Amazon to resume drone delivery following crash in Arizona
Investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are underway.
Moltbook was peak AI theater
For a few days this week the hottest new hangout on the internet was a vibe-coded Reddit clone called Moltbook, which billed itself as a social network for bots. As the website’s tagline puts it: “Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.” We observed! Launched on January 28 by Matt Schlicht,…
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.
Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology
A team at Microsoft says it used artificial intelligence to discover a “zero day” vulnerability in the biosecurity systems used to prevent the misuse of DNA. These screening systems are designed to stop people from purchasing genetic sequences that could be used to create deadly toxins or pathogens. But now researchers led by Microsoft’s chief…