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Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminist. I Am Not Neurodivergent. I Am a Software Girl

Marissa Mayer didn’t say AI is Death, destroyer of worlds or even AI needs ethical guardrails.Instead, she said it’s the sun—life-giving, bright, shiny, endlessly giving. Thus, the former Google engineer and CEO...

Elie Hassenfeld Q&A: ‘$5,000 to Save a Life Is a Bargain’

When the board of OpenAI staged a bum mutiny last November, throwing out the company’s leadership only to have the bosses return while board members were pressured to resign, something seemed rotten...

The World’s Most Important Industry Has a New Captain—and She’s Piloting It Into the 21st Century

Marina Hadjipateras, the dashing American venture capitalist, has only one word of derision. She speaks it softly and rarely. Conservative. A family can be conservative. An investment, a choice. The way she...

Pete Buttigieg Loves God, Beer, and His Electric Mustang

The curious mind of Pete Buttigieg holds much of its functionality in reserve. Even as he discusses railroads and airlines, down to the pointillist data that is his current stock-in-trade, the US...

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