Alexa’s New AI Brain Is Stuck in the Lab
Amazon is eager to take on ChatGPT, but technical challenges have forced the company to repeatedly postpone the updated voice assistant’s debut.
Addded Oct 31, 2024
How Nvidia Became ChatGPT’s Brain and Joined the $1 Trillion Club
CEO Jensen Huang’s big bet on AI went from hand-delivering processors to Elon Musk and Sam Altman in 2016 to joining today’s alpha pack of Silicon Valley.
Addded Jun 15, 2023
Elon Musk Is Running Twitter Like a Failing Newspaper Business
Elon Musk is treating Twitter like a dying newspaper.
Addded Nov 22, 2022
One of Gaming’s Most Hated Execs Is Jumping Into the Metaverse
After leaving EA a mess, Unity CEO John Riccitiello turned mobile games into a lucrative advertising wasteland. Now he’s betting his company’s future on commercializing virtual worlds.
Addded Nov 14, 2022
ADT Is Betting Google Can Drag It Into the Future
The century-old security giant best known for its octagonal blue logo is banking on a smart-home partnership with a company that’s also one of its biggest threats.
Addded Jun 29, 2022
Microsoft and an Army of Tiny Telecoms Are Part of a Plan to Wire Rural America
With help from Washington, the 120 million Americans without high-speed internet access have their best shot in a generation at getting it-so long as they’re flexible on how.
Addded Sep 23, 2021
The Email From Alexis Ohanian That Kicked Off Reddit. Seriously, Bro
Introducing Starred, a series where we take you deep inside the inboxes of our favorite entrepreneurs. Joining us today, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian.
Addded Sep 22, 2021
The China Model: What the Country’s Tech Crackdown Is Really About
After spending years emulating Silicon Valley, the world’s second-biggest economy is now officially charting its own course.
Addded Jul 29, 2021
Robbing the Xbox Vault: Inside a $10 Million Gift Card Fraud
A junior Microsoft engineer figured out a nearly perfect Bitcoin generation scheme in the ultimate virtual currency cheat.
Addded Jul 1, 2021
Bill Gates’s Carefully Curated Geek Image Unravels in Two Weeks
Microsoft co-founder’s philanthropic legacy is threatened by new revelations about his behavior
Addded May 21, 2021
Apple Is the $2.3 Trillion Fortress That Tim Cook Built
Trade war? Pfft. Trump? Please. Antitrust? Zuck’s prob. (Ditto privacy.) Revenue? Endless.
Addded Feb 9, 2021
The Cruise Ship Suicides Began After the Last Passengers Left
Confined mostly to tiny cabins, crew members found themselves forced to stay aboard-sometimes without pay-and struggling to cope with a monthslong lockdown.
Addded Dec 30, 2020
Printing’s Not Dead: The $35 Billion Fight Over Ink Cartridges
America’s onetime innovation icons are wrestling over their biggest remaining piles of money.
Addded Feb 28, 2020
Silicon Valley Is Listening to Your Most Intimate Moments
How the world’s biggest companies got millions of people to let temps analyze some very sensitive recordings.
Addded Dec 11, 2019
Disneyland Makes Surveillance Palatable--and Profitable
The “happiest place on earth” keeps lines moving efficiently partly by tracking guests’ activity at the park.
Addded Jul 16, 2019
The Most Valuable Company (for Now) Is Having a Nadellaissance
Under Satya Nadella, Microsoft has more subscribers than Netflix, more cloud computing revenue than Google, and a near-trillion-dollar market cap.
Addded May 2, 2019
The Smart Gun Doesn't Exist for the Dumbest Reasons
Firearms makers have resisted Silicon Valley-sponsored digital innovation that could transform public safety.
Addded Apr 15, 2019
Inside Wisconsin's Disastrous $4.5 Billion Deal With Foxconn
Interviews with 49 people familiar with the project depict a chaotic site that's unlikely to ever employ 13,000 people.
Addded Feb 6, 2019
Where in the World Is Larry Page?
While Alphabet faces existential challenges, its co-founder is exercising his right to be forgotten.
Addded Sep 13, 2018
The Future Of Retail In The Age Of Amazon
As Jeff Bezos’s juggernaut continues to grow, forward-thinking competitors are finding creative ways to succeed-and be what Amazon can never be.
Addded Nov 27, 2017
Should Facebook Notify Readers When They’ve Been Fed Disinformation?
Tech companies have the capabilities to introduce more stringent methods of policing propaganda and fake news. Here’s what’s holding them back.
Addded Nov 17, 2017
Alphabet's Eric Schmidt On Fake News, Russia, And 'Information Warfare'
“One of the things I did not understand,” says Schmidt, “was that these systems can be used to manipulate public opinion in ways that are quite inconsistent with what we think of as democracy.”
Addded Oct 31, 2017
Can Andy Rubin's Essential Phone Take On The Smartphone Giants?
The creator of Android wants to unleash innovation in a market dominated by Apple, Google, and Samsung. It won’t be easy.
