‘Need to Know Information’: Baggage Handler Shares Hack For Ensuring Checked Luggage Doesn’t Get Lost
The airport employee is going viral for his little known tip about the stickers on your baggage.
OpenAI’s “compromise” with the Pentagon is what Anthropic feared
On February 28, OpenAI announced it had reached a deal that will allow the US military to use its technologies in classified settings. CEO Sam Altman said the negotiations, which the company began pursuing only after the Pentagon’s public reprimand of Anthropic, were “definitely rushed.” In its announcements, OpenAI took great pains to say that…
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Astra’s Apollo Fusion acquisition followed by delays and desertion
Two years ago, Astra hailed its acquisition of satellite propulsion startup Apollo Fusion as a strategic move that would round out its launch business and bring expert engineers into the fold. But under Astra leadership, Apollo Fusion quickly disintegrated, with the majority of the original team resigning, leaving few people to staff the one part […]
‘Need to Know Information’: Baggage Handler Shares Hack For Ensuring Checked Luggage Doesn’t Get Lost
The airport employee is going viral for his little known tip about the stickers on your baggage.
Uber Eats is reportedly developing an AI chatbot that will offer recommendations, speed up ordering
Uber Eats is developing an AI-powered chatbot that will offer recommendations to users and offer them a quicker way to place orders, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The report says developer Steve Moser discovered details about the chatbot inside of code hidden within the Uber Eats app. The chatbot will ask users about […]
Survey finds relatively few Americans actually use (or fear) ChatGPT
From its prominence in the tech world, you might think that everyone on the planet is using ChatGPT or some other AI tool for everything from automating their job to planning their garden. But recent Pew polling suggests the language model isn’t quite as popular or threatening as some would have you think. Ongoing polling […]
Connections is The New York Times’ most played game after Wordle
The gamers behind the Gray Lady have a new game to add into our morning rotations: Connections, which invites the player to categorize 16 words or phrases into four distinct groups of four. The daily puzzle game debuted in beta on June 12, and according to the New York Times, it’s now the paper’s second […]
Netflix Is Shuttering a Beloved, Old-School Service — And Giving Customers Something for Free
The company has been mailing DVDs to customers for 25 years. But not anymore.
Smucker’s Employees Actually Want to Go Into the Office — Here’s Why The Company’s Return-to-Office Policy Works
Unlike other companies that have mandated strict in-person attendance, Smucker’s strategy allows its 1,300 corporate workers to be on site primarily during 22 designated “core” weeks each year.
Amazon increases its free shipping minimum to $35 for non-Prime members in some regions
Amazon is increasing its free shipping minimum to $35 for customers who don’t have a Prime membership in some regions, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. Up until now, the free shipping minimum was $25. Amazon says it’s testing the new free shipping threshold randomly by zip code-grouped regions and that everyone in the […]
Friend.tech gets unfriended: Daily transactions drop 95% as hyped decentralized social app loses steam
It may be time to put to rest yet another effort to build a social network on a blockchain: The number of transactions on decentralized social network friend.tech has cratered after less than 20 days since its launch.