When AI researcher Sebastian Raschka got married in November 2023, he and his now-wife, Liza, went nontraditional. They wedded in Las Vegas at an Elvis-themed chapel, then celebrated by attending a U2 concert at the Sphere, the futuristic orb-shaped theater on the Strip. The Raschkas also bucked ...

Here’s a cold dose of reality: This year’s ski season in the American West has been pretty bleak. Many of the reliable powder stashes of Utah, Colorado and California have struggled with record-low snowfalls, and the limited amount of terrain resorts have managed to keep open is covered in ...

If there are growing worries about the scale of money pouring into AI, word of that hasn’t reached Marc Lipschultz. He is co-CEO of Blue Owl Capital, a publicly traded investment firm that has struck a series of huge AI data center deals. And he’s gearing up for far more of them. Right now, he ...

The crypto industry is facing twin crises—in the markets and in Washington—that are threatening to derail its dream of mainstream acceptance. With the worst crypto sell-off since the collapse of FTX in the background, the industry has run into strong opposition to a wide-ranging bill it is ...

Until recently, agentic AI, where AIs can take virtual actions and control computers, seemed like an esoteric technology that wasn’t close to going mainstream—at least for use at home on tasks like checking into flights, responding to emails and controlling smart devices. Then OpenClaw, an ...

January 30 was an eventful day for Masha Bucher. That evening she held a blowout 8th birthday party for her venture capital firm, Day One Ventures, at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. The dress code: elegant. On the invites, Bucher promised the festivities would include a new performance ...

Around the time he filed thebillionaire tax proposalthat has shaken up the tech world and ignited a debate about wealth taxes nationwide, Dave Regan, president of the California-based union behind the effort, convened a group of fellow labor leaders to solicit their thoughts. In a ...

There are plenty of tech luminaries whose correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein has turned up in the files of the disgraced financier. But few of those exchanges are quite like those that Epstein had with Masha Bucher, who is now a well-known venture capitalist. On June 25, 2019, 11 days before ...

Reaching for a metaphor to describe AI and today’s moment of technological upheaval, the Rev. Brendan McGuire picked out a whopper. “When fire was first discovered, it changed humanity: We learned how to reward ourselves,” hunting and then cooking over the flames, said McGuire, pastor of St. ...

In the last several weeks, Anthropic’s Cowork has captured considerable attention. And no wonder—Cowork has an alluring promise: that it can apply all the power of Anthropic’s coding agent, Claude Code, to nonprogramming tasks in a simple tool. The reality is, like many freshly hired human ...

Another boom time has come to Silicon Valley, pouring an unprecedented amount of capital into AI—and making the industry’s moguls richer. How are they spending that money today, and what will interest them in the future—especially with mega-IPOs for OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX on the horizon? ...

Last fall, a plane took off from Ottawa, Ontario, with some unusual cargo: a collection of nonviable human embryos and eggs. Once the aircraft reached a high altitude, the pilot made arcs in the air, creating short intervals of weightlessness that gave researchers on board a chance to study the ...

Tackling global dilemmas is what the World Economic Forum does best, and keen observers of the happenings at Davos, Switzerland, can definitely glean a sense of where the world might be heading. It’s also not a bad place to pick up a sense of mogul-appropriate winter wear. “Dressing for Davos ...

Earlier this week, I found myself with time to kill in an airport lounge ahead of my flight back to San Francisco from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. So I did what any bleary-eyed tech editor who felt totally wiped out from dozens of interviews and events would do: I parked ...

In November, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, and his wife, Anna, enjoyed a glitzy night out in Washington: a White House state dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The Brockmans were among a broad contingent of tech elite in attendance at the fete, hosted by ...

Today’s Silicon Valley elite have no shortage of ways to command attention. They might author a Substack, launch a podcast—or station themselves directly within the mecca of business think-fluencing: LinkedIn. As LinkedIn has evolved from its origin as a humble repository of digital résumés, ...

In November, a young robotics startup called Gradient began interviewing applicants for an engineering internship at the Palo Alto, Calif.–based company. But after talking to a half-dozen of them, the startup decided to ditch its plan to add interns. Why exactly? “Not worth our time,” said J.X. ...

Venture capitalist Meltem Demirors isn’t above the occasional splurge on bags, jewelry and other material things. But she much prefers to use her disposable income for an expanding array of exotic wellness experiments, including injecting peptides and hiring a personal longevity coach. “The only ...

For Christmas this holiday season, I bought my mom a navy blue 1980 Lake Placid Olympics sweater. It has special significance for her because, as a college student in upstate New York at the time, she got to attend the famous “Miracle on Ice” hockey game between the U.S. and Soviet Union in ...

No one in Silicon Valley gets wealthy or powerful by dwelling on the past. Rather, the brightest minds within tech often outshine the competition by obsessing about the future. We like to get in on the game too. In keeping with annual tradition, we’re publishing below our best educated guesses ...