This 23-Year-Old Turned a Facebook Marketplace Find Into a Creative Household Product. It Exploded on Social Media and Made $150K in 2 Weeks.
Oskar Flodstrom spent about $120 to bring his unique idea to life.
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…
The FAA’s plan to fix air traffic? $875 million worth of AI
A new AI-based software program is being launched to help air traffic controllers better navigate their jobs as the crossing guards of America’s skies.
Stop Treating AI Bias Like a Bug. It’s a Leadership Problem — and It’s Already in Your Business.
AI doesn’t remove bias — it scales it. That makes responsible AI a leadership issue, not a technical one.
I Built a Company in One Of America’s Most Complex Industries. Here’s Why Innovation Alone Won’t Make You Successful.
After starting a company in one of the most heavily regulated sectors, I’ve learned that lasting success isn’t driven by innovation alone.
The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI
Y Combinator has funded 106 companies related to AI observability in recent years
OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting misalignment as increasingly capable AI models learn to hide it.
Is the AI safety debate about safety or control?
Not everyone agrees with Amodei’s call for globally coordinated action for AI safety.
UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents
The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI’s data practices “theft” while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
He Joined Citadel in 1994 With No Trading Experience and Helped Build It to $10 Billion. He Credits His Success to This Mindset.
Alec Litowitz says Citadel founder Ken Griffin appreciated ‘how his brain worked.’