Meet the Gen Z college students who turned Excel into a competitive esport—they’re competing in spreadsheet challenges and it’s helping them land jobs
If you’ve ever opened a spreadsheet, chances are you probably didn’t find it particularly fun—or feel eager to open it again in your free time. “When you’re rolling your finger down…
Google is building a bevy of renewable energy in Minnesota—including the world’s largest battery system providing power for a whopping 100 hours
The idea is that renewable power—when coupled with shorter- and long-duration batteries—can finally shed the reliability concerns of critics and offer the equivalent of baseload power provided by fossil fuel…
Have good taste? It may just get you a job during the AI jobs apocalypse, says Sam Altman
His advice? Leverage the one thing AI has so far struggled to replicate: human judgement.“We believe the best research teams are built through context, taste and a real feel for…
Trump orders U.S. government to stop using Anthropic but gives Pentagon six months to phase it out while Hegseth adds supply-chain risk designation
President Donald Trump said Friday he will shut out Anthropic from the federal government after the AI company refused to compromise on how its technology could be used by the…
Emil Michael, the Silicon Valley exec turned Trump official leading the war against Anthropic, has deep ties to the tech world
Anthropic was supposed to be the crown jewel of the Pentagon’s AI push. Its Claude model is one of the few large language systems cleared for certain classified environments and…
CEO of the tech company behind Hinge and Tinder set up an employee hotline where staff can DM him anytime: ‘No hierarchy. No filters. Just real input.’
Rascoff reads every message: Ideas from confidential messages get shared broadly with staff, and when an employee includes their name, he’ll follow up with them directly. And the CEO isn’t all…
Sam Altman tells staff at an all-hands that OpenAI is negotiating a deal with the Pentagon, after Trump orders the end of Anthropic contracts
Sam Altman told OpenAI employees at an all-hands meeting on Friday afternoon that a potential agreement is emerging with the U.S. Department of War to use the startup’s AI models…
The battle over WBD left three big winners on Wall Street—while the thousands who lost out will remain behind the scenes
Such a public battle could have left everyone involved bruised. But investors seem to have decided that no one lost, rewarding all three companies. Least surprising was the 12% leap…
Before AI gains materialize, governments will have to deal with a ‘policy tradeoff,’ Moody’s says: How to handle the massive spending and debt risk
Before artificial intelligence supercharges global productivity, governments will have to deal with an unfortunate reality: The long-awaited economic windfall may be years away, while the bills are coming due now. For…
Trump’s FTC backs off social media regulation despite finding that nearly 20% of America’s children are online for 4 hours or more
In an internet where you’re more likely to interact with bots than actual humans online, while children become more technologically savvy everyday and can navigate phones better than they can…
