Google’s Cloud AI lead on the three frontiers of model capability
AI models are pushing against three frontiers at once: raw intelligence, response time, and a third quality you might call “extensibility.”
Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next. Join senior AI reporter…
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6 Unspoken Leadership Rules That Protect Your Top Performers and Grow Your Business
Most people think hard work guarantees career success — but the truth about what really drives advancement is rarely taught.
Small Businesses Are Racing to Add 401(k) Retirement Plans — Here’s What’s Behind the Surge
Millions of small business workers have gained access to retirement plans over the past seven years.
Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras
While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own hands.
Why Your Best Angel Investors Are Founders Who Just Raised Their Series C
Your most valuable angel investors aren’t ‘angels’ at all — they’re operators a few stages ahead of you.
OpenAI calls in the consultants for its enterprise push
OpenAI is partnering with four consulting giants in an effort to see more adoption of its OpenAI Frontier AI agent platform.
It’s Not the Best Who Wins — It’s the Best Known. 5 Steps to Make Sure You’re Seen.
So how do you move from being the best-kept secret to the best-known name in your industry? Here are five steps to help you do exactly that.
The Strategy Behind Thought Leadership Content That Gets Seen, Shared and Cited
Your thought leadership strategy is built for a world that no longer exists. Here’s the new standard.
Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM
The company open-sourced an 8 billion parameter LLM, Steerling-8B, trained with a new architecture designed to make its actions easily interpretable.