Tesla’s door handles may spur new US safety rules
The new rule-making process follows a series of incidents, including fatal ones, in which people have become stuck inside cars.
The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives
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. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. —Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined…
Meta drops out of a major clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout accelerates
Meta has made significant investments in natural gas over the past year. Now, it’s dropping out of an industry renewable energy group.
23-Year-Old AI Billionaire Says Gen Z Should Avoid This Popular Career Tactic
When reviewing job applications from young people, Brendan Foody found this pattern.
Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models
Claude’s new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email
AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing
The Series A was led by Battery Ventures, bringing AegisAI total funding to $49 million.
2 Brothers Started a $1.2M Side Hustle as Teens. The Blue-Collar Business Made $3M Last Year: ‘Young People Are Looking for Different Career Paths.’
Kirk and Jacob McKinney’s business began with a single pick-up truck.
The Metric You’re Using to Measure Customer Experience Is Costing You Revenue
Measuring customer experience as a cost center instead of a growth function is costing you more revenue than you think.
US government says Iran-linked hackers are disrupting American water and energy providers
An updated government advisory warns that Iranian hackers are exploiting systems used by water and energy providers.
Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement”
When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been carefully removed from a donor’s body, it starts to deteriorate. Surgeons have a matter of hours to get it into a recipient. Leave it too long and the organ will become unusable. In most cases, organs will be kept…
The Leaders Who Engaged With AI Early Are No Longer Learning the Basics. Here Is How to Catch Up — and Get Ahead.
The gap is not technical — it is experiential, built through reps of educating imperfect systems on how your business actually works, and it compounds every week you wait.