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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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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OpenAI and Anthropic spent more on lobbying in 2025 than ever. My latest for @forbes.com is a breakdown of what the big #AI model makers lobbied on last year and why:
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NEW: An ex-Top Tesla engineer raises $140 million to rewire the electric grid with solid-state transformers www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
#infrastructure #renewableenergy
NEW for @forbes.com: Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna’s plan to create a gene editing ecosystem to solve major problems in medicine, agriculture and climate.
“I don’t want it to be a curio, a topic of academic interest,” she says.
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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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Sam Altman went deep with us for the latest cover of Forbes on OpenAI's new device, his feud with Elon, and how he's thinking about his legacy now that he has a son, and another baby on the way.
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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🚨 SCOOP 🚨 Microsoft gives encryption keys to the FBI to unlock data on seized computers.
Comes from a fraud case in Guam.
But Microsoft tells me it gets around 20 requests for BitLocker keys a year.
How many keys has it given to feds over the years?
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PyTorch Lightning's developer merges with "neocloud" Voltage Park to create an “AI cloud” with a $2.5B valuation, managing 35,000+ Nvidia GPUs across six data centers www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
🚨 NEW 🚨 During three months in summer last year, over 30,000 Apple devices, worth some $35 million, were shipped to a warehouse in a small industrial park.
DHS says it's part of a sprawling Chinese fraud involving gift cards obtained in sextortion and romance scams.
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A ‘holy grail’ pill for sleep apnea could be on the market next year.
My latest @forbes.com feature profiles Apnimed, whose nightly pill could help some of the est 80M people in the U.S. w/ the breathing disorder, the majority of whom are undiagnosed and untreated.
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Checkr, which got its start running criminal record checks on Uber drivers and gig workers, has seen its revenues jump 14% to $800 million as companies try to spot a flood of AI-generated CVs and faked financial documents.
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New: OpenAI wanted GPT-5 to be less warm and agreeable than its predecessor GPT-4o, but a group of users says the change was disruptive, particularly for people with autism, ADHD and special needs. www.forbes.com/sites/richar...
After her most recent grant announcement on Tuesday, MacKenzie Scott is now America's third-most-generous philanthropist by dollar amount, and second by percentage of wealth. More insights and context in my latest for @forbes.com:
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🚨 NEW 🚨 Brinc, founded by 25-year-old Blake Resnick, is trying to get DJIs out of American cops drone fleets.
Come December 23, the Chinese giant may not be able to put new devices in the hands of the police.
Some cops are really not happy about it.
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This year’s @forbes.com 30 Under 30 is out. Check out the Healthcare list here. With @thealexknapp.bsky.social and Genevieve Bookwalter
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The new edition of Forbes magazine just dropped - the cover story is on two 30-year-old entrepreneurs from Poland, who sick of bad movie dubbing, built their own voice AI model. Today, it's worth $6.6 billion, they are new billionaires & are beating Silicon Valley's tech giants
Metaverse startup Napster earlier this year claimed to have raised a massive $3 billion round from one, unnamed investor, valuing it at $12 billion. Now it claims the money never landed and its working with law enforcement as a “victim of misconduct”.
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🚨NEW🚨 A US AI founder and NVIDIA partner got caught trying to ship the most powerful of the chip maker's processors to China, the DOJ says.
He just got offered a job at another NVIDIA partner as CTO. The offer has been rescinded.
H/T @courtwatch.bsky.social
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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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Have you been using #Sora? Some back-of-napkin math suggests OpenAI is spending more than a quarter of what it’s making to power its AI slop factory. There are also potential silver linings (more training data + future tax savings). My latest for @forbes.com:
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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: Elon Musk's $1 trillion plan: The case for magical thinking #Tesla www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
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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New from me: TikTok ignored repeated questions about whether and how they share data with ICE. Also, earlier this year, they quietly updated their policies about what happens when law enforcement asks for your data. 1/
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NEW: Rivian's had a tough few years in the volatile, but CEO RJ Scaringe is betting its new R2 electric SUV will mark a big growth phase.
“I'm very, very biased, but I think R2 is going to drive a step-change in overall EV adoption” #electricvehicles #Rivian www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
Older adults across the country are turning to AI companions to help deal with loneliness. We visited a senior care facility in the Bronx and spoke with residents about their experience speaking to AI bots. With @richardnieva.bsky.social.
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My latest @forbes.com daily cover profiles startup Leo Cancer Care, which is transforming cancer radiation treatment with a simple idea: having patients sit up instead of lying down. Now hospitals are buying dozens of its chairs.
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