For open-source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing
AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier but maintaining them is just as hard.
I Quit My High-Powered Banking Job to Chase a Different Version of the American Dream — Now I’ve Helped 80,000+ Do the Same
I walked away from my career at Goldman Sachs to find fulfillment. I found my calling helping others build their dreams.
Altman and Amodei share a moment of awkwardness at India’s big AI summit
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi prompted speakers at the event to join hands and raise them in a show of unity, all executives on stage obliged, except OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, who held their hands conspicuously apart.
The Download: autonomous narco submarines, and virtue signaling chatbots
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Colombian drug trade For decades, handmade narco subs have been some of the cocaine trade’s most elusive and productive workhorses, ferrying multi-ton loads of illicit drugs…
Rising Costs Are the No. 1 Stressor For Small Businesses — Here’s the Surprising Solution You Can Use to Fight Back
Despite economic headwinds, small businesses are pivoting from survival to strategic growth by investing in modernized marketing and proactive technologies like agentic AI.
Freeform raises $67M Series B to scale up laser AI manufacturing
“I think we’re the only quote-unquote manufacturing company out there that has H200 clusters in a data center on site.”
This VC’s best advice for building a founding team
One of the most consequential decisions early-stage founders have to make is who they will bring on as their founding team. The first five to 10 employees will have a massive impact on the company culture, and the precedents set with them are difficult to change down the road. That’s why this season on Build […]
Reliance unveils $110B AI investment plan as India ramps up tech ambitions
Reliance has begun building multi-gigawatt AI data centers in Jamnagar, with more than 120 MW of capacity expected to come online in 2026.
How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Colombian drug trade
On a bright morning last April, a surveillance plane operated by the Colombian military spotted a 40-foot-long shark-like silhouette idling in the ocean just off Tayrona National Park. It was, unmistakably, a “narco sub,” a stealthy fiberglass vessel that sails with its hull almost entirely underwater, used by drug cartels to move cocaine north. The…
The building legal case for global climate justice
The United States and the European Union grew into economic superpowers by committing climate atrocities. They have burned a wildly disproportionate share of the world’s oil and gas, planting carbon time bombs that will detonate first in the poorest, hottest parts of the globe. Meanwhile, places like the Solomon Islands and Chad—low-lying or just plain…
What It Takes to Make Agentic AI Work in Retail
Thank you for joining us on the “Enterprise AI hub.” In this episode of the Infosys Knowledge Institute Podcast, Dylan Cosper speaks with Prasad Banala, Director of Software Engineering at a large US-based retail organization, about operationalizing agentic AI across the software development lifecycle. Prasad explains how his team applies AI to validate requirements, generate…