June 17, 2025

Own, a new social media app, aims to tokenize the creator economy

Own is the latest alternative to TikTok to emerge in the market, featuring blockchain technology and a token economy.

August 2023

Google’s Duet AI can now write your emails for you

August 30, 2023
Gmail’s new AI companion will be able to help you draft and customize your emails, Google announced as part of this week’s news from its Google Cloud Next ’23 event. The company had shared a number of updates about its AI-powered companion, Duet AI, which is becoming generally available for Workspace users, aiding them with […]

Starz is lowering the price of its annual subscription

August 30, 2023
Starz is lowering its annual subscription price from $74.99 to $69.99, the company confirmed to TechCrunch in an email. Existing STARZ subscribers will see the price adjustment in their next billing cycle. The news was first reported by Cord Cutters. “As one of the few streaming networks that is profitable, we are always looking for […]

The difference between good and great founders

August 30, 2023
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, in which we sit down with a guest, talk about their work and unpack the rest. This week, Alex spoke to […]

Here’s what we know about hurricanes and climate change

August 30, 2023
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more here. It’s now possible to link climate change to all kinds of extreme weather, from droughts to flooding to wildfires.  Hurricanes are no exception—scientists have found that warming temperatures are causing…

Context.ai wants to merge product analytics sensibilities with LLMs

August 30, 2023
Since the release of ChatGPT at the end of last year, we’ve seen companies developing generative AI tooling to help customers interact with their products and services in a more natural way. Yet in many cases, these vendors have no idea how well the underlying large language models are performing, or how good the answers […]

X to allow paid political ads, lifting Twitter’s earlier ban

August 30, 2023
X this week confirmed it’s lifting its ban on paid political ads — a move it committed to earlier this year, shortly after Elon Musk took over the social network previously known as Twitter. The company had originally banned such ads back in 2019 under then-CEO Jack Dorsey’s management, claiming at the time that “political […]

Samsung launches a meal planning and recipe discovery platform called Samsung Food

August 30, 2023
Samsung has launched a meal planning and suggestion platform called Samsung Food in over 104 countries. The platform is based on Whisk, which the Samsung Next division acquired in 2019. The company said that the platform has more than 160,000 recipes in eight languages including English, Spanish, Korean, German, French, and Italian. Samsung noted that […]

3 Top Rated China Stocks Investors Are After This Week

August 30, 2023
Despite several obstacles, the Chinese economy has demonstrated remarkable resilience over the past several years. Given the consistent measures undertaken by the nation to keep its economy afloat this year,…