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What’s rarer than a unicorn? Anthropic didn’t just join the Series H club, it almost became the first $1 trillion private company ever

The $65 billion funding round was led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia, more than doubling the company’s valuation in just three months.

By Eva RoytburgMay 28, 2026

We gave our 5,000 employees a week to do nothing but learn AI. We learned the biggest blockers are human ones

By Rob GiglioMay 28, 2026

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Duke scientists create robot from your nightmares: 20 legs, eyes everywhere, no front or back

By Allen Breed, Holly Ramer and The Associated PressMay 28, 2026

American Economist Robert Solow

Employees using AI are working faster, but the economy isn’t more efficient. A look at what happened in the pre-Internet era might explain why

By Tristan BoveMay 27, 2026

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiling the company's new manned spacecraft in Hawthorne, Calif. on May 29, 2014. (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

The key disclosures missing from SpaceX’s S-1

By Allie GarfinkleMay 28, 2026

Orbital Industries cofounder and CEO Jonathan Godwin

Exclusive: Orbital Industries, startup using AI to discover exotic new materials, raises $50 million Series B funding round

By Jeremy KahnMay 28, 2026

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Law The EEOC chair knows gutting diversity reporting will blind the agency to discrimination. She’s doing it anyway.

By Jacqueline MunisMay 28, 2026

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AI Tokenmaxxing is over. That’s because it never measured what really counts to see ROI from AI

By Jeremy KahnMay 28, 2026

Federal vs. private student loans: How to choose (and why it matters)

Personal Finance Federal vs. private student loans: How to choose (and why it matters)

By Joseph HostetlerMay 28, 2026

A barista wearing a green apron stands behind the bar and pours a drink into a cup

Retail Starbucks quietly retired its AI agent just months after deployment after it miscounted coffee shop inventories and slowed down baristas

By Sasha RogelbergMay 28, 2026

A Google engineer is facing federal charges after allegedly using his employer’s confidential data to pocket $1.2 million on Polymarket

Investing A Google engineer is facing federal charges after allegedly using his employer’s confidential data to pocket $1.2 million on Polymarket

By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezMay 28, 2026

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Economy More Americans are going hungry now than during the pandemic, as people face a ‘remarkable’ rise in food insecurity, New York Fed says

By Jacqueline MunisMay 28, 2026

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Personal Finance UBS says Ron DeSantis has a problem with his plan to help 92% of homeowners save on property taxes: His own state’s data

By Nick LichtenbergMay 28, 2026

Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce

Success As AI slashes white-collar jobs, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says almost no one is being hired—except in sales

By Emma BurleighMay 28, 2026

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AI India’s AI Impact Summit closes with the New Delhi Declaration and a $200 billion boost

By Beatrice NolanFebruary 23, 2026

AI Google’s Nobel-winning AI leader sees a ‘renaissance’ ahead—after a 10- or 15-year shakeout
By Nick LichtenbergFebruary 11, 2026

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Innovation Self-driving taxis hit London, a city with such complex streets that it has a ‘Knowledge’ test that takes cabbies years to pass

By Kelvin Chan and The Associated PressFebruary 23, 2026

U.S. military airlifts small nuclear reactor for the first time, flying a minivan-sized microreactor nearly 700 miles on a C-17

Innovation U.S. military airlifts small nuclear reactor for the first time, flying a minivan-sized microreactor nearly 700 miles on a C-17

By Matthew Daly and The Associated PressFebruary 21, 2026

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AI You have 18 months to figure out your office job, $1 billion CEO says. But it’s not going away

By Nick LichtenbergFebruary 21, 2026

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Innovation The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

By Sasha RogelbergFebruary 21, 2026

Trump team livid about Dario Amodei’s principled stand to keep the Defense Department from using his AI tools for warlike purposes

AI Trump team livid about Dario Amodei’s principled stand to keep the Defense Department from using his AI tools for warlike purposes

By Catherina GioinoFebruary 21, 2026

Commentary Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided
By Matt ShumerFebruary 11, 2026

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Economy India joins U.S. ‘Pax Silica’ semiconductor alliance easing tariff and energy tensions

By Rajesh Roy and The Associated PressFebruary 20, 2026

Exclusive: Anthropic rolls out AI tool that can hunt software bugs on its own—including the most dangerous ones humans miss

AI Exclusive: Anthropic rolls out AI tool that can hunt software bugs on its own—including the most dangerous ones humans miss

By Sharon GoldmanFebruary 20, 2026

GDP growth sharply slows to 1.4%, less than half of fourth quarter expectations

Innovation GDP growth sharply slows to 1.4%, less than half of fourth quarter expectations

By Christopher Rugaber, Matt Ott and The Associated PressFebruary 20, 2026

Commentary Something big is happening in AI, but that’s the only thing Matt Shumer got right

By Neil Chilson and Kevin FrazierFebruary 20, 2026

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AI How Modi’s AI handholding moment backfired as Sam and Dario refused to play along

By Matt O'Brien and The Associated PressFebruary 20, 2026

C-Suite How Demis Hassabis is leading Google through an innovator’s dilemma—and made OpenAI declare ‘code red’
By Fortune EditorsFebruary 11, 2026

AI is running out of power. Space won’t be an escape hatch for decades

Newsletters AI is running out of power. Space won’t be an escape hatch for decades

By Sharon GoldmanFebruary 19, 2026

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Success Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reveals his formula for running the perfect meetings to weed out those ‘who pretend to have done the reading’

By Orianna Rosa RoyleFebruary 19, 2026

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Innovation Elon Musk is pushing to build data centers in space. But they won’t solve AI’s power problems anytime soon

By Sharon GoldmanFebruary 19, 2026

Elon Musk’s biggest bet hits a pothole: Tesla robotaxis are crashing four times more than human drivers

Big Tech Elon Musk’s biggest bet hits a pothole: Tesla robotaxis are crashing four times more than human drivers

By Jordyn Grzelewski and Tech BrewFebruary 18, 2026

Professor Stuart Russell pictured in 2023 during a Congressional testimony on AI oversight

AI Big Tech execs playing ‘Russian roulette’ in the AI arms race could risk human extinction, warns top researcher

By Tristan BoveFebruary 18, 2026

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AI India’s AI embarrassment when robot dog made in China put on display by local university

By Rajesh Roy and The Associated PressFebruary 18, 2026

What OpenAI’s OpenClaw hire says about the future of AI agents

AI What OpenAI’s OpenClaw hire says about the future of AI agents

By Sharon GoldmanFebruary 17, 2026

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AI Investor Dan Ives says the tech selloff that has been spooking markets is actually a ‘generational opportunity’ to get in on the action

By Tristan BoveFebruary 17, 2026

Photo: D-Wave CEO Alan Baratz at Qubits 2026, the company's annual conference.

Big Tech D-Wave CEO shrugs off short attacks with ‘revolutionary’ $550 million quantum computing acquisition

By Jim EdwardsFebruary 17, 2026

AI could spark a new age of learning, but only if governments, tech firms and educators work together

Commentary AI could spark a new age of learning, but only if governments, tech firms and educators work together

By José Manuel Barroso and Stephen HodgesFebruary 17, 2026

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Commentary AI is transforming science – more researchers need access to these powerful tools for discovery

By James Manyika and Demis HassabisFebruary 16, 2026

Rampant AI demand for memory is fueling a growing chip crisis

Big Tech Rampant AI demand for memory is fueling a growing chip crisis

By Debby Wu, Takashi Mochizuki, Yoolim Lee and BloombergFebruary 15, 2026

OpenAI hires OpenClaw AI agent developer Peter Steinberg

AI OpenAI hires OpenClaw AI agent developer Peter Steinberg

By Maria Paula Mijares Torres and BloombergFebruary 15, 2026

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AI Meet the American spies who helped mammograms save more lives

By Erik GermanFebruary 15, 2026

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Commentary Our K-12 school system is sending us a message: AI tools are for the rich kids

By Jerel EzellFebruary 14, 2026

AI OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude spark coding revolution as developers say they’ve abandoned traditional programming

By Beatrice NolanFebruary 13, 2026

SpaceX said to weigh dual-class IPO shares to empower Musk

Startups & Venture SpaceX said to weigh dual-class IPO shares to empower Musk

By Ryan Gould, Edward Ludlow and BloombergFebruary 13, 2026

Sam Altman’s fusion startup Helion Energy hits 150 million degree plasma temperature—a milestone that could bring first grid power in 2028

Energy Sam Altman’s fusion startup Helion Energy hits 150 million degree plasma temperature—a milestone that could bring first grid power in 2028

By Jordan BlumFebruary 13, 2026

Cybersecurity OpenClaw is the bad boy of AI agents. Here’s why security experts say you should beware

By Sharon GoldmanFebruary 12, 2026

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By Preston ForeMay 21, 2026

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By Dorany Pineda, Brittany Peterson and The Associated PressMay 27, 2026

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By Nick LichtenbergMay 27, 2026

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