This Senior Couple Started a Business to Stop Snoring. Their Ad Was ‘Too Pornographic’ — Then They Hit $250K in Monthly Sales: ‘It’s Lunacy’
Lloyd and Sue Ecker went all the way back to 1888 to find a snoring solution.
How an overlooked geothermal plant got a second chance
In June 2024, a small company called Zanskar purchased a geothermal power plant in New Mexico that was failing fast. The water coming from the underground reservoir was getting colder by the day, making the plant uneconomical to run. Now, two years later, that plant is running at full capacity again, thanks to a new…
Apple’s John Ternus will run one of the world’s most powerful companies; the job is a minefield
Apple’s top job comes with almost unrivaled power and money, but it comes with plenty of baggage, too.
Forget Follower Counts — If Your Audience Isn’t Interacting, Your Brand Is Just an Expensive Illusion
It’s time to stop obsessing over vanity metrics and start measuring what truly indicates brand health.
AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans
Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.
Apple’s Cal AI crackdown signals it’s still policing the App Store
Apple tells TechCrunch Cal AI was removed not for web payments alone, but for deceptive billing, manipulative tactics, and App Store rule violations.
SusHi Tech Tokyo isn’t a conference — it’s a deal room with 60,000 people
When 60,000 attendees descend on Tokyo Big Sight April 27–29, the headline numbers are hard to ignore: 750 startup exhibitors, 151 sessions, city leaders from 49 countries. But the stat that tells you what kind of event this actually is? It’s 10,000 facilitated business meetings — brokered, booked, and tracked before most attendees even land.
ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text
ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.
Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber model, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’
The AI industry’s mudslinging continues.
Avoid These Sleep Mistakes That Are Sabotaging Your Performance
Sleep is often treated as optional in entrepreneurship — something to sacrifice in pursuit of growth.
How to Build a Business That Can Be Taken Apart and Rebuilt in a Weekend
The “Lego” strategy shows how to design a business as modular, interchangeable parts — so you can unplug, swap or rebuild systems like marketing, operations or sales without breaking the whole company.