Is Your ‘Eco-friendly’ Paper Bag Actually Sustainable? No — and Here’s the Math to Prove It.
Is paper sustainable? A deep dive into lifecycle data reveals paper bags may be worse for the climate than plastic.
The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”
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. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts The AI firm Anthropic has got the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they…
You Can’t Scale a People-Based Business by Burning Through People. Here’s a Better Strategy
As market pressures drive companies to achieve growth at all costs, frontline teams are feeling the consequences. Here’s how leaders can scale without compromising their workforce.
Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20
If you’re building something ambitious, this is a fast track to the people who can move your startup forward.
Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator
The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.
Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
Open-source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life-cycle.
What a Cash Flow Statement Really Tells You About a Business
A company’s true financial health can’t be judged by profit alone.
These Founders Are Building Healthcare Companies for the People the System Keeps Missing
Through Reckitt Catalyst, startups like ThriveLink and Ema EQ are tackling the access and information gaps that shape care long before a patient reaches a clinic.
Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past two months, after harmless images—including spreadsheets, chessboards, game textures, as well as white and gray transparent backgrounds—were incorrectly flagged as harmful content. The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with […]
Google’s Pixel event is set for August 12
Google’s upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices.