Ashlee Vance

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  • The Anduril Industries headquarters in Costa Mesa, California, US, on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. Anduril recently beat several legacy defense players in a contest for a major contract to develop an unmanned fighter jet for the US Air Force and is now valued at $8.5 billion. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Anduril’s chair consulted with Trump on revamping US military

    By Tom Giles, Ashlee Vance, and others
  • SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 16: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on during the APEC CEO Summit at Moscone West on November 16, 2023 in San Francisco, California. The APEC summit is being held in San Francisco and runs through November 17. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Tech

    Sam Altman was fundraising in the Middle East for a new chip venture to rival Nvidia before OpenAI’s board ousted him

    By Edward Ludlow, Ashlee Vance, and others
  • Neuralink logo displayed on a phone screen, a silhouette of a paper in shape of a human face and a binary code displayed on a screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on December 10, 2021. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Tech

    Musk’s Neuralink plans to embed coin-sized computer brain implants into human patients in 6 months

    By Ashlee Vance and Bloomberg