Zach Dell’s Battery Company Is In Talks To Raise Funding At A $12 Billion Valuation

Helmed by billionaire Michael Dell’s Son, Base Power is manufacturing its own home batteries to provide back up electricity in regions where the grid fails to serve people reliably.

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Anthropic’s Soaring Valuation Puts Its Growth Story To The Test

Anthropic’s valuation surge and rapid AI coding growth fuel IPO speculation as investors assess whether the company can sustain its momentum in enterprise AI.

How Expedia Is Reinventing Travel Through AI And Agentic Design

Expedia Group CTO Ramana Thumu on AI-powered partner intelligence, agentic travel companions and building a data-first platform at global scale.

Jony Ive’s funky Ferrari
Jony Ive’s funky Ferrari

Most people will never own, drive, or even sit inside a Ferrari Luce. (If you can, or do… hit us up.) There’s still no question that Ferrari’s first electric vehicle is one of the most interesting, surprising cars of the year. With a decidedly un-Ferrari look, and lots of new technology and designs courtesy of […]

AI Tech Is Dead, Long Live The AI Culture Walmart And JPMorgan Built

BCG says 70% of AI success is people, not technology. Inside how Walmart, JPMorgan, and Qualcomm cracked Enterprise AI culture while 94% of companies still struggle.

This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots
This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots

AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch – because, despite what its website says, there’s always a catch – is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, vacuum, dust, tidy, and wash, and use that footage to train robots. Shift announced the unusual offer on social media on […]

Adobe’s conversational AI agent is a mediocre design intern
Adobe’s conversational AI agent is a mediocre design intern

AI image tools rarely make me feel like I’m part of the creative process. They are, after all, mostly designed so that people with no design experience can type in a few words and get back a usable result. So I was pleasantly surprised by Adobe’s latest take on an AI image assistant: It’s a […]

How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the AI moment

Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that warrants serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.” Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”) is a clarion call to all people to act with courage and solidarity as we enter an age already being transformed by artificial intelligence, the greatest change in…