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Double Fine Founder Tim Schafer Questions Economics of the Game Industry Amid Mass Layoffs and Studio Closures
Double Fine founder Tim Schafer says he no longer “understands the economics” of game development following Xbox’s mass layoffs and industry-wide studio closures.
CyberPowerPC Gaming PCs With Founder's Edition Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 GPUs Are on Sale During the Walmart GeForce Week Sale Event
Part of the Walmart's GeForce Week Sale that ends on September 27.
Selena Gomez Got Candid About Beauty and Mental Health—Here’s What I Learned
The Rare Beauty founder shared her genius mascara alternative, how she handles pressure to look like her 2016 self, and why her mental health mission is so personal.
Health Watch: Lumin Health
Dr. Benjamin Yudkoff, MD, MA (Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Lumin Health) joined Fox 5 DC.
Scientists stunned: the red-footed tortoise may actually have an optimistic mindset - Futura-Sciences
Meet the Reptile Detectives: At Lincoln University’s Cold-Blooded Cognition Lab Let’s take a trip (no suitcase needed!) to the Cold-Blooded Cognition Lab at Lincoln University, right in the heart of England, not far from the East coast. Our host is Anna Wilkinson, founder of the lab back in 2007. Anna...
Dead Kennedys' East Bay Ray diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dead Kennedys co-founder East Bay Ray, one of the greatest punk rock guitarists of all time, has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The news was made
Melania Trump launches new Imperia women’s initiative
Its member include CEOs, founders, innovators and entrepreneurs
Codie Sanchez Doesn't Want to Compete With Sam Altman. She Says Founders Should Buy a Business Instead
Codie Sanchez argues that buying a proven small business can offer better odds, existing demand, and greater control than starting one from scratch.
Why these company founders chose Detroit to scale their businesses
In the past two years, more than a dozen companies have chosen to establish their early-stage companies in the city.
Fast Company's Best Dressed in Business 2026
Meet the executives, founders, athletes, and leaders who set the bar for dressing well at work.
5 founders share their advice for launching a company
The founders of companies including Olipop, PopSockets, and Preply share their advice to entrepreneurs.
Health Partners Group Appoints Ruth Handcock as Chief Executive Officer
LONDON, September 23, 2026--Health Partners Group, the UK’s leading provider of high-quality occupational health and treatment services, today announced that Ruth Handcock will join as Chief Executive Officer, effective from 2nd November 2026. Andrew Noble, Co-Founder, who has served as CEO for the past ten years, will become Co-Chairman, working closely with Ruth, the senior leadership team and the Board.
CyberPowerPC Launches RTX Founders Edition Pre-Built PCs Starting at $1,549
NVIDIA's Founders Edition graphics cards are generally restricted to its own retail channels, but it seems as though CyberPowerPC has a limited run of RTX 50-series GPUs available in its pre-built gaming PCs for a GeForce Week event, which is slated to run until September 27. The CyberPowerPCs...
Armand Hammer's private art collection arrives at Sotheby's L.A.
Hammer Museum founder Armand Hammer's private art collection will go up for auction after a preview exhibition at Sotheby's L.A. Works include Mary Cassatt's "Summertime" and Edgar Degas' "Trois danseuses."
CyberPowerPC now sells prebuilt PCs with NVIDIA RTX 50 Founders Edition GPUs, 1,000 RTX 5080 systems sell in one day
CyberPowerPC is using NVIDIA's own RTX 50 Founders Edition cards in new Walmart systems. The RTX 5080 configuration with Ryzen 7 9800X3D costs $2,299.
Hidden Local NH maps New Hampshire small businesses - Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Hidden Local NH founder Christine Carr helps New Hampshire small businesses grow by highlighting local shops and events online.
Serenity Mental Health Centers Co-Founders Ben and Tricia Pease Named 2026 Salt Lake City Titan 100 Honorees
SALT LAKE CITY, September 22, 2026--Serenity Mental Health Centers co-founders and chief executives Ben and Tricia Pease have been named 2026 Salt Lake City Titan 100 honorees.
Joanna Gaines Says She Avoided 1 Side of Magnolia’s Business for 10 Years. Now She’s Leading It.
The founder of Magnolia said a key aspect of the business was something she turned away from for years. That just changed.
Eye on Small Business
Andi Schreiber, founder and owner of Eye Candy Boudoir in Scarsdale. Courtesy Alison Sheehy Photography. Once largely associated with bridal
Private-equity legend David Rubenstein on owning the Baltimore Orioles, and how sports ownership became big business
The Carlyle co-founder is a billionaire and a giant name in modern finance. His new book looks at sports ownership through a different lens.
