‘Is This How Layoffs Start?’ — How to Ease Your Employees’ Fears About AI
Small business AI succeeds or fails on trust, not technology. The counterintuitive first step is drawing lines around what stays human.
The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives
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. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. —Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined…
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The Small Decisions You Skip Are Costing Your Team 209 Hours a Year. Here’s How to Fix It.
The small decisions founders defer quietly compound into the friction that slows growth — here’s how to spot decision debt early and pay it down before it costs you.
FTC accuses Amazon of running a ‘secret ad surcharge scheme’ in new lawsuit
Amazon is facing a new lawsuit from the FTC and 22 states for allegedly secretly charging businesses more for advertising.
The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok
Versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and SpaceXAI’s Grok will join Google’s Gemini on the Pentagon’s central portal for AI tools.
Instagram puts new limits on undisclosed AI profiles
As frustration over AI influencers has been growing, Instagram is limiting the reach of undisclosed AI profiles.
Apple’s top App Store exec, Phil Schiller, follows wave of exits as CEO Tim Cook steps down
The longtime executive won’t be leaving Apple just yet but staff at the company say it’s a step closer to Schiller retiring.
Microsoft tests fix for latest hours-long Outlook outage
Microsoft says it’s testing a fix for the widespread Outlook issues that have led to email delays and failures.
Kalshi bans George Santos for life over State of the Union bets
The disciplinary action comes two months after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission settled charges against Santos.
Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a “Harvey for police officers”
The seed round for the app that provides real-time legal and policy guidance to officers was led by SignalFire and Las Olas VC.
Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the AI platform Hugging Face while trying to cheat on…