AI “seems much worse for the math people than the word people,” Peter Thiel tersely said in 2024. He likely wasn’t anticipating that just two years later his Palantir cofounder, CEO Alex Karp, would use some decidedly flowery language to…
In 2023, as Dario Amodei was fundraising for the company’s $750 million Series D round, an investor was seated with the CEO at a dinner when he recalled him getting worked up in a conversation about safety issues around artificial…
After months of infighting over the Department of Homeland’s handling of ICE’s immigration crackdown, President Trump announced on Thursday that he will replace Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem with Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a junior senator hailing from the…
It’s the second vote in as many days, after the Senate defeated a similar measure along party lines. Lawmakers are confronting the sudden reality of representing wary Americans in wartime and all that entails — with lives lost, dollars spent and alliances tested…
Google is facing a new federal lawsuit from the father of a 36-year-old man, who alleges the company’s AI chatbot, Gemini, convinced his son to commit suicide and to stage a “mass casualty event” near Miami International Airport. The lawsuit…
China has signaled continuity rather than change for its economy, setting a slightly lower target for growth this year in the midst of a property slump and other headwinds at home and growing uncertainty abroad. Premier Li Qiang announced a target of…
Vinod Khosla isn’t packing his bags. As a wave of Silicon Valley billionaires quietly (or even loudly) sever ties with California over a proposed wealth tax that could levy a one-time 5% charge on assets held by residents worth $1…
Beast Industries fired a MrBeast video editor this week following accusations of insider trading by the prediction market operator Kalshi. Kalshi announced last month that a user who traded about $4,000 on streaming markets related to MrBeast videos with “near-perfect” success…
The Berkshire boss said in a CNBC interview Thursday he would use his entire $15 million after-tax salary (his salary is $25 million for 2026) to purchase shares of the company he took over in January each year for as…
On February 20, Anthropic released Claude Code Security, a new AI-powered code-scanning tool. By the end of the trading day, billions had disappeared from cybersecurity stocks. CrowdStrike dropped 10%, Zscaler fell 11%, Okta lost 9%. But Anthropic did not launch…