As TK Health co-founder seeks attorney general job, Hanchett family presses for criminal investigation
If elected, Jon Echols would oversee the state multi-county grand jury. The state attorney general has the power to seek criminal indictments in connection with jail deaths.
BKL Nightly: Greg Connors on the Bills, Business and Life Behind the Curtain
Connors & Ferris co-founder Greg Connors joins Thad on BKL Nightly to talk Buffalo Bills football, from the team’s early-season start to the players making an impact. Connors also takes viewers behind the curtain of his longtime relationship with the Bills as a business partner and shares more about the career and community work that have shaped his life.
Quintin Primo in talks to join stalled Michael Reese redevelopment team
Capri Investment Group's founder is negotiating for a substantial stake as City Hall presses the development team for a new plan.
Local Opinion: Religion and politics are inextricably connected
"Politics," as the Founders understood it, is the art of governance for the common good, a purpose that requires a moral framework.
BKL Nightly: Greg Connors on the Bills, Business and Life Behind the Curtain
Connors & Ferris co-founder Greg Connors joins Thad on BKL Nightly to talk Buffalo Bills football, from the team’s early-season start to the players making an impact. Connors also takes viewers behind the curtain of his longtime relationship with the Bills as a business partner and shares more about the career and community work that have shaped his life.
Erika La Plante Honored with Inaugural UC Regents Innovation Award
The associate professor of materials science and engineering, received the Best Startup Award for her work as co-founder and head of monitoring, reporting and verification and environmental strategy at Equatic.
Walmart Has the Best Deal on a GeForce RTX 5080 Prebuilt Gaming PC I've Seen in Months, and It Even Includes a Founder's Edition GPU
Equipped with an RTX 5080 Founder's Edition GPU, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD.
Women’s Brain Health Is Philanthropy’s Next Big Bet
Maria Shriver, founder of the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement, makes the case for treating women’s brain health as a philanthropic investment priority. Shriver argues that targeted investment in women…
The Nurse Is Health Care’s Most Underpriced Founder
They see the problem first, build the fix, and decide whether it is ever adopted. The market has trained them to hide the one credential that de-risks the deal.
Filipina Physician-Scientist Named National Finalist for 2026 ASEAN–U.S. Science Prize for Women
Dr. Venus Oliva Cloma-Rosales, Founder of 101 Health Research, has been named the Philippine National Finalist in the Mid-Career category of the 2026 UL Research Institutes ASEAN–U.S. Science Prize for Women. Her work uses artificial intelligence and health data science to support inclusive, resilient healthcare and evidence-based decision-making in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. MANILA, […]
Young voters are ‘SICK AND TIRED’ of Trump: Gen-Z political commentator unpacks the youth vote
There’s less than seven weeks until the midterm elections are here. And President Trump seems to be struggling to convince voters that he's improved their lives and delivered on his promises. Co-Founder & President of Run for Something Amanda Litman, founder of Ahmed Baba News on Substack and Independent Journalist Ahmed Baba, Gen-Z Political Commentator and Founder of Mockler Media Adam Mockler and Senior Executive Editor of Bloomberg Opinion and MS NOW Political Analyst Timothy O'Brien join Antonia Hylton to discuss.
How This Founder Turned Her Side Hustle Into a $500,000 Business
Former Survivor cast member Liz Wilcox was working as a copy editor when she had the idea to start selling email templates.
[Science Through Covers] EGFR T790M mutation in US Southeast drives inherited lung cancer risk
Harvard Medical School team links 200-year-old founder effect to sharply higher lung cancer risk among non-smokers in southern Appalachia
Power & Politics: Voter registration hearing; New poll on NJ's 7th Congressional District; ICE accused of using Roxbury warehouse
Author of New Jersey Playbook and Politico Reporter Matt Friedman and Founder and Director of Stimsight Research Patrick Murray join the show this week.
Sheryl Sandberg on why more women are leaving corporate leadership
Former Meta COO and Lean In founder Sheryl Sandberg believes women are quitting corporate roles because they don't feel valued enough.
The U.S. Founders Warned Against Political Parties. They Were Right.
George Washington, John Adams and James Madison all warned that party loyalty could hollow out the republic.
Defence firm Anduril says US delay on Taiwan arms sales affecting its business
US defence tech firm Anduril's founder Palmer Luckey said on Saturday that President Donald Trump's delay in approving arms sales to Taiwan is affecting its business and that he has discussed this with Trump.
