Stop Pitching Telehealth — Start Building a Real Business
What we learned at a high cost is that telehealth is not just about video visits, but about establishing a scalable revenue model.
The Download: The startup that says it can stop lightning, and inside OpenAI’s Pentagon deal
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. This startup claims it can stop lightning and prevent catastrophic wildfires Startup Skyward Wildfire says it can prevent catastrophic fires by stopping the lightning strikes that ignite them. So far, it hasn’t publicly…
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X’s Former CEO Linda Yaccarino Is a Chief Executive Again
The former NBC executive and X leader is now the CEO of an online GLP-1 health management company.
Linda Yaccarino joins health tech platform eMed as CEO after leaving X
Former X CEO Linda Yaccarino lands at health tech startup eMed.
Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release
While the ActivityPub integration is a main selling point for Ghost 6, this major release includes a number of other changes and new additions.
OpenAI has finally released open-weight language models
OpenAI has finally released its first open-weight large language models since 2019’s GPT-2. These new “gpt-oss” models are available in two different sizes and score similarly to the company’s o3-mini and o4-mini models on several benchmarks. Unlike the models available through OpenAI’s web interface, these new open models can be freely downloaded, run, and even…
The Crypto Market Is Growing, But Serious Risks Still Lie Beneath the Surface. Here’s What Investors Need to Know.
Here’s why crypto needs a decentralized clearing layer.
This Restaurant CEO Created His Own National Holiday (and Turned It Into a Business Strategy)
Mehdi Zarhloul discusses how he built a thriving Las Vegas restaurant brand, Crazy Pita, and proves you don’t have to wait for permission to succeed.
OpenAI launches two ‘open’ AI reasoning models
For the first time in more than five years, OpenAI is launching a new open language model that appears to be state-of-the-art.
Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it
In a debate likely to get louder as AI agent usage grows, some people say Perplexity crawling blocked websites isn’t a simple matter.
The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation. Here’s what it is.
The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, known as the EU AI Act, has been described as “the world’s first comprehensive AI law” by the European Commission.