Pocket raises $11M in bet on rising demand for AI note-taking devices
Pocket sells a $129, credit card-shaped puck, which sticks to the back of your phone, and promises unlimited recordings, transcriptions and to-do items.
The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap
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. God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. According to Eli and his wife,…
Flipper Device’s new Busy Bar is a customizable display for productivity
Flipper Device’s new Busy Bar will retail for $249.
Omen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet
Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A to monitor chip coolant and stop bacterial outbreaks in data centers.
The Download: metric weaknesses and AI elephant warnings
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. The inevitable weakness of metrics There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more that it can obscure or corrupt. Like a lot of people bitten…
California law targeting loud streaming ads takes effect on July 1
Streaming ads might be getting a lot quieter.
Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short
“Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence … that would produce a high-quality product.”
4 AI Prompts to Build a Profitable One-Person Business in 2026 (The Part Every AI Influencer Skips)
Spot the one move every AI influencer skips — and turn it into your next multimillion-dollar business.
The 5-Question Org Chart Audit I Run Before Scaling AI Across a Business
AI success depends less on the technology and more on the organization behind it. These five questions help leaders identify the structural barriers that prevent AI from delivering real business impact.
The Security Blind Spot Most Founders Don’t Realize They Have — Until It’s Too Late
False confidence in surface-level privacy tools creates a dangerous blind spot, where founders assume data is protected while failing to understand how exposure actually accumulates across modern systems.
Most Companies Are Already Failing at AI. They Just Don’t Know It Yet.
The metrics leaders are using to judge their AI progress are the wrong ones, and the window to course-correct is shorter than anyone wants to admit.