Your Pitch Opens the Door. These Operating Habits Earn My Investment.
Investors learn more from a founder’s operating habits than from their pitch, and a few simple systems can prove you’re serious about building.
The Download: AI’s popularity paradox and EmTech Future 2026
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. People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough? —Will Douglas Heaven Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM designed to come…
Meta opens early access program for new Muse features
Anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list.
The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR’s comment section?
When NPR staffers flagged strange comments under their podcasts on Spotify as bots, it took a Gen Z colleague to (immediately) figure out the mystery.
The Part of Productivity Most Avoid (and Why It’s Costing You Tomorrow)
What you do after a productive day could determine tomorrow’s performance. Discover why relaxation and true recovery are not the same thing.
Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
nthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.
The Financial Questions Every Business Owner Should Be Asking Before Year-End
Here’s how a financial operating system delivers decision-ready information before the opportunity to act disappears.
Google’s New Initiative Aims to Match 25,000 Veterans With These In-Demand Jobs
Google is recruiting veterans for skilled trade careers as the labor shortage deepens.
Why the Most Underrated Marketing Skill Is Knowing When to Stop
Marketing technology removed the natural stopping points, and AI is removing what’s left. The businesses that win will be the ones that know when they’ve said enough.
The Aeropod automates soil aeration without robotics. See it at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Muju Earth Technologies has developed a deceptively simply pod that can save farmers money while improving crop yields.
Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web
The findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users’ data when not configured or secured properly.