Defence Firm Anduril Says US Delay on Taiwan Arms Sales Affecting Its Business
By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI, Sept 19 (Reuters) - US defence tech firm Anduril's founder Palmer Luckey said on Saturday that President Donald Trump's delay in approving arms sales to Taiwan is affecting its business and that he has discussed this with Trump. The $14 billion package for Taiwan has been ...
From Proselytism to Politics: Bishop Barron Addresses Hot-Button Issues on EWTN
The Word on Fire founder clarifies the call to evangelize, defends his nonpartisan advisory role on religious liberty, and warns of resurgent communism.
Stand Up For Science Founder Addresses Senate & Sciences Po Amid France’s Landmark Move to Protect Academic
Visit underscores growing international attention to academic freedom as a bipartisan cause as movements target higher education.
‘PIX Financial Fix’: Turn a sidehustle into a business
NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — Delivery apps can be a fast way to earn extra income, but they are not built to grow into a business. Daeron Myers, founder of Courier Business Academy, joins PIX11 Mo…
Founder Bobbi Brown Celebrates Jones Road Beauty, Brains & Business in The Heart of Silicon Valley
From better-for-you makeup to female empowerment, Bobbi Brown brought powerhouse women together to celebrate Jones Road Beauty's new store opening in Palo Alto.
Boardroom CEO on rising sports ticket prices: The reality of demand for a live experience
Rich Kleiman, Boardroom co-founder and CEO, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the rising ticket prices for live sporting events, the growing demand for live sports, media and streaming rights, and more.
What Larroudé founder Marina Larroudé wears to work
Marina Larroudé is the cofounder of the celebrity-loved shoe brand Larroudé. Her work wardrobe is colorful, practical, and often secondhand.
Vheda Health plans targeted acquisitions and national growth following a $47M raise
The Columbia, Maryland, startup will use its first institutional investment from Agora to expand its chronic and maternity care platform beyond 18 states.
Hero Esports launches world’s first international humanoid robot sports league in Riyadh
Danny Tang, Co-Founder and CEO of Hero Esports, discusses the launch of their prototype event Cyberhero x Riyadh and why Saudi Arabia was chosen to host the inaugural edition.
Executive Profile: Laura Martina
Laura Martina Founder/CEO Leadby What we do: Results-driven leadership development services customized to meet the needs of executives and teams. Education: Bachelor of Science from Fresno State in business administration, human resources
In The Lead: Women-Owned Businesses 2026
Behind every business in this year’s In the Lead: Women-Owned Businesses section is a founder who decided, at some point, that building something of her own was worth the risk.
Rising Tide Distributors, Inc.
Rising Tide Distributors, Inc. is a New York-based wine and spirits distribution company founded by Nicole Lyons with a mission to create greater access, opportunity and visibility for emerging brands, with a particular commitment to brands led by diverse founders and women.
Kim Kardashian's esophagitis diagnosis raises concerns over dad's death
A recent diagnosis for Kim Kardashian is worrying her inner circle. In a Sept. 17 trailer for Season 8 of "The Kardashians," the Skims founder, 45, is diagnosed with esophagitis.
Selena Gomez Revealed the 2 Mental Health Life Lessons She's Adopted From Benny Blanco
Selena Gomez credits her husband, Benny Blanco, with bringing out a much more confident, self-assured side of her. In a new People cover story, the 34-year-old Rare Beauty founder said she’s finally t...
After 54 years, Sterling Equities announces ownership split
Sterling Equities announces a split between founders Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz after 54 years, reshaping the Long Island real estate firm’s ownership.
Codie Sanchez explains her 'kind of intense' approach to meetings
The founder of Contrarian Thinking and author of the new book "Own or Be Owned" encourages people to leave a meeting at any time.
Steph Ruhle kicks off the first ever live show of Money Power Politics
We are just 47 days away from the midterm elections and polling shows Americans are not happy with President Trump's economic policies. MS NOW Political Director Shawna Thomas, MS NOW Business Analyst Ron Insana, Axios Co-founders Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei join Stephanie Ruhle for the first ever live show of "Money Power Politics" to share their analysis.
Fire Awards spotlights Austin founders building satellites, AI infrastructure and next-gen healthcare
Austin's startup scene celebrates innovation with Fire Awards honoring 40 companies advancing AI, robotics, healthcare and energy technology.
Booming Business: Atlanta Firm Creates Cleaner Way to Sop Up Oil Spills
After the Deepwater Horizon spill, o-founder and CEO Sudhir Sharma, a Georgia Tech Ph.D. and chemical engineer, started wrestling with how to actually clean up spilled oil instead of just moving the problem from the ocean to the landfill.
