Sephora Is Rolling Out ‘Quiet Hours’ Worldwide — Here’s What That Sounds Like
Lower music, dimmed screens, less stimulation. Sephora joins Walmart, Target and AMC in a growing accessibility trend.
I Thought Deploying AI Was a Technical Problem. It Exposed Every Gap in How I Was Running My Company.
I built an AI executive copilot into how I run my company every day. What I learned had less to do with the technology and more to do with how well I actually knew my business.
Could This Sport Become the Next Pickleball? Entrepreneurs Are Betting Big That It Will.
Padel courts have grown from 227 to 1,000 in three years, and everyone from fashion execs and coffee founders want in.
A Florida Pastor Is Suing OpenAI, Claiming ChatGPT Gave Him ‘Extremely Dangerous’ Medical Advice
It’s reportedly the first lawsuit of its kind, raising hard questions about who’s liable when AI gives bad health advice.
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Ford bets on Apple for its next-generation of EVs
Ford is the first automaker to use a new set of developer tools that will let it embed Apple Maps navigation and mapping directly into its vehicles’ infotainment systems.
The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI
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. The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags During a heat wave on July 3, New York State’s grid imported enough electricity from Canada to meet about…
How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines
Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered proteins rather than synthetic chemistry (which are often used to…
Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
“I don’t think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation,” one expert told TechCrunch.
The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags
On July 3, as a heat wave swept the region, New York State’s grid imported 52 gigawatt-hours of electricity from Canada—enough to meet about 9% of its total electricity demand that day. Some of that power shuttled in on a 339-mile power line stretching from Quebec to Queens called the Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE).…
The Leaders Who Engaged With AI Early Are No Longer Learning the Basics. Here Is How to Catch Up — and Get Ahead.
The gap is not technical — it is experiential, built through reps of educating imperfect systems on how your business actually works, and it compounds every week you wait.