Public Relations Has Become Machine Relations — Most Founders Have No Idea What This Means
AI now decides whether your earned media gets surfaced, cited or ignored. Here is why founders need to rethink PR strategy right now.
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 New Security Risk Every Business Using AI Needs to Know About (and How to Protect Yourself)
Executives who underestimate the risks of autonomous systems are leaving their organizations exposed to the fastest-growing attack vector in the enterprise.
Your Employees Know What Phishing Looks Like. They’re Still Getting Fooled. Here’s Why.
AI phishing works because it exploits the way people communicate at work. Fixing it requires security teams and communications leaders working together.
Why Your Brand Needs to Start Using Real Photos, Not Generic Imagery
Here’s how to invest in custom visuals and turn that content into years of stronger engagement, trust and brand differentiation.
SAP bets $1.16B on 18-month-old German AI lab and says yes to NemoClaw
SAP plans to buy German AI startup Prior Labs and invest heavily in it. It is also prohibiting customers’ agents use to a select few like Nvidia’s NemoClaw.
Bumble’s paying users are slipping as it bets on an overhaul later this year
Paid users fell 21% compared to the same quarter last year. CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd described this as a ‘deliberate’ shift.
Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences
Altara’s AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data siloed across spreadsheets and legacy systems.
Lucid Motors doesn’t know how many EVs it will build this year
Lucid Motors pulled its guidance for the year, as it navigates swelling inventory and a company-wide cost-cutting measure.
As crypto cools, a16zcrypto raises a $2.2B fund
As some of the biggest VCs in crypto start to consider funding AI startups, a16zcrypto’s new fund will stay the course.
Apple plans to make iOS 27 a Choose Your Own Adventure of AI models
With Apple’s latest operating system updates, users will reportedly have their pick of which third-party AI models they want to use for a host of tasks.