After steep losses in the primaries, what's next for the League of RI Businesses?
The conservative group created 40 PACs to back “pro-business” Democrats. It didn't work. Now they have a new plan: warning voters about socialism. “People get afraid of that,” the League’s cofounder said.
After steep losses in the primaries, what's next for the League of RI Businesses?
The conservative group created 40 PACs to back “pro-business” Democrats. It didn't work. Now they have a new plan: warning voters about socialism. “People get afraid of that,” the League’s cofounder said.
The Business of Belonging: Turning Audience into Community
Featuring Johanna Faries, President , Blizzard Entertainment; Justine Palefsky, Cofounder and CEO, Kindred and Alphonzo Terrell, Founder and CEO, Spill. Moderated by Morgan Brady, Executive Director, Community and Membership, Fast Company
Aura Entertainment on Life After Distributing Obsession
A year after the biggest Toronto sale in history, the founders of the indie distributor open up about staying disciplined, choosing "the movie no one else sees," and why the market gap is still original content.
Co-founder Max Hodak joins the agenda lineup on Disrupt 2026
Hear why Science Corp CEO Max Hodak says the screen era is ending at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register before Sept 25 to save up to $200.
Day 2 Of Bonduel Founders Day Coverage: Vendors and Live Entertainment
BONDUEL, WI – Bonduel Founders Day returns this Saturday with more than 100 vendors expected, along with food, activities and live entertainment throughout the downtown area. Organizer Kayla Prichard says there is still room to add more vendors before the event. “There is a little […]
AI regulation debate intensifies as Whoop CEO Will Ahmed discusses health tech
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Vice President JD Vance push for AI self-regulation. Plus, Whoop Founder and CEO Will Ahmed discusses utilizing artificial intelligence to track fitness, sleep and stress.
Ukrainian defence tech seeks new ways to scale up
Since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine's defence sector has expanded several-fold, becoming a significant source of military innovation, especially in unmanned systems, counter-drone technologies, electronic warfare and AI-driven combat systems. But finding the funds and personnel to scale up and to reach international markets remains a challenge.Spurred on by the demands of the front-line, Ukrainian defence companies say they can develop a minor component in a couple of weeks, or major hardware or software solutions within a year. This is several times faster than the usual development cycles in the sector. Tencore, founded in 2024, is now one of Ukraine’s largest providers of unmanned ground vehicles, well exceeding the production of NATO members in this category. Odd Systems, a Ukrainian combat cameras developer founded in 2023, launched its first thermal camera in 2024. Less than two years later, it is developing the fourth generation of the product, one that has evolved into a full vision system.According to Michael Singer, managing partner at Verne Capital, a venture capital fund supporting defence companies in Europe, this speed is down to the short feedback loop between the developer and the end user. “Ukrainian companies develop technologies in close interaction with soldiers and military units, test them under real combat conditions and rapidly incorporate feedback into the next generation of the product,” he says. “Sometimes we need to react to feedback and deploy an upgrade within hours,” says Polina Tymchenko, the spokesperson for Himera, which develops electronic warfare-resistant walkie-talkies. “It means that, as a company, you have to have a higher tolerance for risk, and also design your products in a way that fosters those quick changes.”Getting a product deployed by a combat command involves no paperwork other than a purchase order, says Perry Boyle, co-founder and chief executive of Mits Capital, a Ukrainian-US investment group focused on attracting capital for Ukraine's defence tech sector. “New weapons can be developed and deployed based largely on handshakes.”Nevertheless, the speed of development is largely subject to the level of funding, says Iryna Sukhomlyn, head of business development at RMachine, a developer of unmanned ground systems. “Financial support needs to start much earlier, particularly at technology readiness level 3-5, not only when most of the technological risk has already been removed,” she says.In 2025, Ukrainian defence tech companies attracted about $129 million in investment, with the true figure likely higher given the share of undisclosed security-sensitive deals, according to a report published by the Kyiv School of Economics. These investments were primarily concentrated in the AI and software segment, as they are considered a lower financial risk.Scaling production is a major barrierAccording to Iryna Supruniuk, business development director at Odd Systems, proving a defence product in Ukraine is not the end of the development process, but the beginning of a continuous evolution, since operational requirements change rapidly. “Continuous iteration remains our highest priority,” she says.It's also when production must scale up, which represents a major hurdle. “Scaling production requires capital, manufacturing capacity, components, certification, procurement access and reliable supply chains,” Singer says. Scale-up is also hampered by demographic pressures, especially a shortage of young specialists needed to expand engineering teams. Companies have reported struggling to replace specialists lost due to Russian attacks, mobilisation and emigration. In order to meet this scale-up challenge and finance arms production, begun allowing defence technologies to be exported, assuming it has an excess capacity. It has also announced the creation of ten defence and weapons export centres across Europe by the end of 2026.According to Singer, a technology that has demonstrated its value under real combat conditions has a fundamentally different credibility than a product that has only been tested in a laboratory or training environment. But combat validation alone doesn’t automatically create an international business. “Companies still need access to foreign defence ministries and procurement organisations, international certification, financing for production scale-up and, in many cases, local industrial partners,” he says.Already in 2026, the EU has signed several agreements with Ukraine that aim at joint defence technology development and production. These include allowing Ukraine to join the European Defence Fund, signing a financing agreement under the European Defence Industry Programme, and setting up the EU-Ukraine Drone Alliance.For Singer, it is important that European defence companies don’t just see their Ukrainian partners as technology suppliers, but rather as potential innovation partners. “Ukrainian companies bring speed, operational experience and an exceptional ability to iterate. European partners can provide industrial capacity, capital, established supply chains and access to European procurement markets.”Procurement possibilitiesWhen it comes to exports, the procurement and compliance processes involved require time, taking months or even years, and money. In other words, resources that small defence tech companies need if they are to improve and scale up their technologies. According to Sukhomlyn of RMachine, if the priority is to rapidly increase available defence capabilities, then the processes need to reflect that urgency. “If Europe wants defence innovation at wartime speed, its administrative processes also need to operate much closer to wartime speed,” she says, highlighting a need for support with certification, market access and mutual recognition of relevant testing. “Otherwise, we risk having excellent technology available but spending years making it administratively eligible to be purchased.”Related articlesRussia widens targeting of European research centresEU must support research managers in central and eastern Europe, says Visegrad fund headThis is a lesson Europe’s defence sector would do well to learn, Singer says. “Defence innovation needs to be organised around the speed and requirements of the end user, not around the speed of the bureaucracy.”Supruniuk says the European defence sector should rethink the balance between quality and quantity. “In many cases, a good-enough system available in thousands of units creates greater operational value than a perfect system available in dozens.”“For decades, everyone has been looking for that all-powerful, exquisite system that can protect everyone,” adds Tymchenko. “We see in crime that only scalable, dedicated, affordable solutions can actually defend democracies.”
A top Democratic donor says time is running out to stop Americans from hating AI
LinkedIn co-founder and influential Democratic donor Reid Hoffman says industry and government must show Americans how they can benefit from artificial intelligence.
From Ads to Entertainment: Why Brands Are Becoming Storytellers
Featuring Scott Brown, Founder and CEO, Second Rodeo Productions; Yasmin Dastmalchi, President, Maybelline and Essie USA, Maybelline New York and Michael
Bobby Seale to reissue 'Seize the Time' and publish new memoir 'I, Bobby'
Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, is reissuing his 1970 memoir "Seize the Time" as he approaches his 90th birthday | 830 WCCO
Zolli Candy CEO Alina Morse: Business is booming
Zolli Candy founder and CEO Alina Morse joins 'Mornings with FOX Business' to discuss Hershey's expansion into healthier options and the growing market for zero-sugar and dye-free children's sweets.
Hollywood Prayer Network celebrates 25 years of praying for entertainment professionals
Founder Karen Covell says Christian community gathers together to encourage each other to use God-given talents in a difficult industry.
Health benefits platform Thatch reaches $1B valuation as healthcare costs surge
The five-year-old startup raised $108 million from The General Partnership, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, and Andreessen Horowitz.
Stark Museum of Art to present The Art & Science of Personal Color Talk with Emily Lopez
The Stark Museum of Art is pleased to present The Art & Science of Personal Color Talk, an interactive presentation by guest speaker Emily Lopez. The program will be held at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 24 as a special offering of the Museum's Art After 5 Series. Admission is free of charge. Emily Lopez is an educator, entrepreneur and founder...
Zach Leonsis named president, vice chair of Monumental Sports & Entertainment
Zach Leonsis, son of Monumental Sports & Entertainment founder and CEO Ted Leonsis, has been named president and vice chairman of MSE.
