900 Applicants Wanted a Startup Internship. First, They Had to Meet a Surprising Old-School Requirement.
It’s one more hoop to jump through for candidates looking for entry-level work.
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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What the Gulf’s Growing Investment in Africa Signals About the Next Decade of Global Capital
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Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner
Anthropic has released the newest version of its mid-range model, boasting faster response times and less token burn.
When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture about hard biology problems and human scientists run experiments on what…
Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’
As all-in-one AI agents like Meta’s Muse and Instinct take off, Google is opting to end a feature which built task-specific agents.
How He Turned His Tiny Studio Into a Fitness Powerhouse: ‘At First People Were Coming Just to Play With My Dog and I Was Okay With That’
Sam Tooley turned personal tragedy into Alpha Fit Club, a fitness franchise that’s about to host its biggest competition yet.
I Realized I Was My Own Business’s Biggest Risk. Here’s What It Taught Me.
Here’s how turning experience into systems allows a company to scale beyond its owner.
OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breath of the incidents s alarming.
Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative
Meta says it will focus on bringing its full technology stack, including Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, Muse Code, and more to businesses and developers.
The iPhone Duo may already have its first killer app: a virtual Walkman
An indie developer’s upcoming app for the iPhone Duo is going viral for turning the new foldable into a virtual Walkman.