President Donald Trump Announces China Trade Deal, Though One Loophole Stays Closed
The de minimis provision (and how it affects cheap purchases from Temu and Shein) was not mentioned in the deal.
The U.S. Navy is more aggressively telling startups, ‘We want you’
While Silicon Valley executives like those from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI are grabbing headlines for trading their Brunello Cucinelli vests for Army Reserve uniforms, a quieter transformation has been underway in the U.S. Navy. How? Well, the Navy’s Chief Technology Officer Justin Fanelli says he has spent the last two and a half years focused […]
AI Isn’t Just Changing How We Work — It’s Changing How We Learn
AI agents are opening doors to education that just a few years ago would have been unthinkable. Here’s how.
OpenAI’s Stargate project reportedly struggling to get off the ground, thanks to tariffs
OpenAI’s ambitious Stargate data center project is facing delays thanks to tariff-related economic uncertainty, reports Bloomberg. Growing market volatility and cheaper AI services have made banks, private equity investors, and asset managers wary of investing in Stargate, an OpenAI-led project that aims to raise up to $500 million for AI infrastructure in the U.S. and […]
GM taps Aurora co-founder for new chief product officer role
General Motors has turned to Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry, to oversee its entire product line of gas-powered and electric vehicles in a newly created job that will touch nearly every department at the U.S. automaker. The new VP of global product and chief product officer position will cover the entire […]
Google’s Gemma AI models surpass 150M downloads
Google’s openly available Gemma collection of AI models has reached a milestone: over 150 million downloads. Omar Sanseviero, a developer relations engineer at Google DeepMind, announced the figure on X over the weekend, also revealing that developers have created more than 70,000 variants of Gemma on the AI dev platform Hugging Face. Google launched Gemma […]
I Was the Toxic Boss I Swore I’d Never Be — Here are 4 Confessions from My Leadership Recovery
Lots has been written about working for and dealing with a toxic boss. But have you ever considered whether that boss might be you?
InventWood is about to mass produce wood that’s stronger than steel
The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.
The Download: a new form of AI surveillance, and the US and China’s tariff deal
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 type of AI is helping police skirt facial recognition bans Police and federal agencies have found a controversial new way to skirt the growing patchwork of laws that curb how…
How to Take Control of Your Brand’s Story With This DIY Strategy
In a media landscape where visibility matters, entrepreneurs are turning to content marketing and “do-it-yourself public relations” strategies to take control of how their stories are told.
This American VC is betting on European defense tech; that’s still very unusual
VCs are known to move in herds, which is why Eric Slesinger stands out a bit. While most American investors chase AI startups or U.S.-based defense tech startups, the former CIA officer is hunting for defense tech deals in Europe. In fact, Slesinger, founder of 201 Ventures, recently closed a $22 million fund focused on […]