Brands, You’re Using Marketing Agencies and Freelancers Wrong. Do This Instead.
Making these common mistakes with your marketing agencies and freelancers is costing your brand time and money. This is what to avoid and what to do instead.
Why the climate promises of AI sound a lot like carbon offsets
The International Energy Agency states in a new report that AI could eventually reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, possibly by much more than the boom in energy-guzzling data center development pushes them up. The finding echoes a point that prominent figures in the AI sector have made as well to justify, at least implicitly, the gigawatts’ worth…
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and the Rest of the 10 Richest People in the World Have All Lost Billions This Year — Except One
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett has gained $11.5 billion this year.
Does Colossal Biosciences dire wolf creation justify its $10B+ valuation?
On Monday, the “de-extinction” startup Colossal Biosciences announced its most ambitious results to date: the dire wolf. These are creatures that have been extinct for more than 12,000 years made famous by the HBO show Game of Thrones. These white, fluffy animals live on a 2,000-acre preserve in a location so secretive that journalists, including […]
A nonprofit is using AI agents to raise money for charity
Tech giants like Microsoft might be touting AI “agents” as profit-boosting tools for corporations, but a nonprofit is trying to prove that agents can be a force for good, too. Sage Future, a 501(c)(3) backed by Open Philanthropy, launched an experiment earlier this month tasking four AI models in a virtual environment with raising money […]
Tapestry’s app can now de-dupe your social feeds
Tapestry, a new app designed to organize the open social web, is adding a valuable feature to help people who are keeping up with multiple social networks: It will now remove duplicate posts from your feed. That means if you follow the same person across social networking services like Bluesky and Mastodon, you won’t have […]
‘Everyone Is Here Because of the Fear’: Customers Rush to Apple Stores to Buy iPhones Before Expected Tariff-Related Price Increases
Apple has yet to announce price adjustments in response to tariffs.
Google fixes two Android zero-day bugs actively exploited by hackers
The most severe security bug can be exploited without user interaction, per Google.
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Amazon’s Zoox begins robotaxi testing in Los Angeles
Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous vehicle unit, is deploying a small fleet of retrofitted test vehicles on the streets of Los Angeles starting Tuesday – a modest, yet meaningful step as the company inches toward offering public rides in Las Vegas and San Francisco later this year. The data-collection effort marks Zoox’s entrance into its sixth city […]
You Can Avoid Burnout by Rethinking the 30,000 Daily Decisions You Make — Here’s How
Making decisions is a daily reality for everyone, but for entrepreneurs, the higher stakes and volume can lead to decision fatigue. Addressing its root causes and creating a system to mitigate burnout is essential to prevent mental and emotional exhaustion.