The Entrepreneur Who Bet His Company on a Fight With Apple

The Entrepreneur Who Bet His Company on a Fight With Apple

Masimo Chief Executive Joe Kiani bet the future of the company he spent three decades building in an expensive legal battle with the world’s most valuable company. So far, he is winning, but it isn’t over. His company, which pioneered a better method for measuring blood-oxygen levels, has spent around $100 million fighting Apple in…

My Secret to Running in the Winter Isn’t Cheap—but It Keeps Me Motivated

My Secret to Running in the Winter Isn’t Cheap—but It Keeps Me Motivated

RUNNING IN temperate seasons like spring and fall is easy. The discipline gets harder in the summer, when just being outside causes sticky sweat to fill my body’s nooks and crannies, but it’s not impossible. You just have to force yourself out of bed earlier. Come December and into January, however, I find jogging through…

Elon Musk and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni Form a Trans-Atlantic Bond

Elon Musk and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni Form a Trans-Atlantic Bond

ROME—Elon Musk and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have formed one of 2023’s more unlikely trans-Atlantic alliances. Behind their budding friendship lie common interests in political issues such as immigration and demographics, as well as in tech-sector regulation and the risks associated with artificial intelligence. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved….

Worried about AI? How California lawmakers plan to tackle the technology’s risks in 2024

Worried about AI? How California lawmakers plan to tackle the technology’s risks in 2024

Jodi Long was caught off guard by the cage filled with cameras meant to capture images of her face and body. “I was a little freaked out because, before I walked in there, I said I don’t remember this being in my contract,” the actor said. The filmmakers needed her digital scan, Long was told,…

Expert: AI ‘hurts ability to keep democracy alive’

Expert: AI ‘hurts ability to keep democracy alive’

Technology professor Gina Neff explained the New York Times’s allegations against Microsoft and Open AI to BBC News. Neff, who serves as the executive director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge, set up the stakes of this lawsuit as an important litmus case for generative artificial intelligence and…