The Highest-Earning Franchisees Have These 2 Qualities
When you talk to the top-performing franchisee across many different brands, you will spot some key commonalities.
Roundtables: Can AI Learn to Understand the World?
Listen to the session or watch below AI companies want to build systems that understand the external world and overcome the limitations of LLMs. Recent developments have brought world models to the forefront of the AI discussion. Watch a conversation with editor in chief Mat Honan, senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven, and AI reporter…
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Your Local Aldi Is About to Look a Lot Different
Aldi is putting its name on nearly everything it sells.
Clarifai’s new reasoning engine makes AI models faster and less expensive
The AI platform Clarifai has launched a new reasoning engine that it claims will make running AI models twice as fast and 40% less expensive.
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Her 2 Franchises Will Make $12 Million This Year — Here’s How
After watching her mother run businesses in Indonesia, Josephine Suryono knew she’d one day do the same — just on a different continent.
Databricks will bake OpenAI models into its products in $100M bet to spur enterprise adoption
Databricks is on the hook to pay at least $100 million to OpenAI in this deal, even if customer usage falls short. It’s a bet, but one that Databricks has already hedged.
Apple blames EU’s Digital Markets Act for feature delays
Apple is blaming the EU’s enforcement of the DMA for delaying the launch of some features in the EU, saying the rules are “leading to a worse experience” for Apple customers in the bloc by exposing them to new risks and reducing choices.
Starpath bets on mass-produced, space-rated solar
Starpath is changing the space-rated solar panel industry in its quest to build off-world colonies.
The Download: growing threats to vulnerable languages, and fact-checking Trump’s medical claims
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. How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral Wikipedia is the most ambitious multilingual project after the Bible: There are editions in over 340 languages, and a further 400…