This is the web version of Eye on A.I., Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering artificial intelligenceand business. To get it delivered weekly to your in-box, sign up here. William Gibson, the science fiction writer, famously said that the future is already here, it’s…
A single large AI data center now consumes as much electricity as a city of 80,000 people. The companies building them are putting up hundreds simultaneously, in places the grid was never designed to reach, on timelines that utility companies,…
A summer travel paradox has emerged: Even though international flights use considerably more jet fuel than domestic travel, the cost to fly within the U.S. has skyrocketed at rates far beyond that of flying abroad. According to data from airfare…
Michael Dell is having a banner year. His eponymous company is a key supplier in the data center buildout, selling Nvidia-based servers, racks, cooling and support to CoreWeave and xAI, while working with Nvidia, Google and OpenAI on systems that…
When Nike brought Elliott Hill out of retirement almost two years ago to helm the sports conglomerate, it was with the intention of turning the brand’s strained relationships with athletes and retailers around in what Hill would later call a…
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI! In this newsletter…Elon Musk is reportedly raising xAI funding at a $40 billion valuation… Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot goes beyond OpenAI, striking deals with Anthropic and Google… AI ‘slop’ floods Medium… Apple Intelligence gets…
Welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…AI is outperforming some professionals…Google plans to bring ads to Gemini…leading AI labs team up on AI agent standards…a new effort to give AI models a longer memory…and the mood turns on LLMs…
Overnight, Victoria Bonya went from being a Russian influencer known for exercise routines and cosmetic endorsements into a catalyst for widespread public discontent about the state of her home country’s society and economy. Bonya, a former television presenter in Russia…
On occasion, there are times where you win by losing. That may be how Netflix is feeling this week amidst the news that Comcast plans to spin off its NBCUniversal Media business from its legacy telecommunications business. Just as nobody…
The “everyday millionaire” has a problem. It’s not money. It’s math. In 2025, UBS coined the term EMILLI — Everyday MILLIonaire — to describe the 401(k) maximizer, the dual-income homeowner, the diligent index-fund investor who looked up one day and…