‘Gradually Stop Using Contractors’: Duolingo Is Replacing Contract Workers With AI
Duolingo is taking an “AI-first” approach, meaning it will assign AI tasks previously completed by human workers.
The U.S. Added Over 1,000 New Millionaires a Day in 2024. Here’s How That Compares to the Rest of the World.
UBS revealed its latest report on global wealth on Wednesday, which looks back on wealth trends.
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This Gene Therapy Startup Wants to Change the Way We Age
Mac Davis of Minicircle on the challenges and opportunities of a controversial new treatment.
How AI, Funding Cuts and Shifting Skills Are Redefining Education — and What It Means for the Future of Work
As AI accelerates and old funding models crumble, the future of education will belong to the bold — not the nostalgic.
OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT ‘too sycophant-y’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday said that the company is “rolling back” the latest update to the default AI model powering ChatGPT, GPT-4o, after complaints about strange behavior, in particular extreme sycophancy. “[W]e started rolling back the latest update to GPT-4o last night,” Altman wrote in a post on X. “[I]t’s now 100% rolled back for […]
Troubled startup CaaStle is now facing two new lawsuits and more allegations
CaaStle, the embattled fashion startup whose board of directors accused its founder, Christine Hunsicke, of financial misconduct, is starting to face lawsuits from a partner and a supplier over missed payments and more allegations of fraud. As first reported by Axios and by suits seen by TechCrunch, CaaStle is being sued by P180, a vehicle […]
How to Lead Effectively When Everything Feels Fragile and Nothing Feels Certain
In a world defined by constant disruption, today’s most effective leaders are those who embrace uncertainty, build trust through collaboration and cultivate inner resilience to drive meaningful change under pressure.
Why Your Communication Flaws Are Quietly Costing You More Than You Think
Your business doesn’t have a communications problem — it has a momentum problem. Missed calls, clunky tools and scattered messages aren’t just annoying.
Meta says its Llama AI models have been downloaded 1.2B times
In mid-March, Meta said that its “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads, up from 650 million downloads as of early December 2024. On Tuesday at its inaugural LlamaCon developer conference, Meta revealed that figure has reached 1.2 billion downloads. “We have thousands of developers contributing tens of thousands of derivative models being downloaded […]
Amazon’s first 27 internet satellites launch to space
The first 27 satellites in Amazon’s effort to create a space-based internet network have finally made it to orbit, paving the way for the company to attempt to compete with Elon Musk’s well-established Starlink service. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifted off late Monday from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in […]
Tesla board member Joe Gebbia actually bought some stock
Tesla board member and Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia acquired about 4,000 shares of the automaker’s stock, a purchase that has a value of about $1 million and change, according to a regulatory filing. That’s not a significant stock purchase, and certainly not for the billionaire board member, as Electrek noted in its reporting. It’s notable […]