How a Single PowerPoint Raised $300 Million for This Founder
Brandtech Group CEO David Jones explains what led him to leave his executive comfort zone to build an AI-powered tech empire from scratch.
The hardest question to answer about AI-fueled delusions
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I was originally going to write this week’s newsletter about AI and Iran, particularly the news we broke last Tuesday that the Pentagon is making plans for AI companies to train on…
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You Don’t Need Thousands to Turn Your Business Idea Into Reality — Here’s How I Did It on a College-Kid Budget
From creating the packaging designs online by myself to learning how to take professional product photos, I found ways to launch a company on a low budget. Here’s how you can do it, too.
Mega Millions Tickets Will Soon Cost More Than Double the Current Price, With More Changes on the Way. Here’s What We Know.
A “new and improved game” is coming in April 2025.
Employees are Turning the Tables — How Entrepreneurs Should Change Their Annual Employee Reviews
Employees are critical to your business. The way you measure and reward them year after year can help you drive value.
Google Is Losing Ground to Unexpected Rivals in Search Ad Revenue and Name Popularity, According to New Estimates
Gen Z is barely using Google as a verb anymore.
How This CEO Breathed Life Into a 75-Year-Old California Ice Cream Brand Without Losing Its Nostalgic Identity
McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams CEO Michael Palmer talks about revitalizing the brand for a new era and rethinking social media strategies.
How Setting Clear Financial Goals Can Transform Your Business and Personal Success
Dive in to refresh your core financial competencies — from cash flow management to understanding key financial statements.
Adobe wants to make it easier for artists to blacklist their work from AI scraping
Adobe has announced a new tool to help creators watermark their artwork and opt out of having it used to train generative AI models. The web app, called Adobe Content Authenticity, allows artists to signal that they do not consent for their work to be used by AI models, which are generally trained on vast…
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The Download: Geoffrey Hinton’s Nobel Prize, and multimodal AI
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. Geoffrey Hinton, AI pioneer and figurehead of doomerism, wins Nobel Prize Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist whose pioneering work on deep learning in the 1980s and 90s underpins all of the most powerful…