Sam Altman says we need another Renaissance. But we really need another Industrial Revolution
Sam Altman doesn’t understand history. His mistake is going to punish the world. That’s the depressing takeaway from the OpenAI’s...
AI might ‘kill us all.’ That’s still a savvy sales pitch
At the time, artificial intelligence anxieties were running high. The latest frontier model, with apparent human-level faculties, had gone rogue...
CLEAR founder: fast AI can be safe AI when we fix the identity layer
Somewhere today, someone will call a corporate help desk and say they are locked out. The voice will sound right....
I served as the White House’s top biosecurity official. Here’s what I’m watching for with AI
In the White House Situation Room, the hardest calls were never the obvious emergencies. What kept me up were the...
Current price of oil as of October 9, 2026
At 6:45 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil was priced at $105.72 per barrel with Brent serving as the benchmark (we’ll...
Ultra raises $62 million for fast-growing ‘robots as a service’ business, announces tie-up with AI research firm Physical Intelligence
Finance editor Jeff John Roberts here. The explosive growth of the robotics industry in recent years is reflected in new...
Is AI the new China Shock?
When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, that one move set off the largest capital spending boom the...
The AI race may be decided by financing—not just better chips
In today’s CEO Daily: CEOs should ask who’s on the hook in AI financing deals. The big leadership story: Anthropic...
Gwynne Shotwell’s $300 million SpaceX pledge to Trump Accounts shows billionaires a tax-smart way to give away their own company’s stock
In a new type of philanthropy, billionaire SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell has pledged to give more than 2 million American...
‘You decided to evade them’: Former HSBC banker ‘clearly in a financial position to pay’ banned from finance for dodging $7,800 in fares
Britain’s financial regulator has banned a former HSBC banker from the industry over a train-fare fraud that cost a railway...
Sweden’s startups will raise $5 billion in 2026. Our secret sauce is 150 years old
How long can a country punch above its weight before someone needs to check the scales? For decades I’ve heard...
Disney offered a 13-year-old $2 million to sing in The Lion King—his mom took $100k plus royalties instead. He’s still getting paid 32 years later
Becoming an overnight millionaire is every teenager’s dream. But when Disney offered 13-year-old Jason Weaver $2 million to sing as...
‘The gap was not the awareness’: The company phishing trainings you loathe aren’t enough when nearly 1 in 4 security pros say their MFA is optional
Your first few weeks at work probably look something like this: figuring out who’s who on Slack, which floor has...
Anthropic is launching a ‘presidential engagement’ effort to advise candidates on AI policy ahead of the 2028 election
Anthropic is setting up a “presidential engagement” program ahead of the 2028 elections, building an in-house team that will work...
A FEMA administrator created the Waffle House Index after looking for a place to eat during hurricane clean up and only Waffle House was open
Golden hash browns, gravy-smothered biscuits and crispy waffles with a hearty helping of syrup are among the classic Southern comfort...
