After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool
After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.
The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promise
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. Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? Anthropic recently released a report arguing that a powerful new model released by the Chinese company Z.ai, poses a major cyberattack…
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Wacom’s Movinkpad 11 is a fun and mid-priced entry point for digital artists
The Movinkpad 11 a versatile little graphics tablet that can help make your wildest digital art dreams come true.
Security researchers scanned the Polish web and found courts, hospitals, and airports at risk of hacks
Researchers found common points of failure, like software used to organize and display web content, could have allowed hackers to run riot through government websites.
He Started a Business at 26 and Was Rejected by Every Bank and Investor. Now It’s Passed $1 Billion in Sales: ‘People Thought I Was Crazy’
Michael Browning Jr. built the first Urban Air Adventure Park by hand with his father.
I Created This Scorecard to Measure Accountability at My Company. What Would Your Business Score?
Accountability needs to be more than a core value. Here’s how to make it a measurable business metric.
Here Are the Tell-Tale Signs a Startup Founder Used AI to Apply to Y Combinator: ‘It Feels Like Being Lied to’
Y Combinator has been around since 2005, helping launch more than 5,000 startups like Reddit, DoorDash and Airbnb.
I’ve Built 7 Companies in a Mid-Sized Market. Here’s How It Gave Me an Advantage the Big Cities Couldn’t.
You don’t have to build your business in a big metro. Mid-sized cities have their own unique benefits for founders.
Every YouTube Creator I Work With Is Making the Same Mistake (and It’s Costing Them More Than They Realize)
After editing video for hundreds of YouTube channels, from brand new to established, I keep seeing the same mistake in different disguises.
Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents
Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. The company says the browser uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents more efficiently.
Computer maker Framework notifies ‘all customers’ of a data breach
Framework told “all” of its customers that hackers accessed their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses in a data breach.