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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 leaders who unlock real innovation stop thinking like employees protecting their position and start thinking like founders — and it comes down to three shifts anyone can make.
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The tiredness isn’t from the workload — it’s from an invisible “leadership tax” that most Black women in senior roles are paying every day, and the ones who sustain success learn how to stop paying it.
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SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth
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Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
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Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.
Meet Wrinkles, an AI app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you
Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.
Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress
The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.