Addded Sep 18, 2017
Inside Netflix’s Project Griffin: The Forgotten History Of Roku Under Reed Hastings
The inside history of the Netflix Player, a black and boxy device, which subscribers would hook up to their televisions to stream movies and TV shows from the web.
Addded Sep 6, 2017
Inside 'Steel Pulse,' The Project That Became Elon Musk's Solar Roof
Tesla’s sleek new product helped clinch the company’s merger with SolarCity. We investigate its mysterious origin.
Addded Jun 9, 2017
Should CEOs Like Oprah And Mark Cuban Run For President?
Starbucks’s Howard Schultz, Disney’s Bob Iger, and other biz leaders may be mulling 2020 presidential runs. Experts weigh in on why that matters.
Addded Apr 18, 2017
"Twisted And Mischaracterized": How FanDuel's CEO Is Fighting Back Against Detractors
LeBron James hammers down a thunderous dunk, and 18,000 fans at the 2016 NBA All-Star Game erupt in a reverberating "Ooohhh!" It's Valentine's Day at Toronto's Air Canada Centre, where James, Stephen Curry, Kobe Bryant, and other stars are dazzling the crowd.
Addded Apr 20, 2016
I Found Out My Secret Internal Tinder Rating And Now I Wish I Hadn't
How desirable are you on Tinder? You might not realize it, but anyone who's used the popular dating app is assigned an internal rating: a score calculated by the company that ranks the most (and least) desirable people swiping on the service.
Addded Jan 13, 2016
Apple's Angela Ahrendts On Where The Company Is Taking Retail Next
"The store is kind of like a big giant product." At Fast Company's Innovation Festival in New York, Angela Ahrendts, Apple's senior vice president for retail and online stores, discussed the customer experience beyond selling products, uniting Apple's online and offline stores, and her experience as one of the top executives at the world's most valuable company.
Addded Nov 10, 2015
What Snapchat's High-Profile Exec Departures Really Tell Us About CEO Evan Spiegel
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel has been able to recruit an impressive roster of top-tier talent to his Venice, California-based startup. And that's why when some of those same high-profile hires have departed, often rather quickly, questions have been raised about the direction of the company as well as about Spiegel's abilities as a manager.
Addded Oct 25, 2015
Inside Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel's Entertainment Empire
"We the millennials, bro!" Kanye West is 10 minutes and 43 seconds into his mesmerizingly elliptical sermon at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, and he's showing no signs of relenting. MTV producers had allotted just two minutes for his Vanguard Award acceptance speech.
Addded Oct 19, 2015
The Four Myths About Square's IPO Filing
This week Square filed for its long-rumored and long-anticipated IPO, and the public finally got a look at how Square's business is actually performing. All the pundits, anonymous sources, and leaked documents could now be considered in light of the actual facts. Did Square's S-1 prove the press had served up some scolding cups of claim chowder?
Addded Oct 16, 2015
The Inside Story of Starbucks's Race Together Campaign, No Foam
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has always tried to do right by his company, his customers & his country. So why did Race Together go so wrong?
Addded Jun 16, 2015
The Messy Business Of Reinventing Happiness
Bob Iger wanted approval. It was February 2011, and the Walt Disney Co. CEO gathered his board of directors inside an intimate theater at the company's Team Disney headquarters in Burbank, California. There, just the night before, Iger held an early screening for the board of Captain America: The First Avenger months prior to its release.
Addded Apr 16, 2015
The Real Story Behind Jeff Bezos's Fire Phone Debacle And What It Means For Amazon's Future
"What the hell happened?" It is a cold day in early December in Midtown Manhattan, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has barely taken his seat on stage when his interviewer throws out that brusque query. It's the question on the lips of every one of the 400 attendees of this tech conference, but it's still a jarring moment.
Addded Jan 6, 2015
The $3.2 Billion Man: Can Google’s Newest Star Outsmart Apple?
Lounging poolside in 93-degree July heat as Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" thrums through the patio speakers, Tony Fadell takes a sip of nonalcoholic beer and sinks far enough back into his chair that his belly peeks out from under his Lacoste polo.
Addded Sep 15, 2014
Jack Dorsey And Other Square Insiders Respond To All The Haters
Lately, Square CEO Jack Dorsey has been binge watching Friday Night Lights. The uplifting TV series, about a high school football team called the Dillon Panthers, is centrally themed around underdog comebacks.
Addded Aug 16, 2014
Back To Square One
Jack Dorsey doesn't know how to grade his performance. It's early May, and Dorsey has just finished his annual reviews of Square's 800 employees. He now needs to complete his own.
Addded Aug 12, 2014
Get Inside Whisper's Secret Economy
Michael Heyward is scouring the web for military secrets, though not of the Julian Assange variety. Over black tea at a dark hotel bar in downtown Los Angeles, Heyward and I sit next to each other, noses to a laptop as he searches on Whisper, the mobile service he created that lets anyone share their innermost secrets anonymously.
Addded Jul 14, 2014
The Secret To Airbnb's Freakishly Rapid Orgy Response: "Scenario Planning"
An Airbnb guest used a Manhattan apartment to hold a sex party last week. Here's how the company prepared a rapid response to the situation.
Addded Mar 18, 2014