How to Create a Winning Elevator Pitch for Your Healthy Snack Brand
Michelle Razavi and Nikki Elliot, co-founders of the dessert cashew butter brand Elavi, explain the strategy that helped them win big on “Elevator Pitch.”
Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’
Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs gave an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 an office vending machine to run. And hilarity ensued.
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Flailing Social Media App X Is Worth Billions Less Than It Was Last Year — Here’s Its Plan to Reach Even Deeper Into Users’ Pockets
Ads or not, users should get ready to pay for Elon Musk’s “everything app.”
Quora’s Poe introduces an AI chatbot creator economy
When you think of the term “creator” you generally think of someone making content for social media platforms like TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram. But Quora’s AI chatbot platform Poe is now paying bot creators for their efforts, including those who generate “prompt bots” on Poe itself, as well as server bots created by developers who […]
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How AI is enhancing, not threatening the future of professionals
Driven by the notion of AI as a competitor, fear of job displacement still looms in some corners of the professional world.
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New nonprofit backed by crypto billionaire scores AI chips worth $500M
It’s strange times we’re living in when a blockchain billionaire, not the usual Big Tech suspects, is the one supplying the compute capacity needed to develop generative AI. It was revealed yesterday that Jed McCaleb, the co-founder of blockchain startups Stellar, Ripple and Mt Gox and aerospace company Vast, launched a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that purchased 24,000 […]
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3 Top-Rated Short-Term Bond ETFs to Hide in
Due to the inverted yield curve, short-term bonds now have higher yields at maturity than longer-term bonds. Moreover, with the Fed funds rate expected to remain higher for longer, it…
Biden’s AI EO hailed as broad, but not deep without legislation to match
The Biden administration announced the details of a long-awaited Executive Order on AI today, ahead of an international summit on AI safety being held in the UK. But as with all such orders, what the President can dictate without legislative support is limited, as numerous experts and stakeholders emphasized in response. The order comes as […]
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Connectly taps automation to nudge shoppers to complete purchases
Most consumers interact with ecommerce brands through social media, text and email. Brands reach out with promotions and discounts. But the engagement and read rates tend to be low; according to Gartner, brands risk losing 38% of customers due to poor marketing personalization efforts. Stefanos Loukakos, the former head of Meta’s business-focused Messenger division, thought […]
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Does X’s new valuation make sense?
Snap and X are quite different, but they also share much. Let’s compare what we know about their finances to find out if X’s new valuation is fair.
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Charlie’s senior-focused banking puts new funding toward stopping fraud
Less than six months after launching to the public and announcing a $7.5 million seed raise, a startup providing banking services to Americans over the age of 62 has raised additional funding. The days of closing two capital raises in a matter of months are mostly long gone, so it naturally caught our attention when […]
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