Anthropic, an AI company that has pushed for stronger safety protocols, faced a White House clampdown on its latest models over security risks, highlighting the tension between AI safety advocacy and …
A UC Berkeley graduate who was laid off from an entry-level PR job seven months after starting found her next role by cold emailing hospitality businesses in the Bay Area. She created a targeted list …
Three more Big Tech executives, including Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht, Sutter Hill Ventures CTO Sam Pullara, and former Reddit executive Serkan Piantino, have joined the Army Reserve as senior officers…
SpaceX announced it is acquiring AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, marking its first major acquisition after a record-breaking IPO. The deal, expected to close in Q3 2026, will make Cursor a w…
Consumer Reports found that Uber and Lyft use AI to charge different customers significantly different prices for the same ride at the same time, with one route in Kansas City generating 29 different …
Toptal CEO Taso Du Val is revising his remote work strategy due to AI, now advocating that 80% of employees can work remotely while 20%—those focused on complex AI work—should be in person. He plans t…
David Selinger, CEO of Deep Sentinel, worked at Amazon in the early 2000s as manager of customer behavior research, meeting with Jeff Bezos once or twice a week. Selinger describes Bezos as intensely …
AI training startup Mode Inc has acquired two consumer apps, Trimbox and QR Code Reader, bringing its total buyouts to seven in the past year. The company pays users for their data, including receipts…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas shared two founder lessons from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla CEO Elon Musk on the '20VC' podcast, emphasizing Huang's mentality of being 30 days from going out of …
Microsoft is using Amazon Web Services to add computing capacity for GitHub after AI-driven demand caused dozens of outages in 2026. The move is notable because Microsoft and AWS are cloud rivals, but…
Trump administration officials met Monday with Anthropic to discuss a truce after an export ban forced the AI startup to pull its latest model from the market. The ban, the first time the White House …
The Pentagon's generative AI platform, GenAI.mil, now has 1.5 million daily users among Defense Department workers, up from fewer than 100,000 six months ago, according to Chief Technology Officer Emi…
The White House imposed export controls on Anthropic's cybersecurity-focused AI models Mythos 5 and Fable 5, citing national security concerns, leading Anthropic to suspend access. The move bolsters M…
Factory CEO Matan Grinberg bought each of his first 30 employees a $3,000 Eight Sleep mattress cover to improve their sleep and cognitive performance, comparing the need for rest to that of profession…
Mars Snacking is shifting from broad TV ads to personalized marketing powered by consumer data and AI, according to chief brand officer Rankin Carroll. The company is using Publicis' Connected ID syst…
A PwC analysis of over 1 billion global job ads found that employers in AI-exposed fields increasingly expect entry-level workers to have skills traditionally required of senior staff, such as leaders…
Steven Lowe, a 41-year-old Brooklyn resident, was laid off from his six-figure art director role at StubHub in April 2025 after just over a year, plunging him back into a frustrating job search in a s…
Consulting firms are hiring entry-level workers despite AI disruption, with salaries remaining stable. Bain & Company offers a base salary of $112,000, Boston Consulting Group $110,000, McKinsey & Com…
College junior Drew Dawson spent $449 on AI subscriptions in May, including Anthropic's $200/month Claude Max plan, which he uses for side projects. Other heavy users like CTO Sterling Cobb pay over $…
Cursor CEO Michael Truell, who built the AI coding startup into a potential $60 billion acquisition target for Elon Musk's SpaceX, has long harbored galactic ambitions. The 25-year-old MIT graduate, k…