This Restaurant Tech Cost Him a Client — Then Changed Everything for His Business
Tunji Junard was skeptical of a new restaurant tech, but before long, he was convinced it could be a game-changer for his restaurant brand, Steam Boys.
How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom
This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Chatbots took many schools by surprise upon their release a few years ago. Suddenly, students carried an app in their phones that could magically answer almost any…
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Why First-Party Data and AI Are Crushing Outdated Ad Targeting
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DOGE staffer with access to Americans’ personal data leaked private xAI API key
The researcher who found the exposed key said it “raises questions” about how DOGE handles sensitive data.
China’s Geely is officially bringing its luxury EV startup Zeekr private
China’s Geely Auto is officially taking its luxury EV subsidiary Zeekr private, just over a year after the company debuted on the New York Stock Exchange.
ParadeDB takes on Elasticsearch as interest in Postgres explodes amid AI boom
ParadeDB built a Postgres extension that facilitates full-text search and analytics on Postgres without the need to transfer data.
Busy Entrepreneurs Can Now Create Books With This AI Tool
This AI-powered tool helps entrepreneurs finally write the book they’ve been dreaming of.
xAI says it has fixed Grok 4’s problematic responses
xAI says it fixed the issue with Grok 4 where the model said its surname was “mechahitler.”
Google inks $3B deal to buy hydropower from Brookfield
Google will pay more than $3 billion to source carbon-free hydropower from Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners’ plants in Pennsylvania.
Auriga Space raises $6M to shoot rockets off an electromagnetic launch track
Auriga Space wants to reimagine launch by using electromagnetic forces.
Joby Aviation doubles pilot eVTOL facility capacity as it races toward air taxi launch
Joby Aviation has doubled the size and production capacity of its pilot manufacturing facility in Marina, California as it races to commercialize electric air taxis by early next year.