‘Get 100X the Work Done’: Shopify CEO Tells Employees to Try AI to Get Work Done Before Asking for More Human Workers
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke publicly posted a memo to employees asking them to use AI.
The quest to defend against tech in intimate partner violence
After Gioia had her first child with her then husband, he installed baby monitors throughout their Massachusetts home—to “watch what we were doing,” she says, while he went to work. She’d turn them off; he’d get angry. By the time their third child turned seven, Gioia and her husband had divorced, but he still found…
Smart Marketers Use This 4-Step Framework for Every Email Campaign
Explore the 4-part email framework leading businesses use to systematically improve open rates, boost engagement and increase conversions — without relying on guesswork.
Brands, You’re Using Marketing Agencies and Freelancers Wrong. Do This Instead.
Making these common mistakes with your marketing agencies and freelancers is costing your brand time and money. This is what to avoid and what to do instead.
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and the Rest of the 10 Richest People in the World Have All Lost Billions This Year — Except One
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett has gained $11.5 billion this year.
Does Colossal Biosciences dire wolf creation justify its $10B+ valuation?
On Monday, the “de-extinction” startup Colossal Biosciences announced its most ambitious results to date: the dire wolf. These are creatures that have been extinct for more than 12,000 years made famous by the HBO show Game of Thrones. These white, fluffy animals live on a 2,000-acre preserve in a location so secretive that journalists, including […]
A nonprofit is using AI agents to raise money for charity
Tech giants like Microsoft might be touting AI “agents” as profit-boosting tools for corporations, but a nonprofit is trying to prove that agents can be a force for good, too. Sage Future, a 501(c)(3) backed by Open Philanthropy, launched an experiment earlier this month tasking four AI models in a virtual environment with raising money […]
Tapestry’s app can now de-dupe your social feeds
Tapestry, a new app designed to organize the open social web, is adding a valuable feature to help people who are keeping up with multiple social networks: It will now remove duplicate posts from your feed. That means if you follow the same person across social networking services like Bluesky and Mastodon, you won’t have […]
‘Everyone Is Here Because of the Fear’: Customers Rush to Apple Stores to Buy iPhones Before Expected Tariff-Related Price Increases
Apple has yet to announce price adjustments in response to tariffs.
Google fixes two Android zero-day bugs actively exploited by hackers
The most severe security bug can be exploited without user interaction, per Google.
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