Franchises Like Taco Bell Are Stealing This Strategy from Nike — And It’s Working
To stand out, chains are borrowing ‘drops’ from sneaker culture, serving up merch and food to restaurant fans.
The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off
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. A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth last month with a huge claim: it had solved a mathematical bottleneck…
Colossal Bioscience’s Multidisciplinary Science Approach Makes Major Breakthrough: Artificial Avian Eggs
Colossal founder Ben Lamm explains the company’s scientific efforts to restore extinct bird species.
LinkedIn Is Fighting Back Against AI Slop — and AI Comments
As AI makes it easier than ever to publish on LinkedIn, the platform is racing to separate genuine expertise from algorithm-chasing “AI slop.”
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team
Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic to work on pre-training. He previously co-founded and worked at OpenAI and led computer vision and AI at Tesla.
The minimalist Light Phone teams up with Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile, which pays you to stop doomscrolling
“The Light Phone is designed to be used as little as possible,” founder Joe Hollier told TechCrunch.
Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages in an ongoing supply chain attack
The attacks are part of a wider campaign known as Mini Shai-Hulud, which has already compromised several open source projects and, in turn, developers and companies that use them.
US cyber agency CISA exposed reams of passwords and cloud keys to the open web
The federal cybersecurity agency left plaintext passwords in a spreadsheet uploaded to a public GitHub repository, per a report by independent journalist Brian Krebs.
Apple announces Apple Intelligence powered accessibility feature updates
Apple is introducing a feature to let Vision Pro control a compatible wheelchair with their eyes
‘Survivor’ stars Kyle Fraser and Kamilla Karthigesu introduce a goal-tracking app, Paprclip
A new app from Survivor 48 winner Kyle Fraser and castmate Kamilla Karthigesu aims to turn goal tracking into a social experience, pairing users for accountability, daily challenges, and shared progress clips.
Forget the feed: Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment
Interactive social media site Status announced Tuesday $17 million in combined seed and Series A funding, with investors including General Catalyst, YC, LightShed Ventures, and Abstract.