Dina Powell McCormick, a prominent banking executive and former Republican official, and Stripe CEO Patrick Collison are joining Meta's board, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: It's part of a broader effort by Meta to expand its board to include more global business experts. The appointments also come as the company looks to curry favor with the Trump administration.
Microsoft inked a multimillion-ton CO2 deal with CO280, a startup that says it has cracked the code to scaling large-scale removal tethered to pulp and paper mills.
Why it matters: CO280's offtake deals with Microsoft and other buyers could advance integration of carbon removal into huge, incumbent industrial sectors.
AI is leaping over the borders of tech and business and making waves across culture, from art and poetry to medicine and parenting, as this week's TED conference in Vancouver, B.C., highlighted.
Why it matters: The technology is already reshaping our lives, even as critics warn that the underlying systems remain dangerously unreliable.
