After nine years of grinding, Replit finally found its market. Can it keep it?
While AI coding startups like Cursor raise brow-raising rounds on barely three years of existence, Replit’s path to a $3 billion valuation has been anything but swift.
The Download: squeezing more metal out of aging mines, and AI’s truth crisis
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. Microbes could extract the metal needed for cleantech In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a…
Amazon to resume drone delivery following crash in Arizona
Investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are underway.
Netflix Just Posted a Fully Remote Job That Pays $700K. Here’s What It Requires.
Netflix is actively recruiting for a remote, high-paying job that involves working with generative AI.
An AI Company Just Made Its $200-a-Month Product Totally Free
Perplexity, valued at around $20 billion, launched its Comet browser in July.
Baby Boomers Still Rule Real Estate, Owning Twice as Much Property as Millennials, According to a New Report
Baby boomers hold 51.7% of the nation’s wealth, more than any other generation.
Department of Energy cancels $7.5B of clean energy projects in mostly blue states
The Trump administration canceled over 300 awards related to clean energy on October 1. The states most affected by the cuts voted for Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
She Started a Business That Broke the Mold for NYC Cafés — And Grew It Into a Multi-City Brand
Elisa Marshall built Maman from a single New York café into a beloved brand that feels like “home away from home.”
I Thought My Team Was Resisting Change — Turns Out It Was a Signal That Would Save My Company From Failure
What looks like pushback is often just unspoken risk — and the smartest leaders know how to listen, translate, and turn it into momentum.
Anthropic hires new CTO with focus on AI infrastructure
Former Stripe CTO Rahuil Patil is joining Anthropic to fine-tune the company’s infrastructure.
OpenAI’s Sora soars to No. 3 on the U.S. App Store
Sora becomes the No. 3 US app after 164K downloads in 2 days, making the AI video app an early hit.