Elon Musk looks on as President Donald Trump speaks at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Nov. 19, 2025. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images French cybercrime authorities have escalated an investigation of Elon Musk and his social network X to a criminal probe,…
Or perhaps those fruit flies are crowding a fermenting sourdough starter, or swarming a banana that’s about to become an unwanted mush pile. But, for biomedical scientist CaÃque Costa, fruit flies aren’t meant to be swatted—when studied, they’re where cancer breakthroughs may begin. “When people think of a scientist, they don’t think about a fruit…
Most corporate employees in America have likely signed up for ChatGPT. And Claude. And possibly Cursor. Their employer’s security team has no idea—or even if they do, they can’t keep up. This paradox is why Vanta is having a blockbuster year. The San Francisco-based security and compliance company has crossed $300 million in annual recurring…
A former top researcher at Google AI division DeepMind announced Monday a record $1.1 billion seed round for his months-old startup, Ineffable Intelligence. The startup is pursuing superintelligence and was founded in late 2025 by UCL professor and former lead of DeepMind’s reinforcement learning team, David Silver. The seed round is the largest ever in…
Sam Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank. Courtesy: Customers Bank Nearly half an hour into a conference call on Friday to discuss first-quarter results with analysts, Customers Bank CEO Sam Sidhu revealed something unusual — up until that point, he hadn’t actually been speaking. “The prepared remarks you heard on my behalf today were delivered by…