Microsoft Is Offering Voluntary Retirement to 7% of Its Workforce for the First Time — Here’s Why
The tech giant is downsizing while ramping up AI investments as companies claim smaller teams can accomplish more with AI tools.
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…
What’s behind Europe’s efforts to ditch U.S. software in favor of sovereign tech
Governments across Europe are looking to rely less on American tech providers.
I Was Rejected By Over 100 Investors Before I Finally Got a ‘Yes’ — These Are the 5 Fundraising Truths Every Entrepreneur Needs to Hear
The rejections are not the obstacle — they are the curriculum. And if you pay attention, they can teach you more about your business than any accelerator program or startup playbook ever will.
If You’re Not Asking Your Security Leader These 5 Questions Right Now, You’re Inviting Turnover and Data Breaches
Ask these five questions now and you’ll know exactly where your security threat is before it becomes a headline.
The AI Playbook That Built an $80M 1-Person Business (You’re 1 Prompt Away and Don’t Know It)
If I lost everything tomorrow and had to rebuild to seven figures in 12 months using only AI, I wouldn’t guess — I’d reverse-engineer the people who already did it.
Rebuilding the data stack for AI
Artificial intelligence may be dominating boardroom agendas, but many enterprises are discovering that the biggest obstacle to meaningful adoption is the state of their data. While consumer-facing AI tools have dazzled users with speed and ease, enterprise leaders are discovering that deploying AI at scale requires something far less glamorous but far more consequential: data…
This Airline CEO Was Banned From Casinos for Card Counting — Now He’s Making His Biggest Bet Yet
Scott Kirby went all-in on premium cabins, faster Wi-Fi, and brand loyalty — lifting United into direct competition with Delta.
China vetoes Meta’s $2B Manus deal after months-long probe
China has ordered Meta to unwind its multibillion-dollar Manus acquisition, dealing a potential setback to Zuckerberg’s push into AI agents.
OpenAI could be making a phone with AI agents replacing apps
The phone could go in mass production in 2028, an analyst says.
Critical infrastructure giant Itron says it was hacked
The American technology giant provides water and energy monitoring and utility meters to hundreds of millions of homes and businesses.