Providence to receive $1.1B from Nike co-founder to build women’s health hospital in Oregon
Providence will receive $1.1 billion from Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny — one of the largest gifts ever pledged to a U.S. healthcare institution — to build Oregon's first women's hospital and expand cardiovascular services. The funds, directed to Portland's Providence St. Vincent Medical Center and Providence Heart Institute, build on the Knights' prior $200 million gift to the heart institute.
Evvy raises $40M as it seeks to further women's health research with vaginal microbiome data
Women’s health company Evvy announced Tuesday a $40 million Series B led by Catalio Capital Management.
Why becoming a LinkedIn lunatic might save your career
In today's economy, 'go direct' isn't just for founders any more. It's for the entire workforce — as long as you don't slop it up.
MDCalc Co-Founder Graham Walker Returns in New Role
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 14, 2026--
Ramstad: Minnesota’s business community needs more mentors like Paul Taylor
Twin Cities Startup Week and other support efforts for startup founders often depend on those willing to give back.
Did an international team of scientists get humanity's first glimpse of dark matter?
A Brown University physicist, one of the project's co-founders and lead researchers, filled us in.
Bryan Johnson and Kate Tolo's very public experiment in love
Bryan Johnson and Kate Tolo are lovers, cofounders, and human experiments trying to engineer a future where people and AI evolve together.
Grants Won’t Fund Your Business; Here’s What Will
Grants can help, but they aren't a funding strategy. Learn how founders can build a financial plan to fund, launch, and sustainably grow their business.
Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale on AI's threat: 'We're on top of it'
Hysteria over the AI threat has reached a boiling point. Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, however, says the "world is going to alright, guys."
Board changes at ENFRA, Pan-American Life, Boys Town Louisiana; Faulk & Winkler founder retires
Take a look at some of the recent promotions and new hires announced at south Louisiana businesses.
Crypto billionaires donate millions to Reform UK, raising concerns about money in politics
Reform UK, the anti-immigration party led by Nigel Farage, received £72 million (around €83.9 million) from two cryptocurrency billionaires this weekend, prompting concerns about money’s influence in British politics. Ben Delo, co-founder of the BitMEX platform, donated £36 million, and crypto investor Christopher Harborne matched that amount. Harborne supports Reform UK’s policies, believing they will […]
Those Jacobsons!
A review of a collection of writings by New Politics founders Phyllis and Julius Jacobson.
Sterling woman turns farm hobbies into business venture
Shannon Jacobs, along with her husband Brent, is the founder and owner of Roots Market, their farmstead business on the couple’s 3.5 acres between Sterling and Morrison.
Crypto Billionaires Give $97 Million to Reform UK, Fueling Concerns About Money in Politics
LONDON (AP) — Reform UK, the anti-immigration party led by Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, received 72 million pounds ($97 million) from two cryptocurrency billionaires this weekend, fueling concerns about money in British politics. After news broke that Ben Delo, a co-founder of the BitMEX ...
Why everyone in tech is talking about LARPing
Techies online keep calling out "LARPers," criticizing founders perceived to be prioritizing clout over doing the actual work.
Yuka's French CEO's routine: Saying 'no,' long lunches, biking to work
Julie Chapon is the CEO and cofounder of Yuka, an app that scores food and cosmetics according to their ingredients. Here's a day in her life.
Major companies to cut back on 2027 health benefits in blow to workers
Disney and Starbucks are among firms cutting health benefits for 2027 as medical costs continue to soar. This trend may mean you'll pay more.
