A flight recorder for wayward AI systems. The space industry’s record investments. AI spending warnings. All that and more in this week’s Prototype.
Data center developers and neoclouds raised $37 billion in U.S. junk bonds this year. As yields hit double digits, debt tied to riskier AI firms is tumbling.
CEO Dave Ricks built Eli Lilly into the first $1 trillion pharma company with its blockbuster weight-loss and diabetes drugs. But with more than 60% of revenue coming from them, the drug giant faces the risks of its own success.
OpenAI and Anthropic are spending hundreds of billions to build AI. Now an AI-powered credit firm is using the technology to judge their finances.
Palo Alto-based Sabi is betting its cap, outfitted with 100,000 sensors, will enable people to talk to their AI agents just by thinking.
Stronger models and cheaper tools are helping a new generation of bots handle travel bookings, grocery orders, party plans and even recover forgotten cash.
Forbes’ Agentic 20 spotlights AI agents moving beyond chatbots into real-world work, from funeral homes to shrimp farms.
Govra’s AI agents could make business tax audits faster—and more common. Its pitch: help states collect what companies already owe without raising taxes on everyone else.
Last year, TikTok’s executives quietly defanged its advertising rules, opening the floodgates to fraudsters that target American users with fake sales of products that never arrive. Sources told Forbes the change was understood internally as a way to m…
A new breed of startups is emerging to help businesses use AI smarter and cheaper, shifting towards open Chinese models and giving the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic a run for their billions.