How to Keep Your Business Thriving When the Market Changes and Disruption Strikes
When forces outside your control start moving fast, the real advantage comes from how you adapt, communicate and refocus before uncertainty turns into instability.
The Download: an AI agent’s hit piece, and preventing lightning
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. Online harassment is entering its AI era Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an AI agent’s request to contribute to matplotlib, a software library he helps manage. Then things…
AI startup CVector raises $5M for its industrial ‘nervous system’
Industrial AI startup CVector built a brain and nervous system for big industry. Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigger challenge: showing customers and investors how this AI-powered software layer translates to real savings on an industrial scale. The New York-based startup has had some success following its pre-seed funding […]
Inside OpenAI’s big play for science
In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at work, in schools—anywhere people have a browser open or a phone out, which is everywhere. Now OpenAI is making an explicit play for scientists. In October, the firm announced that it had launched a…
TikTok alternative Skylight soars to 380K+ users after TikTok U.S. deal finalized
Skylight, a TikTok alternative built on open protocols, has had a busy weekend.
After Years of Setbacks, I Discovered the Principles That Drive Sustainable Business Growth
Here are the foundational principles that enable sustainable growth beyond $5M in revenue.
Why Is Costco Being Sued Over Its $4.99 Rotisserie Chicken?
A class action lawsuit alleges Costco isn’t telling the truth about one of its most popular products.
Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps, including Slack and other workplace tools
Claude users will now be able to call up interactive apps inside the chatbot interface, with Cowork integration coming soon.
Obvious Ventures lands fund five with a 360-degree view of planetary, human, economic health
The 12-year-old firm raised $360,360,360 for its fifth fund. And there’s a reason for that number.
TikTok attributes recent glitches to a power outage at a U.S. data center
The timing of these outages lines up with the long-awaited creation of a separate U.S. TikTok entity last week.
Why chatbots are starting to check your age
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. How do tech companies check if their users are kids? This question has taken on new urgency recently thanks to growing concern about the dangers that can arise when children talk to…