When newly public companies have been valued as richly as SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic seem likely to be, the outlook for ordinary investors has been poor.
SpaceX’s Starship rocket during a test flight in May. The company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, stands to unlock a great fortune when the company goes public.
Online queries are more likely to turn up references to the U.S. state — a problem for the republic in the Caucasus and its people. But a move to drop the name “Georgia” has lost steam.
A French multinational, Schneider Electric, decided to use artificial intelligence in manufacturing to make workers more productive, rather than to replace them. Here’s how that’s going.
Are we ready for autonomous drones to make life-and-death decisions on the battlefield? Christian Brose, the chief strategy officer of Anduril Industries, explains on “Interesting Times” that the Pentagon’s official policy leaves the door for autonomous weapons wide open.
America has fired “something like eight years’ worth of Tomahawk missile production” in Iran, Christian Brose, the chief strategy officer of Anduril Industries, says on “Interesting Times,” where he and the Opinion columnist Ross Douthat discuss the limitations of America’s arsenal of “luxury” weapons.
Anthropic raised $65 billion in new fund-raising that put its value at $900 billion, ahead of OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion, as the companies duel for A.I. dominance.
Anthropic’s updated model, Claude Opus 4.8, is particularly adept at vibecoding, or the process of artificial intelligence writing code from prompts in conversational English.
Readers discuss Senator John Cornyn’s loss to Ken Paxton in Tuesday’s Republican primary. Also: Investigating E. Jean Carroll; Mets and Knicks; religion and A.I.
The American Federation of Teachers recommended “no screens” at all for those in second grade or younger, and no A.I. chatbots for students in elementary school.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said on Wednesday that teaching and learning in the earliest grades “should be done without A.I.”
Marana, Ariz., is used to placid local politics, but the town, in a congressional swing district held by Juan Ciscomani, has been convulsed by two national issues, A.I. and immigration detention.
Pope Leo XIV’s spiritual message on artificial intelligence arrived as Silicon Valley’s A.I. enthusiasts pursue their own spirituality through technology.
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