Companies across sectors are confronting an increasingly unavoidable narrative: AI can replicate your business. Why it matters: Narrative volatility is a new risk category that communications teams must prepare for in the age of AI . - All it takes is one widely read doomsday essay, research paper or X thread to knock billions off a company's market cap. Case in point: A viral 7,000-word memo that warned of a hypothetical AI future — in which companies rush to replace human workers with AI tools that themselves are rapidly commoditized — sent markets tumbling. - Meanwhile, essays from AI founders and researchers are shaping investor psychology, and product rollouts from AI giants like Anthropic are being treated as existential…
Data: AP-NORC; Chart: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Most U.S. adults are concerned about the threat Iran poses to the U.S., but a majority say they don't trust President Trump 's handling of foreign affairs, according to a new AP-NORC poll . Why it matters: Thursday's nuclear talks between the Trump administration and Iran could be the last chance for a diplomatic solution before the president opts for military action. - The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Axios on the poll's findings. By the numbers: 80% of adults express at least a moderate degree of concern that Iran's nuclear program poses a direct threat to the U.S. Of those, 48% are very or extremely concerned. - Meanwhile, 56% do not trust Trump to…
Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.
New York Times journalist David Sanger discusses how we got here, the state of Iran's nuclear weapons program, the likelihood of U.S. military force against Iran and if Trump's goal is regime change.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates reportedly apologized to his staff at the Gates Foundation for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and admitting to having had affairs with two women back when he was still married. #BillGates #Epstein #MelindaFrenchGates About Rising: Rising is a weekday morning show with bipartisan hosts that breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers inside the halls of Washington power like never before. The show leans into the day's political cycle with cutting edge analysis from DC insiders who can predict what is going to happen. It also sets the day's political agenda by breaking exclusive news with a team of scoop-driven reporters and demanding answers during interviews with the country's most important political…
Memorial services for Rev. Jesse Jackson began on Thursday in Chicago, where the late civil rights icon lay in repose at the headquarters of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
