Runway has never been shy about betting on the hard parts of generative AI. The company’s origin story—helping filmmakers and creative teams experiment with early AI tools—has always carried a particular implication: if you want to make something that feels…
A visit for a seemingly simple routine—facial waxing—can quickly turn into something more revealing. For one person, that moment became a pivot point in how they understood a long-running health concern: hirsutism, the unwanted growth of coarse hair in areas…
Osaurus is positioning itself in the middle of one of the biggest AI debates right now: how do you get the convenience of cloud intelligence without giving up control of your data, your context, and your day-to-day workflow? The company’s…
Last summer, Peter Degen’s postdoctoral supervisor walked into his office with a question that sounded, at first, like a compliment gone strange. One of their papers—published in 2017—was suddenly being cited far more than anyone expected. Citations are supposed to…
A new documentary is trying to change the tone of the artificial intelligence debate—at least in one corner of it. Rather than leaning into the familiar extremes of either utopian hype or apocalyptic fear, the film spotlights a more difficult…
Kioxia, the Toshiba spinout best known for its flash memory chips, is riding a wave of demand that has become inseparable from the modern AI build-out. In recent reporting, the company pointed to a sharp improvement in profitability as the…
McKinsey is preparing a significant change to how it pays its partners, according to a report shared internally with senior staff. The update, framed as part of a broader “post-AI” pay revamp, would reduce the share of compensation delivered as…
US technology giants are increasingly looking beyond familiar home-market funding channels as they scale up artificial intelligence spending. Alphabet, Amazon and other major firms have begun tapping foreign debt markets at a pace that market watchers describe as unusually fast—an…
Multiverse, the AI workforce training company backed by Euan Blair, has raised $70 million in what it is being described as its first major fundraising since 2022. The round also places a reported valuation of $2.1 billion on the business—an…
Anthropic has reportedly agreed to terms for a massive new funding round that would inject roughly $30 billion into the company while valuing it at about $900 billion, according to a Financial Times report. The deal is expected to be…
Australian law firms are moving from “trying AI” to “designing with AI,” and the shift is starting to show up in how leaders talk about their businesses, not just how they talk about technology. Recent reporting points to a growing…
Law firms have always been in the business of turning messy information into decisions. What’s changing now is the speed—and the ownership—of that transformation. Across major jurisdictions, legal practices are increasingly moving from “using AI” to “building AI,” creating their…