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Mark Cuban said CEOs of large public companies face a tough dilemma with AI, and it’s looking like a lose-lose situation for them. Loading audio narration… The former “Shark Tank” billionaire investor said in a Sunday X post that entrepreneurs are building AI-native companies that displace incumbents. On the other hand, incumbents face what he called the “Innovator’s AI Dilemma”: either tear down their companies and reinvent them as native AI, or do nothing.In either case, Cuban said investors won’t be happy. He said we’ll know when AI is affecting public companies from two kinds of shareholder lawsuits: one against…
Inside one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies, employees can openly challenge the CEO — even on Slack. Loading audio narration… On an episode of “Lenny’s” podcast released on Sunday, Anthropic’s head of growth, Amol Avasare, said employees all have a personal Slack “notebook” that is open to others. Staff, including CEO Dario Amodei, use it like a “Twitter feed” to discuss their thoughts and what they are working on.”You can go and join the Slack channel, the notebook channels of people on research, and all these other areas, and you can learn whatever you want,” Avasare said.He added that…
NEW YORK (AP) — Hunched over a sewing machine, Kil Bae is hemming a dress inside his Manhattan tailor shop when a new customer stops by with a vintage Tommy Hilfiger jacket he wants taken in.The modeling agent paid $20 at a thrift store for his reversible bomber style that’s plaid on one side and red on the other. He’s willing to spend $280 to have it slimmed down. Alteration requests with such a price disparity would have seemed odd a few years ago, the tailor says, but are helping to keep the bobbins bobbing at his one-man shop, 85…
AI skeptics aren’t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models’ outputs — that’s what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service. Take Microsoft, which is currently focused on getting corporate customers to pay for Copilot. But it’s also been getting dinged on social media over Copilot’s terms of use, which appear to have been last updated on October 24, 2025. “Copilot is for entertainment purposes only,” the company warned. “It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk.” A…
SpaceX has reportedly filed confidential paperwork for an initial public offering in which the company would raise $75 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation. And according to CEO Elon Musk, orbital data centers will be a big part of SpaceX’s future. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed Musk’s vision, as well as other companies that are pursuing similar goals. It will take significant tech development and massive capital spending to make orbital data centers a reality, but as Sean noted, with “opposition happening around the country to data centers in general,”…
Physical AI is emerging as one of the next major industrial battlegrounds, with Japan’s push driven more by necessity than anything else. With workforces shrinking and pressure mounting to sustain productivity, companies are increasingly deploying AI-powered robots across factories, warehouses, and critical infrastructure. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in March 2026 that it aims to build a domestic physical AI sector and capture a 30% share of the global market by 2040. The country already holds a strong position in industrial robotics, with Japanese manufacturers accounting for about 70% of the global market in 2022, according to…
They’re the biggest beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence race you’ve never heard of. Loading audio narration… While the largest tech firms have unveiled unprecedented spending for AI infrastructure, and leading language developers Anthropic and OpenAI close in on blockbuster IPOs, a group of former crypto-mining companies have quietly become power players amid the soaring demand for data centers.With names like TeraWulf, Applied Digital, Iren, Core Scientific, and Cipher Digital, the companies make up for their short track records with access to an even more essential ingredient for success: utility power contracts that allow them to quickly energize electricity-hungry AI computing…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ryan Courtnage, the 51-year-old cofounder of the donation-management platform Benevity, who lives in Creston, British Columbia. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… When I exited my last endeavor in 2020, I purchased a large piece of land out in the mountains. It’s 22 acres.My cofounders and I built something from scratch that continues to make a positive change in the world. I wouldn’t trade that experience for anything. Still, I didn’t feel like I was building anymore. Eventually, being a founder gets to a point where all…
When Patricia Tani moved to San Francisco last year, she kept hearing a koan about the city’s dating scene: “The odds are good, but the goods are odd.””There’s all this talk online about how dating is cooked in SF, but I never really believed that, because there’s way more guys than women,” she tells me. “Shouldn’t it be easy to find a boyfriend?”The answer was no. Tani, who is 21, tried Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge to no avail. San Franciscans were too locked in building the future to build futures with romantic partners; it was a city of situationships. Tani…
AI can already write most of Simon Willison’s code. The bigger question, he says, is what happens when it no longer needs him at all. Loading audio narration… Willison, the co-creator of the Django web framework, which thousands of sites, including Instagram, have used to get started, said professionals who use AI tools typically follow a specific sequence: They tell the AI what they want, monitor its progress, and then review the finished code to ensure it’s correct.However, what if humans trusted AI to oversee the entire process? That, he said, is called the “dark factory.””There’s this idea in factory…