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NATO’s plan for a battlefield swarming with drones: Let AI fly, but keep lethal decisions human
NATO plans to fortify its eastern edge using drones, sensors, and artificial intelligence in a massive network designed to spot and help repel a potential Russian attack. As part of that plan, some systems may increasingly operate autonomously; however, humans will still decide what targets they…
Patrón thinks its biggest selling point is what’s not in its tequila
Patrón is betting that what’s missing from its bottles can set it apart, as US spirits sales fall and the premium tequila category becomes increasingly crowded. Patrón is rolling out the latest iteration of a provocative campaign that plays on the words it’s not allowed to use in its marketing, the…
Everybody Got The SpaceX Lockup Expiration Wrong, And I’m Not Selling
On August 6, the first tranche of locked-up SpaceX shares was released. Roughly 911.5 million shares became eligible to trade in a single session. SPCX went up 6%. Then it went up again the next day, closing out a two-day gain of about 11% on the exact event everybody had circled on their calendar…
I built my mom a $110,000 house in my yard. It’s helping us avoid a nursing home.
This interview is based on a conversation with James Richard Cornell, 63, who has been caring for his 87-year-old mom with dementia for over a decade. Cornell built a house on his property for his mom, which has helped them avoid nursing home costs. This interview has been edited for length and…
Lovable doubles its valuation to $13.3 billion as investors place another big bet on AI coding
AI software-building startup Lovable has raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, more than double the $6.6 billion valuation it received in its December funding round. Menlo Ventures led the Series C alongside EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund in the latest sign of investor appetite for…
I was a consultant at BCG who struggled to land a project. Here’s how I turned it around.
This is an interview with Jonathan Chan, the cofounder and chief product and technology officer of Pear, an AI platform that’s helping to reinvent consulting. Prior to that, he spent five years as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. I started my career as a tech developer, then did my MBA and…
Booking’s CEO says AI will have a ‘human cost’ — and he wants every employee to be ‘AI literate’ in case their job goes away
AI could make building your vacation itinerary easier — Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel says it could also make some careers harder. Fogel, the chief executive of the company behind booking.com, discussed AI’s potential impact on workers in an episode of the “Grit” podcast released Monday…
I run the iconic Big Sur restaurant Nepenthe. The Timber Fire is costing us up to $70,000 a day in sales.
This is an as-told-essay based on a conversation with Kirk Gafill, an owner and general manager of Nepenthe, a restaurant on California’s Big Sur coast that is under an evacuation order due to the Timber Fire. Gafill is also the president of the Big Sur Chamber of Commerce. This story has been…
The secret superyacht sales network
Tomek Wrzesinski has spent more than 20 years selling supersized boats to the uberwealthy, and he’s found one nearly foolproof way to get a client to bite. It starts with sending a cryptic weekend text message: “Maybe I have something for you. I just need to check if it’s still available. It’s an…
Reed Jobs says Silicon Valley’s ‘energy’ has moved to San Francisco thanks to post-pandemic office prices
Steve Jobs’ son thinks San Francisco’s pandemic-era real estate slump helped shift Silicon Valley’s center of gravity up north. Reed Jobs said on the Sabrina Halper Show that Palo Alto and the South Bay were “where all the juice was” during his father’s career, when companies including Apple…