Every time you use AI, you are, in some small way, depending on a 42-year-old, 44,000-person Dutch company that spends €4.5 billion each year to…
Author: Connie Loizos
Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies |
Uber has a long-term ambition that goes well beyond shuttling passengers: the company eventually wants to outfit its human drivers’ cars with sensors to soak…
Replit's Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he'd rather not sell |
Amjad Masad has been building Replit for a decade, but the last 18 months have been something else entirely. The AI coding assistant company went…
Drizzle on top: a new high-end dog food brand is coming for the 1% |
The pet food aisle has never been more crowded, which is exactly why Hilary Coles says she was skeptical when the startup studio Atomic came…
At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship |
In Brief Posted: 5:40 PM PDT · April 28, 2026 Among the most interesting parts of Elon Musk’s testimony Tuesday in his lawsuit against OpenAI…
Apple's John Ternus will run one of the world's most powerful companies; the job is a minefield |
Over his 15-year reign as Apple’s top banana, Tim Cook has become instantly recognizable, powerful beyond imagination, and exceedingly wealthy. Most estimates peg Cook’s current…
The 12-month window |
In Brief Posted: 12:30 PM PDT · April 19, 2026 In a recent episode of “No Priors” — the excellent podcast co-hosted by AI investors…
Once close enough for an acquisition, Stripe and Airwallex are now going after each other |
Jack Zhang was 34 years old, three and a half years into running a startup, and sitting across from one of the most powerful investors…
Airwallex is about to take on Stripe and the rest of the payments industry — in the physical world |
Airwallex, the Australian fintech that has spent a decade quietly building global payments infrastructure, is moving into in-person payments. The move deepens its rivalry with…