World
Hailey Bieber built a billion-dollar beauty brand: Here’s what every entrepreneur can learn from her success
Every beauty founder dreams of accomplishing what Rhode just achieved: a billion-dollar valuation, a cultural following, and a brand that seems to dominate every platform it touches. Of course,...
These Japanese trucks are slow and small. People can’t get enough of them
Diminutive and slow, with a charmingly outdated look, so-called Kei trucks are completely out of sync with the American truck and SUV market. In many states, in fact, they’re...
This small island community is combating overtourism with self-navigating cars
In the North Atlantic Ocean, halfway between Iceland and Norway, a small island community is testing an imaginative solution to overtourism: self-navigating cars. The Faroe Islands, an archipelago with...
Inside OpenAI’s empire: A conversation with Karen Hao
And the third feature is that the empires monopolize knowledge production. So, in the last 10 years, we’ve seen the AI industry monopolize more and more of the AI...
Why the AI moratorium’s defeat may signal a new political era
Granted, there’s an argument to be made that the moratorium’s defeat was highly contingent. Blackburn appears to have been motivated almost entirely by concerns about children’s online safety and...
Why the new rulings on AI copyright might actually be good news for publishers
The AI copyright courtroom is heating up. In back-to-back rulings last week, the ongoing legal war between AI companies and content creators has significantly shifted, ostensibly favoring the former....
Funding focus: Biotech dominates Netherlands’ top 10 rounds in H1 2025
Funding focus is a new series analysing cash flow into the European tech ecosystem. After debuting with a look at the biggest rounds so far this year, we now...
One of your most valuable assets is the leaders you create
I work in the data center industry, where we’re known for our digital-ready, adaptive infrastructure. Yet one of our most valuable products is actually the leaders we create. Developing...
Open, transparent AI models will create more innovation and trust
Today, most AI is being built on blind faith inside of black boxes. It requires users to have on unquestioning belief in something neither transparent nor understandable. The industry is...
Online interactions are become less genuine
In a prescient tweet, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman noted that AI will become persuasive long before it becomes intelligent. A scintillating study conducted by researchers at the University of...
