At Age 50, She Started a Business From Her Kitchen Table. Now Her Everyday Household Product Makes $31 Million a Year.
Paula Blankenship inherited her mother’s eye for DIY furniture.
The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex”
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. AI for science needs reasoning, not just data —Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and the cofounder of Schmidt Sciences, and Suhas Mahesh, who leads the AI for science work…
Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months
Supabase, an example of an open source project becoming a fast-growing company, has greatly benefited from AI tools like Claude, Codex, and other vibe-coding platforms.
Google and FBI warn of ransomware group that sends fake IT workers to hack victims in person
Cybercriminals, part of a gang known as Silent Ransom Group, have sent people pretending to be IT support employees to law firms’ offices, where the criminals have stolen data using USB drives or remote access tools.
I Built Movement Into My Company’s Workday — Here’s How It Changed Focus and Output
If your team feels slower or burned out, it might not be the workload. It might be how little they move during the day.
Mark Cuban Tells Recent Graduates to ‘Start Your Job Search’ At This Kind of Company
These businesses already account for roughly half of net job creation in recent years.
Arby’s Was Written Off. Then This Investor Rescued It. Now He Wants to Do the Same Thing for Pizza Hut.
The private equity firm circling Pizza Hut turned Arby’s into a $20 billion empire. Now it wants another comeback story.
The token bill comes due: Inside the industry scramble to manage AI’s runaway costs
“The whole conversation shifted from tokenmaxxing and ‘go fast’ to ‘we need guardrails, how do we control this?'”
I Built Movement Into My Company’s Workday — Here’s How It Changed Focus and Output
If your team feels slower or burned out, it might not be the workload. It might be how little they move during the day.
NASA tells astronauts to shelter in SpaceX Dragon due to new ISS leaks
The space agency says Roscosmos has discovered new leaks in the Russian service module that it is trying to repair.
NSA said to be readying Anthropic’s Mythos for use in cyber operations
The U.S. eavesdropping agency is reportedly preparing Anthropic’s Mythos for use in cyberattacks, despite a federal ban on using the AI model maker.