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Satya Nadella believes Microsoft needs to completely rethink its business model for the AI era, and he’s turning to an executive who influenced the company’s cloud reboot 15 years ago.Nadella tapped Rolf Harms as an advisor on AI economics to help with the ambitious plan, according to a memo the…
Databricks CEO says we already have artificial general intelligence. Silicon Valley just refuses to admit it.Ali Ghodsi said at Goldman Sachs’ Communicopia + Technology Conference in September that AI chatbots already meet the definition of AGI — AI that can reason like a human — that researchers used a decade…
Real estate’s biggest turf war is playing out this week in a Manhattan courtroom, where a federal judge must decide if the so-called “Zillow ban” is fair.Compass, the nation’s largest real estate brokerage by sales volume, is fighting the ban, under which Zillow excludes home listings from its site and…
Drones — and ways to defeat them — are evolving far too quickly for traditional weapons development cycles, a company making counter-drone systems said.Matt McCrann, CEO of DroneShield’s US arm, told Business Insider that “there’s very much a counter-counter fight going on,” and “things are definitely moving quicker.”Development cycles are…
Tim Cook has been running Apple for more than 14 years, but he won’t be CEO forever.With leadership transitions this year, including Cook’s longtime number two, Jeff Williams, announcing his retirement before 2026, John Ternus has emerged as a likely frontrunner for the top job, according to reports in the…
This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Jake Bullock, the cofounder and CEO of Cann, a THC-infused beverage company. As part of the funding bill to reopen the government, Congress passed restrictions on hemp, set to take effect in November 2026, that would effectively ban many hemp-derived…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he’s uneasy about how much power a handful of tech leaders — including himself — have over the future of artificial intelligence.”I think I’m deeply uncomfortable with these decisions being made by a few companies, by a few people,” Amodei told Anderson Cooper in a…
When Jeff Bezos’ father quietly hired a chief executive to manage his fortune in September, the move made headlines.Mike Bezos tapped Valeria Alberola — a former executive for Walmart heir Ben Walton — to lead his Miami-based family office, Aurora Borealis Nezos.The hire is part of a major expansion to…
Warren Buffett published his final letter to shareholders as Berkshire Hathaway CEO on Monday, as he prepares to step down before the new year. His followers reacted with a mixture of sadness, gratitude, and admiration.The legendary business leader and investor, 95, has transformed Berkshire from a failing textile mill into…
When CEO Doug McMillon and other Walmart execs visit stores, they’ll collect stray shopping carts from the parking lot or pick up trash.The idea is to model servant leadership and being “willing to do what we want anybody else to do,” McMillon told a business school audience at Stanford in…
