AI is becoming a financial engineering business
What happens when large language models become commodities? Competitive advantage moves from the model itself to the balance sheet behind...
Current price of oil as of August 20, 2026
By 6:15 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil had reached $95.40 per barrel, measured using the Brent benchmark. That’s $1.80 more...
Zynga founder Mark Pincus: AI can get you to a B-plus, but it won’t get you to an A
In today’s CEO Daily: The executive behind FarmVille shares lessons on creating and popularizing products in the AI era The...
AI won’t fix a broken company. Rewiring it will
Every CEO wants to talk about AI’s magic. Almost none want to talk about the boring problems standing in the...
Amazon can’t quit Bezos’ drone dream
Good morning. Earlier this week, we told you about Google’s $10 million purchase of Spirit Airlines’ data in a bankruptcy...
‘Buyers aren’t yet opening their wallets’: AI-generated assets are flooding marketplaces, but consumers are snubbing them for human-made products
Consumers are getting fed up with AI slop found on online marketplaces, and companies are beginning to take note. About...
In this economy, millennials and Gen Z would rather break up than date someone in debt: ‘There’s a pretty big divide’
Checking a partner’s credit score used to be something people joked about before a third date. Now it’s closer to...
Companies are spending trillions on AI. The C-suite doesn’t know who is in charge of it
Everyone agrees that someone is calling the shots on a corporate AI strategy. It’s just that a lot of executives...
Teachers in one of San Francisco’s richest suburbs are so underpaid that a philanthropist just gave each of them $9,161
It’s no secret teachers in the U.S. are widely underpaid. Despite putting infar more work hours than other adults each...
Meta faces a $1.4 trillion threat that could mean ‘turning in the keys and walking away’—but the stakes of the case reach across tech
It’s no secret Meta is one of the wealthiest companies in the world. Last year, it brought in nearly $201...
Venezuela oil minister to U.S. companies: ‘It’s an entire world waiting to be discovered’
Venezuela’s new petroleum minister sees her South American home not as a dilapidated former oil giant, but as an emerging...
Bitcoin posts surprise rally as currency nears $70,000 for the first time since June
Bitcoin has found some relief after months of selling pressure. On Wednesday, the cryptocurrency jumped nearly 6% to over $69,000,...
Google and the UK think changing flights paths could cut down on climate change
Hundreds of commercial flights will be told to change their paths over the northeastern Atlantic Ocean during the next two...
Amazon isn’t giving up on Jeff Bezos’ drone deliveries dream—and after 13 years of turbulence, the momentum is finally shifting
Thirteen years ago, Jeff Bezos strode into a room on the set of CBS’ 60 Minutes and revealed Amazon’s first...
Pentagon pushes ‘zero tolerance’ audit on foreign university partnerships that ‘compromise our national security’
The Department of Defense has ordered 30 U.S. universities to audit their partnerships with mostly Chinese universities and military training...
