4 Ways to Build Influence at Work Without Waiting for a Promotion
After two decades and twelve corporate roles, one executive learned that influence — not authority — is what actually gets cross-functional teams to follow your lead.
The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives
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 3 Questions That Make Every Email Campaign More Profitable
The real reason your email campaigns underperform isn’t the copy — it’s a bloated, unverified contact list you’ve never cleaned up.
SEO Isn’t Dead — But Winning Search Now Requires a New Playbook
It’s clear, provocative and directly addresses the concern many marketers have while setting up the article’s argument about GEO.
How to Rebuild Your Leadership Instincts in a Hybrid Workplace
Hybrid work has rewritten the rules of leadership. The managers who succeed are the ones who adapt their approach to trust, communication and accountability.
Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C
The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.
Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet
The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.
Why Realta Fusion is building a fusion reactor at an old hot dog factory
An old Oscar Meyer factory in Wisconsin will become America’s latest fusion power research and development hub.
Backed by $60M in funding, Oak steps out of stealth to fix the identity mess that AI agents are making worse
Cofounded by senior entrepreneur Shai Morag, Israeli identity management startup Oak is emerging out of stealth with $60 million in seed funding.
A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era
Someone has to bundle all the wires that go into rockets, missiles, and satellites.
Your Biggest AI Cost Isn’t the Technology — It’s the Hidden Debt Quietly Draining Your Budget
Hidden AI technical debt is quietly eroding ROI and making every new AI investment more expensive.