For decades, pharmaceutical advertising largely revolved around television commercials urging patients to ask their doctors about branded medication. Increasingly, however, drugmakers are investing in a different kind of marketing campaign—one built around trusted athletes who have publicly discussed their own…
When Robinhood and Coinbase went public back in the first half of 2021, the companies occupied very different lanes. Today, the two founder-led firms are clashing on multiple fronts as Robinhood seeks to co-opt large portions of Coinbase’s crypto empire,…
Backlash to the proposed multi-billion private investment in FIFA, the organizer of soccer’s World Cup tournament, has come fast and furious, with cries of ruining ‘the beautiful game.’ According to one insider in the investor camp, however, a major cause…
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…