This Awkward McDonald’s CEO Video Sparked a Fast Food War with Burger King and Wendy’s
Chris Kempczinski’s cringe Big Arch burger video went viral, causing Burger King and Wendy’s to respond with their own CEO videos.
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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I’ve Been an Entrepreneur for Over a Decade — and These 5 Issues Still Challenge Me Every Day
After 10+ years of being an entrepreneur and CEO, these five questions never stop circling in my mind.
They Started a Newsletter in College and 5 Years Later Sold It for $75 Million. Here’s How Alex Lieberman Builds Big Things.
Alex Lieberman, co-founder of Morning Brew, Tenex and storyarb, on bringing your vision to life.
Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool
Called Automations, the new system gives users a way to automatically launch agents within their coding environment, triggered by a new addition to the codebase, a Slack message, or a simple timer.
Meta sued over AI smart glasses’ privacy concerns, after workers reviewed nudity, sex, and other footage
Lawyers say Meta’s marketing materials promised privacy and user control over sharing footage. But an investigation found that subcontractors are reviewing footage from customers’ glasses.
Workers Are Draining Their Retirement Accounts at Record Rates. Here’s Why.
Six percent of workers raided their 401(k)s last year, up from 2% before the pandemic, Vanguard data shows.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei could still be trying to make a deal with Pentagon
Anthropic’s $200 million contract with the Department of Defense broke down due to disagreements over giving the military unrestricted access to its AI.
Oura acquires Doublepoint, a startup that specializes in gesture recognition technology
The company believes its next phase of wearable AI will be powered by a combination of voice and gesture.
Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking company InterPositive
Affleck says he wanted to “preserve what makes human storytelling human, which is judgement.”
Data Is Only Half the Story When It Comes to Marketing — Here’s How to Balance It With Real Human Emotion
The challenge for modern marketers is not whether to trust the data, but how to translate it into work that still feels human.