As thousands of influencers descended on southern California earlier this month for the annual Coachella Music Festival, a very Silicon Valley program dubbed “AI Coachella” was taking shape a few hundred miles north in Palo Alto. The class, CS 153, is one of Stanford’s buzziest offerings this semester, and like the music festival, it features a star-studded lineup of celebrities—in this case, not pop artists, but Big Tech CEOs.The course is co-taught by Anjney Midha, a former Andreessen Horowitz general partner, and Michael Abbott, Apple’s former VP of engineering for cloud services. The list of guest lecturers reads like a…
Hundreds of Oregon’s endangered species will have better survival odds thanks to a new tax expected to raise millions in dedicated conservation revenue.Starting Jan. 1, a share of a state transient lodging tax is expected to generate $37 million yearly to support the state’s wildlife, including pelicans, bats, turtles, abalone…
They said it was going to be a big one, and it is. Pearl Abyss has just released a new patch for Crimson Desert, one that is not only physically big, 37 GB on Steam mainly due to new visual fidelity additions, but also big in scope, as in, the…
How do you file taxes on prediction market profits? It seems like the type of straightforward question any halfway decent bookkeeper should be able to answer. Right now, though, it’s a conundrum for tax experts across the country. “You have a vacuum of guidance,” says Patrick Camuso, an accountant who…
One of the U.S. government’s most important activities to increase domestic critical mineral production is being developed without much fanfare: gold. Since last year, the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management has steadily backed projects and sought public input on gold mining operations.President Donald Trump named gold along…
Since March, Israeli attacks on Beirut and the occupation of southern Lebanon have displaced over 1 million people. Families are sheltering with relatives, renting if they can, or sleeping in cars and out in the open, placing immense strain on already fragile infrastructure. Over 130,000 people have also crossed into…
At Nvidia’s 2026 GTC conference in San Jose, Jensen Huang did something unusual even by Silicon Valley standards. He did not just outline a roadmap. He quantified the future of artificial intelligence. He declared, “I believe that computing demand has increased by one million times in the last two years.”Huang…
This week, our hosts discuss why OpenAI and Elon Musk’s legal feud is heating up once again—and happening alongside SpaceX’s IPO filing. They also dive into how a Department of Justice lawyer misled a judge about how they’re handling voter data, and why the Artemis II’s launch captured all of…
On a Monday afternoon in March, I watched a pixel-art avatar prowl the corridors of a virtual office campus looking for a buddy. With dark brown hair and stubbled chin, the sprite was a representation of me—an AI agent instructed to converse with other people’s agents to see if we…
Governments around the world have been struggling to address the rise of industrial-scale scamming operations based in countries like Laos, Myanmar, and Cambodia that have cost victims billions of dollars over the past few years. The operations often have ties to Chinese organized crime, use forced labor to carry out…
Standing inside the HumanX conference in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, it’s hard not to feel like you’re at the center of the AI universe. Technology leaders swarm the building, and the headquarters of OpenAI and Anthropic are just down the block. But a 70-person startup headquartered 5,000 miles away in…
How do you build a $1 billion direct-to-consumer business without relying on the traditional venture capital playbook? Forbes’ Alex York sits down with Levi Conlow, co-founder and CEO of Lectric eBikes, to unpack how his company became North America’s largest e-bike brand. Despite a shrinking post-boom market, supply chain friction,…
The US Army is developing AI models trained on data from real missions, with the goal of deploying a chatbot specifically for soldiers.“We have all of these lessons learned from missions like the Ukraine-Russia War and Operation Epic Fury,” says Alex Miller, the Army’s chief technology officer, in an interview…
The company isn’t exactly breaking new ground. The idea of a chatbot standing in for a human is fairly common. As is the idea of cashing in on it. For instance, Manhattan psychologist Becky Kennedy has built a parenting advice business that features a chatbot named Gigi trained on her…
An unknown technical problem caused a number of robotaxis owned by the Chinese tech giant Baidu to freeze on Tuesday in the middle of traffic, trapping some passengers in the vehicles for more than an hour.In Wuhan, a city in central China where Baidu has deployed hundreds of its Apollo…
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