The politics and possibilities of ‘AI could kill us all’
I found myself fielding a lot of questions from folks who don’t usually talk much about AI this week. They were mostly along the lines of “do you think AI is going to kill us all?” or “how worried should I be about this human extinction stuff?” Motivating this wave of existential anxiety was the highly dramatic resignation of now-former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon, who quit his job while publicly sharing his concerns about safety practices at the leading AI companies. More specifically, he declared that almost everyone at OpenAI and Anthropic, the leading AI labs, believes that there’s a decent chance the AI systems they’re producing could “kill us all” by the end of the decade, and the companies aren’t “acting responsibly.” Other AI safety researchers, including those still employed at Anthropic and OpenAI, all confirmed that yes, Coxon is correct, they’re all worried that their company’s products might prove fatal for the entire human race as well. Two more AI employees quit and joined the chorus. Now, the warning shot has been covered everywhere from the Wall Street Journal to Fox News to WIRED to the Guardian. I understand why all this sounds scary, but my response to those who have asked, has generally been: No, you don’t need to worry that AI will kill go rogue and kill us all. But that does not mean we shouldn’t worry, period. Far from it. The companies building AI products are now among the wealthiest and most powerful entities in the world. And they very much are building enormous engines of mass surveillance, extraction, and automation. They can and have allowed their AI systems to carry out felony hacks of other companies, provided the government with autonomously generated kill lists, and sold enterprise technology to firms around the world that is explicitly intended to replace jobs. But “AI” has done these things not because they have all-powerful minds of their own but, ultimately, because people have programmed, calibrated, and directed them to. In other words, it’s not AI we need to worry the most about. It’s the people and corporations working to profit from and gain power by deploying it. The technology is sophisticated, sure, and, especially in cybersecurity contexts, potentially disruptive to plenty of existing systems. But if we want to stop this predatory, profiteering, and extractive form of AI—and it’s worth noting that at this point, most people do—we absolutely can. A quick note/plea: I can only do all of this with the support of readers like you, so if you find value in independent, critical tech journalism and analysis, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. I want to keep as much of this un-paywalled as absolutely possible, and I need your support to do so. Many thanks to all who continue to chip in, it’s very much appreciated. Onward. Subscribe First, some context: AI industry folks like Coxon have been discussing the prospect that AI will destroy humanity for years. Even before the beginning of the AI boom, many working in the industry, from the executive staff to the rank and file researchers, have obsessed over ‘x-risk’, or the possibility that AI will become sentient or semi-sentient and move one way or another to exterminate humanity. This is ostensibly why Elon Musk bankrolled OpenAI in the first place, and is the grounds for his lawsuit alleging OpenAI betrayed its charter by abandoning its nonprofit status to become a commercial enterprise. Many AI engineers and startup founders have calculated their own personal p(doom), or the probability that the tech product they are working on will initiate an actual humanity-extinguishing apocalypse. 10-25% p(doom)s are pretty common. (I wrote about a long weekend I spent among these folks at one of their top conferences here, to give you an idea of their ideas and belief systems.) Sam Altman himself drove the narrative of the imminent rise of a super-powerful AI, or artificial general intelligence, to prominence by declaring that the technology he was building posed an existential risk to humanity. This idea is in other words baked into the DNA of modern AI companies and into the products they engineer. It’s also why the industry is routinely accused, by myself and others, of “doom marketing,” ie, using such proclamations and framings to impart the sheer power of the technology behind your product onto investors, partners, consumers, and the state. Some ambient understanding of this tendency may have helped prevent the press from repeating the claim every time one of the x-risk folks made it over the years, including when they quit their jobs at AI companies while doing so. Yet Coxon’s AI x-risk alarm has broken containment, as they say, and has exposed the idea to the mainstream media once again. This has happened, I think, for a number of reasons. First, when AI CEOs were going around saying AI might kill everyone in 2023, their companies were well-capitalized, but not nearly to the extent they are today. They were more easily dismissed as eccentric geeks of the sort that Silicon Valley is supposed to produce. Now, not only do their products have much greater market saturation, but people are more aware of a) the often unethical ways the executives and companies comport themselves b) the other adverse impacts of AI that have already arrived, and c) the physical cost of building these systems, particularly when it comes to data centers. Finally, toss in the constant stream of headlines in 2026 about AI models going rogue or potentially upending the world’s infrastructure. [ ](https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/with-the-backlash-to-data-centers) [ With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial. ](https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/with-the-backlash-to-data-centers) Brian Merchant · Aug 27 [ Read full story ](https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/with-the-backlash-to-data-centers) As a result, general sentiment was already overwhelmingly skeptical of AI and its overlords, so the table was pretty well set for someone to come along and say ‘just a reminder, the companies that are building the product that promises to take your job and leave a data center in your neighborhood also think that it might exterminate the human race’ and get a strong reaction from the media and the public. The question is: Should we understand this stuff as hype, strategically fanned to feed already swelling valuations? Is it doom marketing? Genuine cause for alarm that the infrastructure that undergirds modern life is facing