eBay Inc. agreed to pay almost $50 million to a Massachusetts couple who said former employees of the company targeted them with threats and bizarre anonymous deliveries — including live insects, a funeral wreath and a bloody pig Halloween mask, according to…
The sit-down in the Oval Office, which was closed to the media, followed a consequential meeting at the NATO summit earlier this month in Ankara, Turkey, where Trump announced that the U.S. will give Ukraine a license to make Patriot defense systems — a…
Jensen Huang says AI is going to kill tasks, not jobs—a distinction that could define whether the future of work brings mass unemployment or a new wave of growth and opportunity. Speaking at Y Combinator’s Startup School in San Francisco…
Welcome to Eye on AI. Emily Forlini here. In today’s issue: Nvidia, Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and others publish an open letter about open source Trump administration nears release of AI framework OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman sits down with…
Some people fear heights. Others fear the dark. Some increasingly fear ending up in a stranger’s Instagram Reel, recorded without their knowledge by a pair of what the internet has taken to calling “pervert glasses.” These would be the same…
Illustrated by Liverpool-based designer Stephen Chan, the Feb. 1, 2016, cover of Fortune warned of a fast-approaching reckoning for the tech sector’s billion-dollar unicorn IPOs. The illustration depicts a stampede of unicorns racing for the exit, while the cover line…
In 1993, the classic Britpop band Blur closed “For Tomorrow” with a spoken aside: modern life, as far as their narrator was concerned, was rubbish. It became the title of the album and, eventually, shorthand for a certain flavor of…
Good morning. Tokenmaxxing quickly became one of the buzziest metrics in enterprise AI. Fortune’s Jeremy Kahn reported that tokenmaxxing turned into a status symbol at some big tech companies, where engineers were urged to climb leaderboards by burning more AI tokens.…
Democrat Paige Cognetti is taking a shot at artificial intelligence data centers in her challenge to freshman Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan, saying “we’re not for sale” in a new TV ad in a swing Pennsylvania congressional district where communities are fighting data center projects.…
When I caught up with U.S. media executive Jeff Zucker recently, one thing stood out: he sees the UAE as one of the world’s most exciting places to do business. In the wake of the Banijay-All3Media $8 billion mega-merger, Zucker told me: “The…