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Transforming CX with embedded real-time analytics

September 4, 2025

During Black Friday in 2024, Stripe processed more than $31 billion in transactions, with processing rates peaking at 137,000 transactions per minute, the highest in the company’s history. The financial-services firm had to analyze every transaction in real time to prevent nearly 21 million fraud attempts that could have siphoned more than $910 million from its…

The Most Dangerous Word in Entrepreneurship is “Try”

September 4, 2025

If you’re struggling to get things done or meet your goals, you need to ask yourself: Are you trying, or doing?

DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced models to it subscription plan

September 4, 2025

With DuckDuckGo’s $9.99 per month plan, users will be able to access newer models, including OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta’s Llama Maverick.

Synthesia’s AI clones are more expressive than ever. Soon they’ll be able to talk back.

September 4, 2025

Earlier this summer, I walked through the glassy lobby of a fancy office in London, into an elevator, and then along a corridor into a clean, carpeted room. Natural light flooded in through its windows, and a large pair of umbrella-like lighting rigs made the room even brighter. I tried not to squint as I…

How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy

September 4, 2025

On a spring day in 1954, Bell Labs researchers showed off the first practical solar panels at a press conference in Murray Hill, New Jersey, using sunlight to spin a toy Ferris wheel before a stunned crowd. The solar future looked bright. But in the race to commercialize the technology it invented, the US would…

Madrid’s Orbital Paradigm aims to prove a cheaper path to orbital reentry

September 4, 2025

Orbital Paradigm is moving fast and cheap to industrialize low Earth orbit.

U.S. Billionaires Are Collectively Worth About $5.7 Trillion. Here’s How They Made Their Fortunes — And Surprisingly Most Are Not in Tech.

September 3, 2025

From banking to real estate, U.S. billionaires amassed their wealth in different ways.

American Parents Are Loaning Their Kids Money — Sometimes With Serious Strings Attached: ‘Even Generosity Comes With Boundaries’

September 3, 2025

Many young adults depend on financial assistance from family to make ends meet.

Mistral, the French AI giant, is reportedly on the cusp of securing a $14 billion valuation

September 3, 2025

The 2-year-old OpenAI rival, founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, develops open-source language models and Le Chat, its AI chatbot built for European audiences.

Scale AI is suing a former employee and rival Mercor, alleging they tried to steal its biggest customers

September 3, 2025

Scale is clearly concerned enough about the threat of Mercor, and the poaching of one of its employees, to pursue legal action

The Download: Big Tech’s carbon removals plans, and the next wave of nuclear reactors

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Transforming CX with embedded real-time analytics

The Most Dangerous Word in Entrepreneurship is “Try”

DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced models to it subscription plan

Synthesia’s AI clones are more expressive than ever. Soon they’ll be able to talk back.

How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy

Madrid’s Orbital Paradigm aims to prove a cheaper path to orbital reentry

U.S. Billionaires Are Collectively Worth About $5.7 Trillion. Here’s How They Made Their Fortunes — And Surprisingly Most Are Not in Tech.

American Parents Are Loaning Their Kids Money — Sometimes With Serious Strings Attached: ‘Even Generosity Comes With Boundaries’

Mistral, the French AI giant, is reportedly on the cusp of securing a $14 billion valuation

Scale AI is suing a former employee and rival Mercor, alleging they tried to steal its biggest customers

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