a novel threat vector? Or reason to be sincerely worried that AI companies are amassing too much power, and that their products are genuinely dangerous? The answer, I’m afraid, is “yes.” Let me try to untangle all of this a bit, because arguments over how to navigate this moment are extremely heated right now, as they are essentially arguments over how to approach the politics of AI at a moment where there may be a unique opening for action. Those sympathetic to AI alignment concerns and x risk arguments—which increasingly includes a faction on the left who want to shut down AI over safety concerns—argue that people who dismiss AI as all hype have their heads in the sand. Meanwhile, critics of the x-risk narrative—which I might note includes a cadre of investors and tech folks on the right, too—argue that it is hype and can be used to further inflate valuations or for pursuing regulatory capture. The challenge is that many feel that dismissing AI as just hype or purely marketing also diminishes the urgency of taking on the AI industry as the novel and threat to labor, civil society, and the public sphere it is; others that by accepting the industry’s own terms, we imbue it with undue power and enable it. But let’s be clear: Declarations that AI is so powerful it might end the world are a kind of marketing, and anyone who says otherwise is just as off base as those who say that’s all that it is. If you don’t think that these sub-trillion dollar companies have higher-ups who noticed that when their founders talked about super-powerful dangerous AI they got spikes in media interest and phone calls from investors, or that those founders didn’t notice that themselves, and lean into certain narratives to advantage their products, then I don’t know what to tell you. Not all marketing is a Pepsi ad campaign with a celebrity spokesperson. Yet confronting the AI industry should certainly be considered an urgent project. Do I share the x-riskers’ fear that out-of-control, super-intelligent AI agents might end the world? I do not. I’ve read a good deal of AI extinction literature over the last couple of years and I have not come across a credible, step-by-step documentation of how exactly AI might move from self-recursively improving AI to killing every single human on the planet. Most of what I’ve read seems predicated on a sort of reverse Ian Malcolmian logic: Eventually, it becomes smart enough and AI, uh, finds a way (to exterminate humanity). Are the AI companies also overstating and dramatizing what their products can do? Yes, pretty much all the time. They’re in a knife fight for market share and are trying to win customers and government contracts before their investors come knocking. And yet. They have concentrated enormous amounts of compute, have extensive data collection and surveillance capacities, have inserted themselves into the state in numerous capacities, including military kill chains, and they are being run by egomaniacal billionaires who are rushing to monopolize an entire new market. The way I think about their most recent frightening-seeming exploits is not as a “swarm of rogue AI agents building a new civilization” or whatever, but as corporations with a hitherto-unimaginable amount of compute at their disposal recklessly experimenting with automation programs, completely unafraid of any repercussions because we have been unwilling or unable to impose any on them. So I think we should welcome any newfound imperative to hold them accountable. I also think that ultimately, the AI critics, Pause AI folks, leftists, doomers, effective altruists, and, honestly, most of the public, want a lot of the same things: legitimate checks and limits on AI companies’ power, actual transparency into what the companies are doing, and for more of AI to be under public control. (Ultimately, a lot of what animates the x-risk fears are rooted in just that: a fear of losing control.) How we move towards all this, exactly, is the question of the day, and while there’s much to be argued over in terms of building a viable political platform to challenge the AI industry’s power, I do want to cast a vote against one particular approach. Not to pick on Chris here, as there are a lot of folks out there proposing stuff like this, and the policy ideas actually stem from AI safety groups. But not only would this be challenging to land politically (I can already hear the ‘China will beat us to AGI’ calls) and all but unworkable in practice, this approach is a) far too limiting, b) fails to address the current harms caused by AI and c) would likely only wind up serving Anthropic and OpenAI; it’s what regulatory capture looks like in action. Full model transparency is the floor for what should be on offer here. If these companies believe their products will kill us, the very least we deserve is to know how. It’s in the public interest. I would also argue we might get a lot of the way to stopping any currently envisioned robot apocalypse simply by forcing AI companies to assume liability, and to submit to the full brunt of the law. If Sam Altman were liable to be charged with a felony for approving the hack on Hugging Face1, if Google was forced to pay defamation fines each time it published a false and injurious AI Overviews, these companies might suddenly find cause to restrain their models’ output, and we might hear less about rogue AI. We would need to introduce new frameworks and available tools for tracking automated lawbreaking, to be sure, but I’d wager that little would frighten the AI companies more than actually being held accountable for what their products enable. To that end, Illinois has passed an AI liability law, which the industry fought tooth and nail, and Florida is considering one. The next steps would be towards moving AI under public control; again, it’s only reasonable, since everyone, not just AI insiders, should get a say over how a technology whose developers say might kill us is developed and deployed. Dismantling the whole industrial project as currently structured should be on the table, too, pending democratic input. But that’s for another post. For now, suffice to say that while I won’t be losing any sleep about an AI-enabled extinction event, Mr. Coxon and co. have given us an opportunity to underscore the urgency of the clear and present damage AI companies are doing, the extreme power they wield and the extent to which they hold themselves unaccountable, and the abundance of political capital there is out there for taking them on. Subscribe 1 Purely speculative! I do not know if he did or not.
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