Tim Cook to step down as Apple CEO in September; hardware veteran John Ternus to take the helm. Ternus faces an immediate challenge: fixing Apple’s lagging AI strategy as the company trails rivals in the generative AI race.
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Excited to reveal the 2026 Forbes AI 50 List, which spotlights the most promising privately-held AI companies in the world.
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Mercor reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate earlier this year. Run by the youngest-ever self made billionaires, the startup is facing a wave of challenges: employee fraud, North Korean infiltration and cultural growing pains.
With Anna Tong.
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Inside the latest edition of The Prompt: We're entering the era of "dark code" says VC Sarah Guo. And with AI agents shipping software super-fast, security incidents like Claude Code's leak and Mercor hit by a widespread attack are only going to be more prevalent.
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The OpenAI Graveyard: All The Deals And Products That Haven’t Happened.
With @pheebini.bsky.social.
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Crosby is an entirely new type of law firm where AI agents and lawyers work together to speed up contract review for buzzy AI startups like Cursor, Cognition and Runway. The $400 million-valued firm is disrupting the way traditional law firms work.
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Exclusive: Latent Health, which is building an AI system to help doctors and pharmacists get drugs and treatments approved by insurers faster, has raised $80 million from Spark Capital and Transformation Capital. The startup is valued at $600 million.
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🚨NEW🚨 Cops used an AI-generated teenager to catch pedophiles on Kik Messenger, an app notorious as a hive of predator activity.
A rare insight into how police can spin up AI teens for sting operations on social media.
But where else are cops using AI personas?
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After becoming the hottest, fastest growing AI coding company, Cursor is confronting a new reality: with the rise of powerful AI agents like Claude Code, developers may no longer need a code editor at all. With Anna Tong.
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After becoming the hottest, fastest growing AI coding company, Cursor is confronting a new reality: with the rise of powerful AI agents developers may no longer need a code editor at all. With Anna Tong.
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AI behemoth Anthropic has come into the U.S. government’s line of fire. But thanks to wild turn of events over the last few days, the Anthropic-Pentagon kerfuffle has become a optics headache for OpenAI.
A full recap in the latest edition of The Prompt:
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Anthropic has been on a roll lately, from snarky Superbowl ads to a $30 billion mega funding round to product launches that triggered a global software stock selloff.
Read more in the latest editon of The Prompt:
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Influencer marketing has helped AI video company Higgsfield hit $300 million in annual revenue run rate in just eleven months. But misleading marketing tactics, payment problems and a social media strategy based on shock has led to backlash among creators.
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Racist videos, misleading marketing tactics and payment problems: the dark side of video AI startup Higgsfield's super fast growth.
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Moltbook, the social media platform dedicated to AI agents, exploded in popularity over the weekend. While humans supposedly aren't allowed to participate, they sure had a lot of reactions, from being unimpressed to calling it "swarm intelligence."
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While authors litigate, publishers are leaning in.
Publishers like Penguin Random House, Macmillan, and Wiley are actively, and perhaps quietly, recruiting AI engineers. Despite writer pushback, the industry is looking to leverage AI for back-office efficiency.
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Talking with Alex LeBrun, cofounder of Nabla and CEO of Yann LaCun’s new AI startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, about why healthcare will be a big focus.
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Daniel Nadler, the 42-year-old CEO and cofounder of OpenEvidence has doubled his net worth to $7.6 billion after his medical AI startup hit a $12 billion valuation. First one of the year from me!
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🚨NEW🚨 Google shipped its AI code editor Antigravity with a bunch of security vulnerabilities.
The most severe, discovered within 24 hours of launch, allows for a persistent backdoor on target systems.
It remains unpatched.
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"An AI-assembled version of Gargano’s Christmas cake, for instance, would have people cooking a 6-inch cake for 3 to 4 hours at 320°F (160°C).
'You’d end up with charcoal!' she said. Meanwhile, traffic to her turkey recipe is already down 40% year over year."
Scoop from @iainmartin.bsky.social, @rashis.bsky.social and me: Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise at a $6 billion valuation. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
🚨SCOOP 🚨The Pentagon is spending millions on a secretive startup that’s making hacking AI to help carry out operations on hundreds of targets at once.
In-q-tel, the VC org founded by the CIA, is a backer of the startup, called Twenty.
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NEW: The four cofounders of popular AI coding software Cursor are newly minted billionaires. Michael Truell, Aman Sanger, Sualeh Asif and Arvid Lunnemark are each worth at least $1.31 billion, according to Forbes' estimates.
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AI language learning app Speak has crossed $100 million in annualized revenue. Founded by former Thiel fellows Connor Zwick and Andrew Hsu in 2016, the company is up against better-known rival Duolingo as it enters the U.S. market.
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We spoke to experts who pointed out that chief dealmaker Altman, who has claimed he has no stake in the company, doesn’t have much to lose. “He can commit to as much as he wants... Either he uses it, he renegotiates it, or he walks away.”
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One likely scenario is that the AI company pays for and utilizes only a portion of the compute it has booked said D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria. “They don't want OpenAI to go bankrupt, so their incentive is to renegotiate,” he told Forbes.
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OpenAI has gone wild with compute deals this year, committing to spend far more than its balance sheet can currently sustain. So who takes the fall if it can’t pay?
Latest for @forbes.com with @pheebini.bsky.social and @richardnieva.bsky.social.
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New: I profiled Sierra, the $10B AI customer service startup from Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, which wants to make AI agents the primary way businesses interact with customers. For the piece, I talked to their old bosses, Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai www.forbes.com/sites/richar...
NEW: Former xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is in talks to raise $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation to build AI models that are better at collaborating with humans. The startup is called Humans&. With Anna Tong and @iainmartin.bsky.social.
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