While data centers were taking it on the chin in Tuesday’s midterm elections, the people building them were playing pickleball at a conference in Virginia. And they weren’t exactly reacting constructively to the news. “Suddenly we have protesters and people saying four-letter words about us,” Jeff Wabik, the chief technology officer at DC BLOX, a
So you’ve heard of the trend quiet quitting, and its sister, loud quitting—but now workers are doing the complete opposite: “loud working.” Instead of doing the bare minimum to get by or turning their anger on their employers, they’re pouring all their energy into making their work more visible. Think of the colleague who posts
AI agents can, in theory, book your vacation for you, but that doesn’t mean it’s happening much yet. Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he’s not worried about AI agents like Meta’s Muse or Instinct AI taking traffic, citing a low number of agent bookings so far. “We’re not seeing a lot of traffic, and even
Despite its fragmented markets and myriad of cultures and spoken languages, Asia is becoming an increasingly popular home for budding tech and AI entrepreneurs, according to Magnus Grimeland, the founder and CEO of venture capital firm Antler. “Going to the U.S. to build companies is still very popular and we see that happening at scale,”
Asia’s technology stocks took another beating on Friday as a brutal sell-off in the AI trade swept across the region. Some of the chipmakers and technology companies that powered this year’s stock-market rally were among the hardest hit. South Korea’s benchmark Kospi index plunged 9% in early trading, triggering a trading halt. Japan’s Nikkei 225
The morning after we wrote in Fortune about a controversial Chancery Court decision involving Cloudflare, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster moved with uncommon speed to certify an interlocutory appeal of his ruling to the Delaware Supreme Court. Corporate boards might read that as a sign the system is correcting itself. They shouldn’t, at least not
