General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI
River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has a fascinating vision for personal agents and secured $1.1 billion out of the gate.
The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants
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. A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young —Antonio Regalado I knew I’d officially become a “longevity influencer” when a company called Generation Lab offered me the…
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Why Some Entrepreneurs Multiply Their Impact With AI While Others Just Work Faster
AI won’t give you an edge if it just helps you move faster — it’s how you use it to think, decide, and scale that separates winners from the rest.
He Changed One Thing About His Website. Then Sales Jumped $10,000.
Everyone wants more customers. The harder question is whether they can actually find you when they’re ready to buy.
An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems
For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn’t solved it — but the company’s models made more progress than you might expect.
Business Formation Is Booming. What’s Driving the Surge?
Here’s what’s driving America’s newest wave of entrepreneurs — and what the data suggests comes next.
How This Founder Turned an Awkward College Bathroom Story Into a Leading Brand in a Billion Dollar Category
Sam Nebel turned a frat house conversation into a billion-dollar-category brand — and is teaming up with Liquid Death for a surprise collab.
How to Teach Kids to Become Fearless Entrepreneurs
Discover how serial founder Steve Distante is using storytelling and strength-finding to help kids fall in love with entrepreneurship—before the world convinces them it’s impossible.
Joby Aviation builds out defense business with $500M acquisition
Joby Aviation reached an agreement to acquire Resonant Sciences, which will kick off its new defense business.
Delta investigating after someone set up fake Wi-Fi network mid-flight
The Delta flight crew switched off the aircraft’s legitimate Wi-Fi network for around 30 minutes due to the incident, according to a spokesperson.
2025’s most downloaded game, Block Blast!, is going ad-free on Apple Arcade
Block Blast!, the most downloaded mobile game of 2025, is coming to Apple Arcade in September where it will be ad-free.