Business Innovation
U.S.-China gastrodiplomacy: Despite political tension, fast food chains from both countries gain popularity in each other’s territory | Fortune
China and the United States are divided on many issues, from tariffs and technology to Taiwan. But there is one thing tying them together: fast food.American restaurant and beverage chains are expanding rapidly in China, drawn by the potential customer pool in a country...
Business Innovation
Pat Gelsinger and Naveen Rao: we’ve seen Silicon Valley move fast and break things, but consider the math of where we’re headed | Fortune
We Work In AI. We’ve Seen It Eliminate Jobs. We’ve Also Seen It Create More JobsSilicon Valley used to encourage one another to “move fast and break things.” Then we broke everything. And people started to get angry.Every major...
Business Innovation
OpenAI hires Brian McCarthy from SpaceX as its VP of worldwide sales | Fortune
OpenAI has hired Brian McCarthy from SpaceX to become its vice president of worldwide sales.McCarthy joined SpaceX in August through its acquisition of Cursor. At both companies he served as the president of global revenue and worldwide field operations....
Business Innovation
I’m a female founder with a liberal arts degree and my company has raised $280m. You don’t need a PhD to build a robotics...
Before I co-founded Dexory a decade ago, I had no experience in robotics. I am a go-to-market specialist with degrees in both liberal arts and business, a fiction and fantasy obsessed reader, and I am a woman who comes...
Business Innovation
Karin Rådström is steering Daimler Truck in a new direction as the world’s biggest truckmaker faces a growing challenge from China | Fortune
Karin Rådström is used to being the only woman in the room. She was the first to lead Scania’s bus and coach division, having worked her way through the ranks from marketing trainee to head of sales and marketing...
Business Innovation
Anthropic’s new research maps three wildly different futures for the AI economy | Fortune
Welcome to Eye on AI. Beatrice Nolan here. In today’s issue:Anthropic examines the economic impact of AI.U.S. accuses Chinese AI firms of industrial-scale model copying.Meta launches its AI agent, Muse.And the amount businesses spend on AI is falling.Anthropic has...
Business Innovation
Mamdani to New York City kids: No AI until high school | Fortune
He might be the second-youngest mayor in New York City history, but 34-year-old Mayor Zohran Mamdani didn’t have AI in school, and he wants to make sure city kids don’t either.The digital-native politician, who said he doesn’t use AI...
Business Innovation
Trump calls data center opponents ‘backwards and poor’ as the industry props up the economy—but his own party wants nothing to do with it...
President Trump took to Truth Social this week to warn any town still weighing whether to fight a data center. Communities that turn them away, he wrote, are choosing to be “backwards and poor.” The ones that welcome them...
Business Innovation
Why Apple’s next CEO shows you don’t need to ‘move out to move up’ | Fortune
John Ternus, who takes over as CEO of Apple this week, joined Apple in 2001, just four years after he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. Satya Nadella entered Microsoft in 1992, only two years after completing his master’s...
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Timelapse shows Typhoon Dujuan barrelling towards Japan
A powerful typhoon passing Japan's eastern coast is bringing major disruption and heavy rainfall in its wake. The police...