Wendy’s Fell to No. 3 in Burger Chains. Its New CEO Blames ‘Quality Degradation.’
Bob Wright, who turned around Potbelly, is facing declining sales at Wendy’s. He says the fix starts with the food.
The Download: investigating deaths at the US border’s “virtual wall”
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 US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the US in April 2024, the day before…
North Korean remote IT staffer worked for US government agency, says FBI
The investigation shows that North Koreans are able to infiltrate government agencies, as well as private organizations and crypto exchanges.
His Bootstrapped Business Fixes Broken Customer Service and Brings in 9 Figures a Year: ‘We Should Not Use AI to Replace the Human Touch’
Jose Herrera and his co-founders Alex Ross and Jared Karson set out to revamp outsourcing.
Spotify will label ‘AI Persona’ profiles and exclude their music from recommendations
Spotify is introducing “AI Persona” labels for artist profiles that represent AI-generated identities and will exclude their music from editorial, algorithmic, and personalized recommendations by default.
The Download: the next big thing in LLMs and how AI academic research is shifting
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. These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs Nine years after Google researchers introduced the transformer, this family of neural networks has become the engine inside every major large…
What comes after the smartphone? Amazon’s Panos Panay will make his case at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At Disrupt 2026, Amazon’s Panos Panay will provide an exclusive vision for what’s in store for us beyond the smartphone.
Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models
Anthropic will extend support for watermarking AI generations for older models as well.
I Watched My Startup’s Hidden Weaknesses Surface Overnight — Here’s the 4-Part Stress Test Every Founder Should Run Before a Downturn Hits
Most companies don’t break all at once — they crack in predictable places, and the founders who survive are the ones who pressure-test cash, dependencies, control and speed before the market forces them to.
Why Being “Reliable” Is Quietly Sabotaging Ambitious Leaders — and How to Break the Pattern
After 20 years studying 600 Black women leaders, I learned that the same reliability that builds a reputation is often the thing keeping ambitious leaders — of any background — out of the rooms where advancement actually gets decided.
By Year Three, Half of Founders Are No Longer CEO. Here’s How to Be in the Other Half.
Most founders don’t survive year three because they keep leading the company they started instead of the one they built. Here’s how to shift your calendar, your team and your decision-making before the board decides for you.