Amazon AWS CEO Matt Garman pushes back against Elon Musk’s space data centers plan
Amazon has more than 900 data centers spread across the planet. And if you ask Matt Garman, the CEO of Amazon Web Services, that is exactly where they’ll stay for…
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Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie helped lure the Super Bowl when Levi’s Stadium was under construction. Now he’s mayor for the $440 million windfall
Since taking office in 2025, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has been on a mission to shake the city out of a post-pandemic economic slump. A political outsider, Lurie was…
New Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro stands to make $45 million, but he’ll also get something priceless—a ‘clean break’ with Bob Iger
Walt Disney’s new CEO, Josh D’Amaro, has been set up with a lucrative pay package for his first year, with a total grant-date value of roughly $45 million and a…
Mattress Firmness Scale: How Firm Should Your Bed Be?
It’s one of the first questions you’ll need to consider when shopping for a new bed: how soft or firm do you want it to be? While your answer mostly…
‘Space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale’: Elon Musk hatches grand plan as he merges SpaceX and xAI
Elon Musk is joining his space exploration and artificial intelligence ventures into a single company before what’s expected to be a massive initial public offering for the business later this…
Google raises another $16 billion for self-driving taxi unit Waymo
Robotaxi pioneer Waymo has raised another $16 billion to help fuel its ambition for its fleet of self-driving cars to provide rides throughout the world while other deep-pocketed rival services…
We need more capitalists, not necessarily more capitalism
Two things are clear after the World Economic Forum in Davos: longstanding American allies are growing skeptical of our nation’s leadership and simultaneously cannot stop imagining the possibilities of American-designed…
Gates Foundation doubles down on foreign aid as U.S. government largely withdraws
The Gates Foundation will not change course in the face of massive foreign aid cuts, holding out hope that the U.S. specifically will return to funding the global health projects…
What should business leaders say about Alex Pretti’s death?
In the aftermath of Alex Pretti’s killing by federal immigration officers, two public statements emerged that reveal very different understandings of civic responsibility. One came in the form of an…
Why President Trump’s latest crypto scandal could spell disaster for the blockchain industry
Just over a year ago, I stood in a gilded Washington, D.C. ballroom during inauguration weekend, surrounded by the blockchain industry’s top executives and investors. They had traded in their…