Microsoft is buying tons of carbon removal from Xprize startup Vaulted Deep
Microsoft’s data center boom has been imperiling its 2030 carbon negative pledge, so the tech giant is turning to Vaulted Deep, which operates like a reverse oil company.
The Download: how your data is being used to train AI, and why chatbots aren’t doctors
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. A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in…
Does Your Business Feel Stuck? Here’s the Mindset Shift That Will Move It Forward.
Your business isn’t stuck — you’re just asking the wrong questions.
Hadrian raises $260M to build out automated factories for space and defense parts
Hadrian wants to revolutionize American manufacturing through automation.
After raising over $3M, popular VC-backed beauty brand Ami Colé is shuttering
Diarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye, one of the first among the small number of Black women to raise more than $1 million in venture capital, announced on Thursday the closure of her award-winning beauty startup Ami Colé.
How to run an LLM on your laptop
MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Simon Willison has a plan for the end of the world. It’s a USB stick, onto which he has loaded a couple of his favorite open-weight LLMs—models that have been shared publicly by their creators and that can, in principle, be downloaded and run…
I’ve Helped 124,393 Entrepreneurs With Their Advertising — Here Are My Top 3 Secrets Proven to Generate Results
Consumers are busier than ever, but you can still break through the ad fog with these three road-tested tips.
Got a Startup Idea? Here’s What It Really Takes to Make It Work
Having a great idea is only the starting line.
We Have More Productivity Tools Than Ever — So Why Are We Getting Less Done?
Despite all the tools promising speed and efficiency, most companies are working harder and getting less done. The culprit isn’t the technology; it’s how we use it.
OpenAI launches a general purpose agent in ChatGPT
OpenAI announced the launch of ChatGPT agent, which the company claims to be its most capable AI agent product yet.
Twitch starts testing vertical video streams
Twitch’s tests are not widespread at this point, as Appsensa’s research only found a handful of references in the app’s code that mentioned the tests would focus on just “a few streamers” for the time being.