To combat her loneliness, An Xu, a 15-year-old middle schooler in Shanghai, had recently been relying for emotional support on her text and voice conversations with an AI companion on Doubao,...

Utter kitchen chaos unfolded when Brynn Putnam and I got together a week or so ago and she suggested a round of “Chop, Chop,” a collaborative restaurant simulation game created by her startup,...

After Bill Papariella, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.–based entrepreneur, sold his private jet charter business for nearly $1 billion in 2022, he took it easy for a couple years. But as the number of...

When the world’s most powerful people jet off to the annual summit hosted by Allen & Co. in Sun Valley, Idaho, to brainstorm and talk deals, they adopt a sartorial style we might call mogul...

Among the many private group chats circulating through Silicon Valley these days, one of the more unusual ones is a thread called “To Make an Omelette.” The chat, which was started last year,...