Recent reports about AI project failure rates have raised uncomfortable questions for organizations investing heavily in AI. Much of the discussion has focused on technical factors like model accuracy and data quality, but after watching dozens of AI initiatives launch, I’ve noticed that the biggest opportunities for improvement are often cultural, not technical. Internal projects…
Hollywood’s biggest night takes place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles tonight. Here’s how cord-cutters can catch it live. It’s time for the dazzling conclusion to the 2026 awards season. After the Hollywood elites walk the red carpet, the curtain will rise on the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 15, which is tonight.
Unacademy, once a one of India’s most valuable edtech startups, is set to be acquired by rival upGrad in an all-stock deal that would bring together two major online learning platforms in the country. On Sunday, Unacademy co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal said in a post on X that the companies had signed a term…
Korea Investment Partners, the country’s largest VC, invested US$10 million in SpaceX last year.
Need something new for your reading list? This week, we recommend A.D. Sui’s The Iron Garden Sutra, a meditative horror sci-fi/fantasy and murder mystery. I don’t typically gravitate toward locked room mysteries, but the description of this book ticked all the right boxes to win me over: “a death monk and a team of researchers…
David Sacks, the White House’s AI and crypto czar, has warned that a continued war in Iran could be catastrophic. On the All In podcast, Sacks said that “we should try to find the off-ramp.” He expressed concern that Iran could demolish oil and gas infrastructure across the Middle East, but more alarmingly, that it…
‘I’m convinced that the industry will weather this radical disruption,’ a USC cinematic arts professor says. I teach a course on AI and filmmaking at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and lately, rather than planning each session well in advance, I’ve been structuring the class the night before. I’ll browse platforms like X, Substack, and…
I get it; it’s not an easy time for a legacy automaker to be selling electric vehicles, what with incentives being gutted and Chinese automakers knocking at the door. But Honda is taking it to another level. This week, Honda killed its paltry — and frankly unpromising — EV programs. What little motivation Honda had to compete…
Realities of war: SEA tech players brace for impact as oil supplies fall and prices surge while geopolitical risk enters the Gulf’s data center scene.
There may have been some extra incentive for the Trump administration to get the TikTok US deal done. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration is set to receive a total of $10 billion in the deal that allowed TikTok to remain in the US. The new investors who acquired…
