A 26,000-Pound Truck Full of Doritos Is Heading to Walmart. Nobody Is Behind the Wheel.
PepsiCo’s 41 autonomous trucks have hit a 99% on-time delivery rate with zero accidents. The Teamsters union is not happy about it.
Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators. Prominent tech leaders such as Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Sam Altman push for regulation of these seemingly “superhuman” systems, while a separate faction, led by policy organizations…
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She Sold Her Car and Started a Business With Just $5,000. Now Her Agency Is Celebrating 30 Years of Turning Stories Into Movements.
Heidi Krupp, founder and CEO of Krupp Agency, shares lessons she’s learned over 30 years of creating storytelling-driven PR.
After Two Years of Delays, Apple Finally Unveiled Its Completely Rebuilt Siri AI. Here’s What It Can Do.
Built partly on Google’s Gemini technology, the long-anticipated new Siri takes direct aim at ChatGPT and Claude.
Apple’s App Store rolls out personalized recommendations
Apple will now recommend apps based on your downloads and behavior.
Sandstone raises $30M to bring AI to in-house legal teams
Sandstone’s Series A was led by Lightspeed Partners, with participation from Sequoia.
7 Costly Financial Mistakes That Can Quietly Derail a Growing Startup
From weak bookkeeping and tax missteps to contractor errors and missed incentives, these seven financial mistakes can quietly drain cash, increase risk and slow startup growth before founders even notice.
Don’t Limit Your Product to 1 Market — Build With Expansion in Mind. Here’s How I Did It.
Most companies build products for the market in front of them. The companies that last build platforms that can expand far beyond it.
Someone Stole 1,000 Racks of Shake Shack’s Baby Back Ribs. It Almost Killed Their Hottest New Sandwich.
A truckload of ribs vanished in Mexico last month, nearly killing Shake Shack’s newest menu item. The CEO says the chain almost ran out.
Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week
Lovable says it has now surpassed $500 million in annualized run-rate revenue and its users are building businesses and replacing internal software.
The Download: whole-body rejuvenation drugs and five things to know about 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. David Sinclair plans to test whole-body rejuvenation drugs in the XPrize competition The outspoken longevity scientist David Sinclair has predicted that, one day, you’ll go to the doctor and get a…