Uber adds a new type of account with a simpler UI for the elderly
Uber today revealed a new type of account, called Senior Accounts, for older users that prioritizes a simpler app experience.
At WWDC 2025, Apple sang developers’ praises amid AI letdowns and App Store battles
Apple has yet to deliver on some of the key technology advances that could modernize developers’ apps for the AI era.
The Download: AI’s role in math, and calculating its energy footprint
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. What’s next for AI and math The modern world is built on mathematics. Math lets us model complex systems such as the way air flows around an aircraft, the way financial markets fluctuate,…
Apple names 2025 Design Awards winners
Apple has named 12 apps across six categories for this year’s Design Awards.
What’s next for AI and math
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. The way DARPA tells it, math is stuck in the past. In April, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency kicked off a new initiative called expMath—short…
One of Africa’s most successful founders is back with a new AI startup and already raised $9M
In 2023, co-founders Karim Jouini and Jihed Othmani sold their expense management startup Expensya to Swedish procurement software firm Medius in what is widely considered to be one of the largest acquisitions of an African startup. Some sources say the sum was just over $120 million, although deal terms were not disclosed. Success achieved, both […]
Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models
Windsurf, the popular vibe coding startup that’s reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, said Anthropic significantly reduced its first-party access to its Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI models. Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan said in a post on X that Anthropic gave Windsurf little notice for this change, and the startup now has to […]
I Scaled a 500-Person Company on Hustle — But Wellness Made It Sustainable (and More Profitable)
This CEO’s mindset shift reveals how daily wellness habits can fuel better leadership, stronger teams and lasting business growth.
‘Building It Ourselves’: Morgan Stanley Created an AI Tool to Fix the Most Annoying Part of Coding. Here’s How It Works.
Morgan Stanley first introduced the AI tool in January, and it has since saved developers 280,000 hours of work.
Anthropic’s AI is writing its own blog — with human oversight
Anthropic has given its AI a blog. A week ago, Anthropic quietly launched Claude Explains, a new page on its website that’s generated mostly by the company’s AI model family, Claude. Populated by posts on technical topics related to various Claude use cases (e.g. “Simplify complex codebases with Claude”), the blog is intended to be […]
A Hot Chicken Chain Founded in 2017 Was Just Acquired for $1 Billion: ‘One of the Great Entrepreneurial Journeys of our Time’
Four childhood friends took Dave’s Hot Chicken from portable fryers in a parking lot to a billion-dollar restaurant acquisition.