Taking the ‘Shotgun Approach’ to Job Applications Could Be a Major Career Mistake. Here’s Why You Should Avoid It.
The term was popularized by a 2012 Reddit thread.
MIT Technology Review is a 2026 ASME finalist in reporting
The American Society of Magazine Editors has named MIT Technology Review as a finalist for a 2026 National Magazine Award in the reporting category. The shortlisted story—“We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard”—is part of the publication’s Power Hungry package on AI’s energy burden. AI is often described…
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Zepotha is huge on TikTok, but it’s no Goncharov
The seminal 1987 horror “Zepotha” is back on TikTok. Reaction videos to the film’s gory forest scenes dominate user feeds. TikTok users are digging through their parents’ wardrobes to recreate the vintage outfits from the movie. Fanart of the characters and convoluted theories about the movie’s ambiguous ending keep going viral. The tag #Zepotha has […]
AI2 drops biggest open dataset yet for training language models
Language models like GPT-4 and Claude are powerful and useful, but the data on which they are trained is a closely guarded secret. The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) aims to reverse this trend with a new, huge text dataset that’s free to use and open to inspection. Dolma, as the dataset is called, is […]
4 Changes New Companies Should Adopt in 2023 to Set Yourself Up for Success
These ideas will allow your emerging organization to stay nimble and take advantage of any new opportunities arriving on your doorstep.
Why Harnessing the Power of Gratitude is Vital to Your Success
Gratitude is so much more than the surface-level expression of a mere “thank you.”
Roblox faces a new class action lawsuit alleging it facilitates child gambling
In a new class action lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California this week, two parents accuse Roblox of illegally facilitating child gambling. While gambling is not allowed on the platform, which hosts millions of virtual games that cater to children and teens, the lawsuit points to third-party gambling sites that invite users to […]
Going to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 is cheaper when you bundle
Anyone with a Costco card knows you save more when you buy in bulk. Now apply that same theory to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, and you can save a bundle when you take your team, your clients or your star startups to San Francisco in September. Heck, take your family and let them see what you […]
Is JPMorgan turning a corner on climate finance?
JPMorgan Chase doesn’t have the best reputation in the climate sector. But there’s some evidence to suggest the bank is turning a corner.
Bluesky buckled following Twitter/X’s announcement about the end of blocks
Twitter, er X, competitor Bluesky buckled following Elon Musk’s announcement that X will no longer support the “block” function in favor of mutes only. Users on Bluesky were seeing issues with slow load times and the occasional error message when trying to load posts. Images and graphics were also slow to load. In addition, the […]
Bad CTOs mean startups have millions of dollars’ worth of cap table dead weight
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. This week, I’ve been looking at the evolution of tech startups. The journey from two or three co-founders to an exit or an acquisition is long and arduous, and it turns out that a lot of VCs aren’t particularly picky […]