Here Are 3 Strategies Startup Founders Can Use to Approach High-Impact Disputes
The $7 billion “buy now, pay later” startup Klarna recently faced a public board spat. Here are three strategies to approach conflict within a business.
China’s complicated role in climate change
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. “Well, what about China?” This is a comment I get all the time on the topic of climate change, both in conversations and on whatever social media site is currently en vogue.…
February 2024
As Techstars retools, some former staffers say it lost focus on what made it successful
Well-known accelerator group Techstars announced a slew of changes to its operations this week, including the shuttering of some of its city-based programs.
Criticism from former members of its decisions lit social media channels who argued that the famed startup accelerator has lost focus on the very thing that historically made it so successful.
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Techstars CEO defends changes, says physical presence in a city is not necessary for investment
Earlier this week, accelerator group Techstars announced changes to its operations. But what was planned internally to be an exciting new chapter for the organization ended up being somewhat of a PR nightmare. Techstars found itself facing criticism for some of its decisions and execution after announcing it would shut down its Boulder and Seattle […]
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I Tested the ‘Invest As You Shop’ App to See If It Really Makes Investing Less Intimidating
Grifin is an app that tailors a user’s investments to their spending habits. Now, the app is getting even more personal.
‘This Can’t Be True’: Google Responds to Viral Hoax Claiming the Company Is Shutting Down Gmail
The fake news release started making its way around X on Thursday.
Mike Tyson’s Wisdom: Life, Planning, and Resilience
In the world of sports, wisdom, and life lessons often transcend the boundaries of the field or the ring, offering profound insights into the human condition. One such piece of…
Search startups DuckDuckGo and Neeva had a tough time competing with Google, court filing shows
A court filing in the U.S. Department of Justice’s case against Google over its alleged monopoly in the search market has revealed a few notable tidbits about the state of the search market competition, including the inner workings, revenue, and, in some cases, exit prices of would-be Google competitors, like DuckDuckGo and Neeva, the latter […]
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Sitting on a Huge Stockpile of AI Chips as Companies Compete for Limited Supplies
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told investors on Wednesday that the company was doing its best to share the chips evenly amid unprecedented demand.
Vice Will No Longer Publish Content on Its Website, Lays Off Hundreds of Staffers
Vice Media CEO Bruce Dixon announced the news in an internal memo to employees on Thursday.
‘Embarrassing and wrong’: Google admits it lost control of image-generating AI
Google has apologized (or come very close to apologizing) for another embarrassing AI blunder this week, an image generating model that injected diversity into pictures with a farcical disregard for historical context. While the underlying issue is perfectly understandable, Google blames the model for “becoming” over-sensitive. The model didn’t make itself, guys. The AI system […]
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