It’s ‘kind of jarring’: AI labs like Meta, Deepseek, and Xai earned some of the worst grades possible on an existential safety index
A recent report card from an AI safety watchdog isn’t one that tech companies will want to stick on the fridge.Perhaps most glaring was the “existential safety” line, where companies…
Gen Z fears AI will upend careers. Can leaders change the narrative?
Good morning. Are you communicating the purpose of AI with your younger employees? According to new data from Harvard, most fear AI is going to take their jobs.Young Americans see…
Treasury Secretary Bessent insists Trump’s tariff agenda is ‘permanent,’ saying the White House can recreate it even with a Supreme Court loss
The Supreme Court is in the process of deciding the fate of President Trump’s tariffs, but even if the administration loses, it might not matter, said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.“We…
Before running the world’s most valuable company, Jensen Huang was a 9-year-old janitor in Kentucky
The CEO of the world’s most valuable company didn’t learn about America through elite universities or tech incubators. His education started in a rural Kentucky boarding school where the students…
Ray Dalio says ‘a little bit of everything’ is needed to prevent a debt crisis—but it won’t happen anyway
He added: “You need a strong middle because both sides will fight each other and probably get to the point where there are irreconcilable differences and they can’t resolve that—and…
The workplace needs to be designed like an ‘experience,’ says Gensler’s Ray Yuen, as employees resist the return to office
Yet, many workers have dreaded the return to physical offices, and argued that hybrid work allows for flexibility without losing productivity. This presents a new post-pandemic challenge for workplace designers,…
Four key questions about OpenAI vs Google—the high-stakes tech matchup of 2026
Hello, tech editor Alexei Oreskovic, pitching in for Allie. We’ve been enjoying some crisp blue-sky days here in San Francisco in true December fashion. For the folks at OpenAI however,…
Meet Luana Lopes Lara: The 29-year-old ex-ballerina spent college summers working for Ray Dalio and Ken Griffin—now she’s the youngest female self-made billionaire
But before Wall Street even knew her name, she was training to be a professional ballerina in Rio, where she endured brutal 13-hour days.She’d sit through academic classes from 7…
Facing a vast wave of incoming liquidity, the S&P 500 prepares to surf to a new record high
For instance, the CME FedWatch index shows an 87% chance that the U.S. Federal Reserve will deliver an interest rate cut next week, delivering a new round of cheaper money.…
Nintendo’s 98% staff retention rate means the average employee has been there 15 years
“The people who first made Nintendo’s hits are still working at the company,” Keza MacDonald, the author of Super Nintendo, a forthcoming book about the developer, told me recently. “For…
