The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR’s comment section?
When NPR staffers flagged strange comments under their podcasts on Spotify as bots, it took a Gen Z colleague to (immediately) figure out the mystery.
The Download: weight-loss drugs slowing aging and carbon dioxide batteries
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. Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers Popular weight-loss drugs may do more than help people shed pounds. They might also slow the aging process. Drugmakers Eli Lilly…
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Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
nthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.
The Financial Questions Every Business Owner Should Be Asking Before Year-End
Here’s how a financial operating system delivers decision-ready information before the opportunity to act disappears.
Google’s New Initiative Aims to Match 25,000 Veterans With These In-Demand Jobs
Google is recruiting veterans for skilled trade careers as the labor shortage deepens.
Why the Most Underrated Marketing Skill Is Knowing When to Stop
Marketing technology removed the natural stopping points, and AI is removing what’s left. The businesses that win will be the ones that know when they’ve said enough.
The Aeropod automates soil aeration without robotics. See it at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Muju Earth Technologies has developed a deceptively simply pod that can save farmers money while improving crop yields.
Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web
The findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users’ data when not configured or secured properly.
Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test
Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing’s World War II codebreaking work.
Before You Launch Your Next Business, Ask These 4 Questions
Discover practical strategies for vertical integration, strategic expansion and scaling businesses that work together to increase profitability and long-term value.