Alexandr Wang co-founded Scale AI in 2016. Drew Angerer/Getty Images As we enter the age of agentic A.I., Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang claims people won’t be out of work but instead responsible for overseeing their own groups of A.I. employees. “It’ll almost be like everybody gets promoted to being a manager,” the 28-year-old billionaire said … Read more
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images On Feb. 18, Elon Musk’s xAI unveiled Grok 3, marking the startup’s foray into the advanced A.I. reasoning race dominated by players like Google (GOOGL), OpenAI, and China’s DeepSeek. In a live stream on X, Musk described Grok 3 as a “maximally truth-seeking A.I.” that prioritizes … Read more
Billionaire Steve Cohen is also the owner of the New York Mets. Rich Storry/Getty Images Is A.I. any match for the law? Steve Cohen, the billionaire hedge fund investor behind Point72 Asset Management, certainly seems to think so. Point72 Private Investments, an arm under Cohen’s New York-based hedge fund, is the lead investor in a … Read more
Eric Schmidt previously headed Google for a decade. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for TIME Investing in the future of A.I. is nothing new for Eric Schmidt, who has spent the past few years backing dozens of startups like Stability AI, Inflection AI and Mistral AI. But through a new $10 million venture aiming to bolster research … Read more
Brian Chesky wants Airbnb to become the “Amazon” of travel. Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for WIRED Despite Silicon Valley’s certified A.I. craze, AirBnb (ABNB) isn’t so eager to embrace the new technology just yet—at least, not across the company’s core business of travel planning. “I don’t think it’s quite ready for prime time,” Brian … Read more
France’s President Emmanuel Macron at the AI Action Summit on Feb. 10, 2025. Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images This week at the global A.I. summit in Paris, the third iteration of its kind, something noticeably shifted from its previous-year editions (held in Korea last year and the U.K. in 2023). The name, for one. While … Read more
A new survey correlated higher confidence in A.I. tools to less critical thinking. Photo by Milad Fakurian on Unsplash Humans have always been wary of how technological advances could deteriorate our thinking skills. The printing press, for example, led some to worry that scribes would become lazy; calculators spooked math teachers; and the internet spawned … Read more
Sundar Pichai delivers a speech during the AI Action Summit in Paris, on Feb. 10, 2025. Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images The rise of A.I. brings existential challenges, from job losses to misinformation and misuse. But for Google (GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai, the greatest risk is letting fear block its potential. “The biggest risk could … Read more
Harold Cohen (1928-2016), Untitled (i23-03758); Estimate: $10,000-15,000. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD 2025 I felt a vague sense of disquietude when I received word from Christie’s that it would be hosting the first-ever artificial intelligence-dedicated sale at a major house. Just a little moment of unease. Frankly, it’s hard to shush those quiet biases that make a … Read more