Cinnamon Is Suddenly the Hot New Ingredient on Restaurant Menus and Cinnabon Is Cashing In
Cinnabon just had its best growth year yet, thanks to a nationwide cinnamon craze and an expanded drink menu.
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…
Google will now let you sign in to your account with a selfie video
The tech giant says selfie videos give users more options to sign in if they’re ever locked out or don’t have access to their usual phone or computer.
They Bet Everything to Turn a Simple Snack into a Restaurant Brand. Now They’re on Track for $20 Million in Revenue.
Kyle and Maggie Gordon wanted to elevate this food from a mere side note or appetizer to the main dish.
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.
What Every Founder Gets Wrong About Scaling — And the 4 Principles That Fix It
Growth exposes every weakness in how you operate — here are the four principles I return to whenever the business starts to feel out of control.
OpenAI Lost Control Of Its AI During a Security Test — And It Hacked Another Company: ‘Deeply Concerning’
The incident shook AI researchers across the industry.
AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model — no GPUs required, it says.
Edtech platform raises $4.5M to help teach students how to vibe code
Imagi announced a $4.5 million seed round, with investors including Brighteye Ventures, Day One Capital, and artist Wil.i.am.
Nvidia is sending GPUs to the Moon
If there’s a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
Google closes in on another billion user product with Gemini
Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February