Thursday, May 15, 2025

AI in Business

Trae Stephens Built an AI Weapon and Worked for Donald Trump, and He Says Jesus Would Approve of It

When I wrote about Anduril in 2018, the company explicitly said it would not build lethal weapons. Now you build fighter jets, underwater drones,...

Caroline Ellison, FTX whistleblower, sentenced to two years in prison

The strength of Ellison's testimony against Bankman-Fried went a long way toward persuading the judge to show leniency, according to Paul Tuchmann, a former...

Microsoft’s Three Mile Island Deal Signals Broader Return to Nuclear Power

For five years, Reactor One at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear power plant has been dormant. Now, thanks to a deal with Microsoft, the...

Nike’s Next CEO Faces One Hell of a Challenge

It all started when Donahoe took over as CEO and made the controversial decision to restructure Nike’s product and marketing divisions, eliminating long-standing categories...

Proposed ban would be ‘death sentence’ for Chinese electric vehicles in the US

After officially raising tariffs on Chinese imports of electric vehicles earlier this month, the U.S. government is taking a more sedate approach to keeping...

The Network State Mystery School for the Crowd is Now in Session

Last month, venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan announced Network School, a three-month educational retreat aimed at those interested in “network nations,” a kind of utopia...

Cloudflare’s up-to-date tools let sites detect and block AI bots for free

According to Shadowy Visitors founder Gavin King, most major AI agents still adhere to the robots.txt file. “It’s pretty consistent,” he says. But not...

Attention, Spoiled Software Engineers: Take a Lesson in Google’s Programming Language

Many of today's programmers - sorry, software engineers—think of themselves as “creatives.” Artists, of sorts. They’re devoted to ostentatious personal websites with cleverly hidden...