Why Letting Go of the Coveted ‘CEO’ Role is the Best Move for Leaders
The true measure of a founder’s success isn’t their title — it’s the enduring impact of the company they’ve created.
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.…
August 2024
Popmenu Started With a Simple Offering for Restaurants — Now It’s Using AI to Help Them Flourish
Popmenu co-founders Brendan Sweeney and Tony Roy discuss the challenges restaurants face and how AI tools can help them grow bigger than ever before.
She Started a Multimillion-Dollar Brand for Young People Out of Her College Dorm Room — Here’s What Gen Z Actually Wants, According to Her
Amanda Zuckerman, co-founder and chief brand officer of Dormify, was just 18 when she saw a major gap in the market.
The Download: boosting prosperity with AI, and fighting for a better future
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How to fine-tune AI for prosperity Predictions abound on how the growing list of generative AI models will transform the way we work and organize our lives, providing instant advice on everything from…
3 Key Strategies to Ground Yourself When You Start Questioning Your ‘Why’
Change is certain. But if your “why” changes, you can feel off balance. Here are three strategies to help you get grounded.
Fighting for a future beyond the climate crisis
When it comes to climate breakdown and the extinction crisis, the question I get most often is: How can we have hope? People ask me this in a range of contexts—in Q&A sessions, in emails, and on podcasts and radio shows, whether I’m doing outreach for my novels, like A Children’s Bible or Dinosaurs, or…
How to fine-tune AI for prosperity
When Chad Syverson loads the US Bureau of Labor Statistics website these days looking for the latest data on productivity, he does so with a sense of optimism that he hasn’t felt in ages. The numbers for the last year or so have been generally strong for various financial and business reasons, rebounding from the…
Why you’re about to see a lot more drones in the sky
This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get it in your inbox first, sign up here. If you follow drone news closely—and you’re forgiven if you don’t—you may have noticed over the last few months that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been quite busy. For decades, the agency had been…
How to Start a Multi-Million Dollar Company, According to an IBM Engineer Turned Founder
Leah Solivan took her company from idea to Ikea acquisition.
UK Tech Billionaire Mike Lynch Missing After Yacht Sinks Off Italian Coast
One person has died and six people are missing, including four Americans, after the Bayesian superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily.