Technology

IQ, EQ, and coachability all play a part. What does it mean to be “smart” or “dumb”? Few questions are more deceptively complex.

Mastodon’s creator, Eugen Rochko, is stepping down as CEO of the open source, decentralized social network and X rival, as part of the organization’s transition to a non-profit structure, announced at the beginning of the year. The change is Mastodon’s most significant leadership overhaul to date, and one designed to ensure Mastodon’s longevity. As part…

The China-based fast-fashion retailer opened its first permanent shop at the BHV Marais department store last week.

Current and former OpenAI employees have grown increasingly frustrated by the fact that the company hasn’t allowed them to donate their equity to charity in years. But OpenAI has finally seemed to bow to pressure, sending out an email from the company’s equity team stating that current and former employees with eligible shares will be…

AI engineers often chase performance by scaling up LLM parameters and data, but the trend toward smaller, more efficient, and better-focused models has accelerated.  The Phi-4 fine-tuning methodology is the cleanest public example of a training approach that smaller enterprise teams can copy. It shows how a carefully chosen dataset and fine-tuning strategy can make…

E-commerce sellers are, perhaps predictably, looking to cash in on some of the more viral details of the recently released Jeffrey Epstein documents. Last week, Congress released more than 23,000 pages of documents from the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s estate to the public.

A pro-AI super PAC backed by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman has chosen New York Assembly member Alex Bores — and his congressional bid — as its first target.  The PAC, dubbed Leading the Future, formed in August with a more than $100 million commitment to support policymakers with a light-touch — or…

JP Morgan predicts US banks will see a 6% drop in bond issuance due to reduced supply needs after leverage ratio reforms.

Google filed a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by anti-corporate diversity activist Robby Starbuck, who claimed Google’s AI falsely associated him with sexual assault allegations and a white nationalist. Starbuck is seeking $15 million in damages from Google. But the company says in its filing that his claims simply represent his “misuse of…

What separates the SOCs getting results from their AI strategies from those that don't begins with CISOs who take ownership of AI initiatives and anticipate roadblocks early, systematically demolishing legacy walls that get in the way. The disconnect between AI's promise and delivery dominated discussions at Forrester's 2025 Security & Risk Summit last week. "We…