In April, Nikesh Arora applied a simple but unsettling test to his $300 billion cybersecurity company, Palo Alto Networks: He turned loose on the company’s internal infrastructure an unreleased version of a terrifyingly powerful new AI model called Mythos, created…
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition: Highlights from the Fortune AIQ Summit. Trump names Clayton AI czar and appoints ‘Superintelligence Task Force.’ OpenAI, Anthropic and their insurers face mounting legal claims over ‘rogue AI’ agents. A…
When Hell Grind debuted in Cannes, France, this spring, the action film garnered no buzz from the involvement of an A-list movie star or an Oscar-winning director. Instead, what caught the public’s attention was that Hell Grind was created with…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Light streamed through stained-glass windows in a former church, illuminating long white tables where weary men gathered. Johnny Henderson was glad for the rest. The 71-year-old — who has one arm, heart disease and vision problems…
Early this year, it seemed all but certain that Citgo Petroleum—the Houston oil refiner familiar to American drivers, but little known as a Venezuelan subsidiary—was about to fall into the hands of a U.S. activist hedge fund. In November 2025,…
For most of the last decade, AJ Scaramucci has built companies nobody outside his network was watching. He backed a bitcoin miner years before it became a Trump family venture. He wrote the first check into a satellite ground-station startup…
When Compass recently debuted a new AI assistant to 83,000 real estate agents, the company’s senior leadership used every sales tactic in their arsenal to encourage adoption. The real-estate brokerage held a demo day to announce the launch of the…
Last week the debate was whether the AI industry was about to slow down. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei called for the industry to pace itself for safety reasons, semis sold off, the Journal ran a piece on whether an AI slowdown…
Families can use a gift of equity to help the next generation achieve their dream of homeownership, while also keeping their cherished homes in the family. This strategy, in which the seller transfers part of the home’s value to the…
Hours after Better.com founder Vishal Garg was ousted as CEO this summer, the board member picked to replace him texted Garg after midnight. “You are the last person I am texting tonight—you are on my mind,” interim CEO Daniel Lewis…