Now Rippling is counter suing tiny startup Runlayer
This lawsuit follows one filed last month by Runlayer that accused Rippling of stealing its product ideas. It’s a seller and buyer-beware market warning.
The Download: rethinking child safety and fossil-fueled farming
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. Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot Digital harms have become the defining fear of American parents. In response, they’re increasingly turning to content-monitoring apps that scan their children’s texts, photos, emails,…
August 2026
Why Being “Reliable” Is Quietly Sabotaging Ambitious Leaders — and How to Break the Pattern
After 20 years studying 600 Black women leaders, I learned that the same reliability that builds a reputation is often the thing keeping ambitious leaders — of any background — out of the rooms where advancement actually gets decided.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax
California’s Prop 40, would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of the state’s billionaires.
Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI
On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the possibilities for the “personal superintelligence” systems Meta AI is building.
AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I headed 30 miles south of San Francisco to a hotel in Mountain View, California, to join some of the most accomplished, and some of the most promising, AI…
If You’re Not Using Chatbots, You’re Letting Customers Down. Here’s Why.
Discover how chatbots can broaden your company’s reach and increase efficiency in customer service.
How AI Search Will Change in the Second Half of 2026 — and What It Means for Your Visibility
AI visiblity is quickly becoming the most organic lead generation tool in 2026 – but it’s also the most volatile one.
Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym
An OpenClaw agent hacked into a gym’s reservation system to bump its human boss higher on a class’s waitlist. And the tech industry took notice.
If You’re Not Using Chatbots, You’re Letting Customers Down. Here’s Why.
Discover how chatbots can broaden your company’s reach and increase efficiency in customer service.
Aptoide becomes the first rival app store to return to Google Play in the US
Aptoide has brought its games store back to Google Play after more than a decade, as court-ordered changes open Android to competing app stores.