Just checkin in about the fate of CapCut and a bunch of other apps that millions of Americans use www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

NEW: Trump's $100,000 H1-B fee is a "blessing in disguise" for European AI startups that need more senior level talent, founders say. The "human tariff" will likely impact early stage US startups that use equity for compensation. With @richardnieva.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

We chatted with European startup founders who think Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee could be a boon for the region: “We almost say thank you to Trump, in a way. He’s really helping us keep our talent.” With @rashis.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

The “dirty secret” in the field of AI is that it's humans that are making choices about what data AI models ingest to answer questions, not machines, Manifest AI cofounders said. The research lab claims its new model architecture can help fix that. www.forbes.com/sites/the-pr...

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang just bet $500 million that a tiny data center startup can become a British rival to Coreweave. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

2/ A closer look at financials here: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

3/ The core of what's at risk here, and how CoreWeave's cofounders are thinking about it: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

New @forbes.com magazine cover story—from @rashis.bsky.social and me—is our take on #CoreWeave, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the #AI boom. It's a fascinating firm built on bold bets, complex risk & no shortage of luck. Would love to hear what you think: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

A series of bold bets and calculated risks helped Michael Intrator turn @CoreWeave from a no-name crypto miner into a $50 billion company, serving compute to the likes of OpenAI and Microsoft. Elated to share my latest @forbes.com cover story with @pheebini.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Friends, let me introduce you to a new, truly wild genre of YouTube vids www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

NEW: Accordance, which is building an AI tool for accountants and tax professionals, has raised $13 million in funding from top VCs like Khosla Ventures. The industry is facing a massive shortage and CEO David Yue is betting that AI can fill the gaps. www.forbes.com/sites/the-pr...

The listing comes as #OpenAI gears up for an astronomical employee share sale that could make many in OpenAI’s ranks rich enough to afford the mansion. Scoop for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

Intel has been touting partnerships with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms as Trump announces that the USG is taking a stake in the company: www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

Meta has seen a significant brain drain among its AI talent in recent years, largely due to a chaotic culture and lack of vision, ex Meta AI employees told Forbes. Even amid a hiring spree, Meta continues to lose AI researchers. With @richardnieva.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

AGI might come soon. I talked to students who have dropped out of college now because of it: www.forbes.com/sites/victor...

SCOOP: AI coding startup Cognition, which recently acquired Windsurf, is in talks to raise north of $300 million at a $10 billion valuation, according to sources familiar. Founders Fund and KV are involved. With @richardnieva.bsky.social and @iainmartin.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

VCs aren’t happy about AI founders jumping ship for big tech, leaving behind "carcasses" of companies. Some say it could impact the value of equity as a part of pay packages at startups. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

AI search tool OpenEvidence is already used by 40% of doctors in the U.S. Now it's raised $210 million from GV and Kleiner Perkins at a $3.5 billion. That investment makes CEO Daniel Nadler a billionaire by Forbes estimates. With @amyfeldman7.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Scoop: AI startup LangChain, which helps developers build apps using the latest AI models, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1.1 billion valuation, according to sources familiar with the deal. IVP is leading the deal, sources said. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

NEW: Elon Musk pitches Tesla robotaxis as a huge revenue opportunity for the company. It also brings new liability risks—including for Tesla owners who Airbnb their cars on a company-operated network #Tesla www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

New from me! An investigation into the "1.5bn+ company" known as The Agora, which sells misleading health and investing advice to seniors, and which was one of Meta's largest political advertisers this year (until many of their pages went down after this story). www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

Inside the latest Prompt: Former Meta AI staffers tell me they don't think multi-million dollar pay packages are enough to build a superstar AI team. Plus, people are using AI tools as "trip sitters" while consuming psychedelics. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

MORE huge AI copyright news: A big decision in Kadrey v. Meta, one of the most closely-watched legal battles. The judge sided with Meta, but *very* begrudgingly. www.wired.com/story/meta-s...

Latest in The Prompt: Anthropic gets a major legal win. Plus, Mark Zuckerberg is on a hiring spree for his new AI lab, and a new cohort of startups are trying to solve SEO in the age of AI. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

BREAKING: Elon Musk fired one of his top lieutenants. Omead Afshar was tasked with improving the electric vehicle company’s business in North America and Europe late last year, but sales continue to drop in both #Tesla www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

Per the analytics platform, Zelf, two of the top 15 TikToks about Iran this past week were AI-generated propaganda. They reached tens of millions. So I reverse image searched them. I found they'd been posted more than 100x each across YouTube and Instagram, too. www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

In a world where AI search engines are driving away traffic from websites, traditional SEO is no longer going to cut it. A new crop of startups have emerged that aim to help businesses get cited in answers generated by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

In the Prompt: Some of the most prominent thought leaders in AI have said the technology could lead to "white collar bloodbaths," Hollywood heavyweights Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney and Elon Musk's xAI is in legal trouble. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Over the past 48 hours, TikTokers — and BlueSkiers, Threaders, and even Twitterers —  took a cue from 2020 K-Pop stans and reserved tickets to a trump rally they weren't gonna use. www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

Amazing scoop by @davidjeans.bsky.social : Meta could spend majority of its AI budget on scale as part of $14 billion deal. www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...

Scoop: For months OpenAI has been winding down its work with data labelling giant Scale and vetting new partners, sources told Forbes. Scale's $15 billion deal to sell a 49% stake to Meta has raised questions about its future. With @richardnieva.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

Elon Musk probably doesn't have much to fear from President Trump's threat to cancel SpaceX contracts. The company has made itself indispensable to the government. But there are still ways the administration could hurt it. www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...

NEW: Tesla’s Newest Nightmare Is Donald Trump On top of tariffs and the likely loss of electric vehicle tax credits, Musk’s war with the once-friendly Trump Administration could create big new problems for Tesla #musk #trump www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

NEW: Elon Musk’s DOGE role and inflammatory public behavior have done significant damage to the Tesla brand, a new pill finds. Pension fund investors are fed up with the Tesla board’s failure to reign in the billionaire CEO #Tesla www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

AI slop bible stories are all over YouTube, being generated by a company called Pray dot com and people are extremely into them: www.404media.co/why-do-chris...

Inside the latest Prompt: the FDA plans to use AI to ramp up reviews and find investigation targets, Meta aims to fully automate ad creation and AI models are becoming too agreeable. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

NEW - The US AI Safety Institute is no more, according to the Commerce Department. It's been "reformed" into the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, which... appears will do many of the same things as the Institute? www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

New York friends! I’ll be in Greenwich Village next Tuesday evening for this lovely event — come through and say hi :) www.nyfwa.org/nyfwa-event/...

Digital health unicorn Innovaccer rolls out a new software platform to pull together AI tools & data in one place. “Healthcare is the only place where technology came in and everything became more inefficient,” CEO Abhibav Shashank says. My latest @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

My latest: I talked to Abel Avellan, whose company AST SpaceMobile is racing the likes of SpaceX and Amazon to a new market: using satellites to let you use your cell phone wherever you are--and to connect the over 2 billion people across the world who don't have regular internet access.

I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

NEW: Ready or not–and despite a spotty safety record–Tesla is racing to launch a pilot ride service in Austin to show off its self-driving chops. It’s Elon Musk’s latest risky bet www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

Between this and the recent articles from Chronicle of Higher Ed and New York mag about AI-facilitated cheating, I have to wonder how many classes are now a closed loop of homework generated by ChatGPT, whose answers are written by ChatGPT, which are then graded by ChatGPT.

Saw this question from the other site earlier today and spluttered: No! No chatbot answer is ever 'authentic'! Chatbots are developed by corporations to advance those corporations' aims and the fact that we only occasionally notice they're doing that is The Problem! www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

New from me: chatbots for schoolchildren dispensed dangerous information — including instructions for how to synthesize fentanyl and a date rape drug — in tests conducted by Forbes. www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

“Meta is seeing every other big tech firm and reading the tea leaves, seeing that maybe the expected windfall from civilian use of AI is not going to appear,” said Shana Marshall from George Washington University. Great story by @davidjeans.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...

New: Meta is recruiting former national security officials to bolster its military ambitions, months after allowing its Llama AI model to be used for military use. www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...

SCOOP: Legal AI startup and Harvey challenger Legora (formerly Leya) is in talks to raise $85 million in funding at a $675 million valuation. General Catalyst and Iconiq are leading the investment. With @iainmartin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

NEW: Inside the factory building Waymo’s robotaxi future An exclusive look inside the facility turning Jaguar EVs into robotaxis with Waymo’s custom computing system, cameras, lidar and radar. Soon, tens of thousands of robotaxis will roll off the line annually. www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

New: Hustle culture has always been ingrained in Silicon Valley’s DNA. Now as AI booms, some startups are requiring 6 or 7 day work weeks. One of them is Mercor, a $2 billion recruitment unicorn founded by Thiel Fellows. With @iainmartin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/richar...