Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff turned his earnings call into a vodcast. Why other Fortune 500 CEOs might follow
All the world’s a stage. Now that’s even true of the usually dull quarterly earnings call.“We’re so thrilled to be here with everybody,” Benioff said, seated at a conference table…
Over 98% of stablecoins are dollar backed. That’s good for the U.S.—until it’s not
Speaking at the Milken Institute conference in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, Haseeb Qureshi of the venture capital firm Dragonfly noted that stablecoins are loosening the iron grip that governments have…
Supermicro CEO insists ‘no one’ beyond indicted employees were involved in alleged $2.5 billion smuggling scheme
Michael Staiger, the VP of corporate development, informed analysts at the onset of the quarterly call that the company would focus on financial results during the call’s Q&A portion. Unmoved,…
A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began
In Saline Township, Michigan, as in most municipalities, homeowners who want to build a new house know what a complicated and lengthy process it can be: Navigating permit requirements, zoning…
The hidden bottleneck holding back American manufacturing isn’t machines — it’s knowledge
The defining story in technology this century is how software has transformed the way we work. We now communicate, share information, and manage companies completely differently from our predecessors in 2000.But…
Clean energy’s winning argument is the one it refuses to make
Conventional wisdom holds that the United States can only maintain its economic primacy in the dawning age of artificial intelligence if we build new electricity generation on an unprecedented scale. That obligation to…
The viral TikTok $1.75 billion bid to save Spirit Airlines is fighting the wrong villain
The site has an interesting, quite populist framing. “Private equity is already circling the wreckage,” it reads. “The passengers, the workers, and the communities Spirit served can take it back.…
Supermicro’s co-founder allegedly smuggled $2.5 billion in Nvidia-chipped servers to China—now the whole company is under the microscope
But at this point, not being named in the indictment is not the same as being entirely in the clear. The company has launched its own internal investigation to be…
Gen Alpha is using makeup to pass age verification tech online. One mom caught her son using an eyebrow pencil
Back in the old days, you’d snag an older sibling’s expired license or put on some makeup and try your best to sneak into a bar or 18 and over…
