Why Smart Entrepreneurs Let AI Do the Heavy Business Lifting
How modern entrepreneurs are using AI to save time, boost sales and win customer loyalty — without breaking the bank.
The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives
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. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. —Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined…
‘Baby or Your Money Back’: People Thought This Stanford Grad’s Idea Was ‘Crazy,’ But She Built Her IVF Product Anyway — And Just Snagged $400 Million.
Claire Tomkins, founder and CEO of Future Family, worked in consumer finance before she took to the leap into entrepreneurship.
Analyst says Apple, Tesla have biggest exposure to Trump’s tariffs
Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives slashed his price targets for Apple and Tesla over the weekend as President Trump’s tariffs threaten to disrupt both businesses. “The tariff economic Armageddon unleashed by Trump is a complete disaster for Apple given its massive China production exposure,” Ives said in a warning note over the weekend. “In our […]
Former Tesla exec Drew Baglino’s new startup is rethinking the electrical transformer
Heron Power is raising between $30 million to $50 million for a Series A, according to a report.
How I Built a Profitable Personal Brand as a Female Leader — and How You Can, Too
After a life-changing wake-up call, I realized no corporate job would give me the freedom I needed as a mom — so I built a personal brand that did.
Get Your Dev Team in Sync (Even Remotely) with MS Visual Studio Pro for Just $28
Real-time collaboration with Live Share boosts productivity and keeps code clean.
Here’s How Tariffs Will Affect Costco’s Prices, According to the Company’s CEO
Costco CEO Ron Vachris said that one-third of U.S. sales are imported from other countries.
‘This Has to Stop’: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Outlines How to Run a Successful Meeting
In his annual letter to shareholders Monday, the JPMorgan CEO wrote that meetings have the potential to slow a business down.
Waymo may use interior camera data to train generative AI models, sell ads
Waymo is preparing to use data from its robotaxis, including video from interior cameras tied to rider identities, to train generative AI models, according to an unreleased version of its privacy policy found by researcher Jane Manchun Wong. The draft language reveals Waymo may also share this data to personalize ads, raising fresh questions about […]
Google’s AI Mode now lets users ask complex questions about images
Google is bringing multimodal search to AI Mode, its Google Search experiment that lets users ask complex, multi-part questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic. Users who have access to AI Mode can now tap the feature to ask questions about photos they’ve uploaded or taken with their camera. The new image-analyzing functionality […]