The Search Engine Is Becoming a Decision Engine. Here’s How to Survive the AI ‘Zero-Click’ Era.
How businesses can adapt to the zero-click economy and stay visible in an AI-driven search landscape.
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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How to Escape the Shiny Object Trap Before It Derails Your Business
Stop chasing new ideas, and start focusing on what already works.
Why Your Brain Shuts Down at the Worst Possible Moment — and the 20-Second Protocol That Overrides It
Here’s what’s actually happening when you can’t pull the trigger — and why logic alone will never fix it.
How to Build Loyalty in a Job-Hopping Economy
Most employees don’t leave bad companies, they leave unclear one — here’s how to build real growth paths that drive retention, not just promises made in an interview.
Why We Invest in Therapy Every 7 to 10 Days as a Business
What scared me most about building Mid-Day Squares with family wasn’t the risk or uncertainty, but the possibility of damaging the relationships behind the business.
A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom
The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size.
Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.
Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.
Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’
The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity’s AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.
Is xAI a neocloud now?
xAI’s real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.
Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months after its Series A
Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion.