Peter Thiel has spent 30 years arguing, on political and economic grounds, the regulatory state is the primary obstacle to technological progress. He cofounded Palantir, the surveillance and data-analytics company whose government contracts depend on minimal oversight. He was the…
For 250 years, America benefited from one economic advantage so consistent it was easy to take for granted: the workforce kept growing. A steadily expanding labor force helped the economy adapt through recessions, technological shifts, and periods of disruption. That…
SpaceX stock just handed Wall Street a lesson in bad timing. Days after analysts at more than a dozen banks rolled out price targets that were almost uniformly bullish, the shares tumbled below their $135 IPO price for the first…
Nearly five months into the war in Iran, the conflict has entered a “second round” as bombs fly throughout the Middle East after a temporary truce collapsed. Iran is again threatening passage through the now-infamous Strait of Hormuz, while the…
Once every four years, fans travel across the globe to watch one of the world’s biggest sporting events: the FIFA World Cup. The 2026 World Cup is no exception. For the first time, the tournament has been hosted jointly by…
Workers may believe that they need the right connections or flashy credentials to launch their careers. But sometimes, simply saying yes—and leveraging a stroke of luck—can be the most effective way to get a foot in the door. Raj Subramaniam,…
On Thursday, Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based AI startup, unveiled the latest version of its Kimi large language model, which promises performance close to Anthropic’s Fable 5—perhaps the most powerful publicly available model today—at a fraction of the cost. Kimi K3,…
Is your AI paying off? Today, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar published the scorecard she uses for telling whether you are actually getting economic value from AI spend. For years, software success was measured through adoption—seats, active users, and renewals, Friar…
President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs were supposed to raise billions of dollars in government revenue while reviving American manufacturing. Instead, after a Supreme Court ruling forced the Trump administration to reimburse much of the money it collected, it’s now looking…
AI has become a focal point within the Trump administration, often framed as a two-player race between the U.S. and China. And while U.S. companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic may have developed some of the world’s most advanced AI models,…