigger than a place to watch films. Josh D’Amaro, who took over from Bob Iger in March, is exploring turning Disney+ into a “super app” that would fold streaming togethe…
The president says voice will replace typing and the hardware is coming ‘soon,’ while brushing off Apple’s lawsuit: “we have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets.” OpenAI is not building one gadget but several, its president Greg Brockman has …
BuzzFeed bet on AI to rescue itself. This week it laid off another third of its staff. The bet, it turns out, was never the thing that could save it. The company cut about 180 jobs on Monday, roughly a third of its remaining workforce, the New York Tim…
Six months ago, Anthropic was the darling of America’s AI boom. It led on the models and was loudest on the ethics. This summer, it finds itself alone. The Claude maker is now the odd one out in nearly every big AI policy fight, Axios reported. It is t…
Mark Zuckerberg has come out against one of Washington’s favourite ideas about artificial intelligence: that the way to beat China is to shut its models out. In an interview with the Financial Times published this week, Meta’s chief executive said bann…
John Ternus has spent 24 years engineering Apple’s hardware, and when he takes over as chief executive on 1 September, he inherits a company defined by iPhones and silicon rather than prestige television. Yet one of the first things Apple’s incoming bo…