The Altman-Musk Feud Is Back: Musk Says Altman ‘Takes Scamming to a Whole New Level,’ Altman Mocks His SpaceX IPO
The tech moguls took to X to rip each other apart again, this time over Apple’s lawsuit and Musk’s SpaceX IPO.
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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I’m de-influencing you from buying the RingConn 3 (even though it’s pretty)
The RingConn 3 actually looks like real jewelry, not a wearable — but its fitness tracking and headache detection features are disappointing.
Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius
Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius’s compute. Reflection was founded in 2024 and is developing open source AI technology.
The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open models?
The 5 Most Frequent YouTube SEO Mistakes That Seasoned Video Creators Make
Think you have YouTube SEO down? Here are five mistakes that even seasoned video creators make.
Customers Are Now Using ‘Friendly Fraud’ to Get Free Stuff — Small Businesses Are Paying the Price
Some shoppers have found a shortcut to not paying for items: skip the return, just dispute the charge. It’s sneaky, and it’s technically fraud.
Telegram’s shortlink domain is back online after day-long suspension
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov confirmed an outage in a tweet, saying that short-links to the messaging app had “stopped working.”
Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant
Spotify is rolling out a new AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat with the app to discover music, podcasts, and audiobooks, and more.
5 Ways to Unlock the Hidden Innovators Already Working for You
Learn how leaders can spot, support and scale the intrapreneurs already inside their organization to drive lasting competitive advantage.
Superhuman’s new auto-draft feature almost makes me like AI replies
Superhuman’s latest AI email drafting feature is its most convincing yet, generating replies that often required little to no editing in our testing.