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6 Data-Driven Practices That Separate High-Performing Companies From Everyone Else

May 29, 2026

Being data-driven isn’t about having the best tools — it’s about leaders acting on the right signals quickly and consistently.

I Never Ask My Team to Change — I Ask Them to Grow. Here’s Why It Works.

May 29, 2026

Don’t ask your team to change; ask them to grow. Here’s the difference — and how it helps us scale while maintaining culture.

The New Claude Opus 4.8 Just Dropped — It Was Trained to Be More ‘Honest’ and Stop ‘Jumping to Conclusions’

May 29, 2026

The company says the latest version of its flagship AI model knows to admit when it doesn’t know something and stops making unsupported claims.

The Lowest-Cost Player Doesn’t Always Win — A Market Lesson From Batteries

May 29, 2026

Solar and wind look like they have a cost advantage, but batteries show why the most flexible actors often capture the economic surplus instead.

Kiwibit’s AI-powered bird feeder is my new backyard buddy

May 29, 2026

If you’re looking for a fun way to connect with nature while collecting bird species on an app like Pokémon, give this smart feeder a try.

The Download: unlocking lithium and controlling Ebola

May 29, 2026

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 a new extraction process could unlock the world’s lithium A new method for extracting lithium could cut costs and emissions from one of the world’s most important materials for EVs…

This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory

May 29, 2026

South Korean chip startup Xcena is betting that AI’s real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.

The deadly Ebola outbreak is proving difficult to control

May 29, 2026

The alert was raised on May 5. Four health-care workers in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo had died from an unknown illness within four days. Rapid response teams were sent to investigate, and tests at a research center in Kinshasa revealed the culprit: the Bundibugyo virus, one of the viruses…

Tata Electronics, a major tech supplier to Apple and Tesla, confirms data breach