Cities join Amazon in cutting ties with license-plate reader Flock following public outcry. ‘Your privacy is totally fine,’ says Ring CEO
What started as a Super Bowl ad about finding lost dogs ended in a multicity contract termination for Flock, not because its technology was featured in the ad, but because…
Trump threatens Spain with trade war after it refuses to roll over and lend its army bases to the Iran effort
“We’re going to cut off all trade with Spain,” Trump told reporters during an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. “We don’t want anything to do with Spain.”It…
Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff believes if people had more doorbell cameras, we may have already ‘solved’ the Nancy Guthrie case
Ring founder and CEO Jamie Siminoff believes police would have “solved” the Nancy Guthrie case if people had more cameras on their doors—including Guthrie’s.“I do believe if they had more…
Top economist says companies are close to a ‘Cortés moment’ on AI, referencing the conquistador who burned his boats and then invaded Mexico
American companies are approaching what one top economist is calling a “Cortés moment” on artificial intelligence—a point of irreversible commitment that could reshape the U.S. labor market in ways not…
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon reveals the career goal he adopted when he was just a 28-year-old assistant: Do not speak unless you can add value
At the time of publication, the fresh-faced Harvard MBA had just been promoted to vice president—climbing the ranks from his position as Weill’s assistant in as little as two years—when…
Trump’s strike on Iran and the new breed of AI wars mean bombs can drop faster than the speed of thought
AI has entered the war room, and it’s not going anywhere anytime soon, according to experts.In a conversation with Fortune, Jones, a lecturer at Newcastle University on war and conflict,…
U.S. oil and gas exporters can’t fill the Middle East supply gap, but Trump’s pledge to insure and protect tankers stems the tide on surging prices
The U.S. leads the world in both crude oil and natural gas production, but the top exporters are already shipping near their capacities, allowing them to reap larger profits but…
Qualcomm CEO: ‘Resistance is futile’ as 6G mobile revolution approaches
I remember sending my first email in the early 1990s, a clunky experience that meant logging on to two different computer systems. I thought it would never replace the much swifter fax. The internet…
Iran’s revenge: drones damage data centers for Amazon Web Services, reveal west’s Achilles Heel
The company’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, said late Monday that two data centers in the United Arab Emirates were “directly struck” and another facility in Bahrain was also…
$15 billion of the insurance industry is at risk from AI, BofA says
BofA disagrees.“Our view is that large language model digital agents can effectively do a non-immaterial portion of the work currently provided by 20-30k independent agents across the United States,” the…
