AI voice models are having a moment, and Alex Smola is seeing it up close. As the founder of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Boson AI, a startup that is set to release its first speech-to-speech model named Higgs RealTime, Smola says…
Good morning. Ticket resellers have long turned to StubHub to hawk their wares, selling seats to concerts and sports games, often at significant markups. But what happens when the CEO of a platform for ticket resellers turns out to be…
A decade ago, Seattle was the poster child of American tech prosperity. Amazon and Microsoft had turned a mid-sized Pacific Northwest city into a magnet for engineers, executives, and capital, adding roughly 40,000 jobs per year at the peak of…
The horse race between Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud computing businesses has gone through various phases over its nearly two-decade history, with the current AI boom pushing the rivalry to a new, and perhaps unsustainable, level of intensity. Each company is…
Global households added a record $40 trillion in wealth in 2025, pushing total household net worth to $570 trillion—a 7.3% jump that outpaced the 5.9% average growth rate seen since 2000—as the world’s overall balance sheet of assets swelled to…
The U.S. and Iran have paused their daily attacks on each other, but the war is not on hold as other forces are expanding the battle space. On Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky made a point of announcing that Ukraine attacked…
To be fair, James Cameron did warn us. Long before OpenAI broke out of its test corral and hacked into Hugging Face, before the internet and Sam Altman were even born, Cameron wrote a screenplay about an autonomous artificial intelligence system that triggers…
Romania shot down a suspected Russian drone after it crossed into its airspace on Sunday — the third such incursion in three days in the Eastern European nation that’s both a European Union and a NATO member, the country’s president said. Two…
Investors were bullish on Sunday evening as the U.S. and Iran continued to halt their attacks on each other, providing space for negotiations that could reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, Wall Street is also looking ahead to a busy…
It was, perhaps, the worst-kept secret in the AI community. In mid-July, online sleuths who obsessively track the internet for signs of new AI models started to whisper about the latest offering from Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup…