‘American Consumers Are the Long-Term Losers’: Spirit Airlines CEO Shares Harrowing Outlook on Aviation Industry
Spirit CEO Ted Christie commented on the company’s failed JetBlue merger in its Q1 2024 earnings call.
Pairing live support with accurate AI outputs
A live agent spends hours each week manually documenting routine interactions. Another combs through multiple knowledge bases to find the right solution, scrambling to piece it together while the customer waits on hold. A third types out the same response they’ve written dozens of times before. These repetitive tasks can be draining, leaving less time…
This Mother and Daughter Were ‘Kind of Fringe Weirdos’ When They Started an Uncommon Business in Their Garage. Now They’re in Major Retailers — and Victoria Beckham Is a Fan.
Jenefer and Melissa Palmer’s slow-and-steady approach to growth helped their skincare and body care brand OSEA thrive over decades — but lately they’ve been taking things up a notch.
TechCrunch Minute: When did iPads get as expensive as MacBooks?
Apple’s iPad event had a lot to like. New iPads with new chips and new sizes, a new Apple Pencil, and even some software updates. If you are a big fan of Apple hardware, well, it was probably a good day. Now you can get an updated and thinner iPad Pro, if that’s your jam. But […]
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Google DeepMind’s new AlphaFold can model a much larger slice of biological life
Google DeepMind has released an improved version of its biology prediction tool, AlphaFold, that can predict the structures not only of proteins but of nearly all the elements of biological life. It’s a development that could help accelerate drug discovery and other scientific research. The tool is currently being used to experiment with identifying everything…
A Leadership Shortage Is Coming. Here’s What Needs to Happen to Prevent It.
Pay bumps and fancy titles are no longer enough to entice top talent. Management can be a headache and organizations need to make changes. Otherwise, there won’t be anyone left to lead. Here’s what needs to be done.
Gen Z Doesn’t Care About Your Billboards — They Care About Authenticity. Here’s How Business Leaders Can Gain Gen Z’s Trust and Loyalty
Gen Z’s buying power has reached a staggering $360 billion, and they spend over seven hours a day looking at screens. With its influence on the consumer landscape only intensifying, Gen Z is a critical audience for any brand seeking long-term customer loyalty.
Bye-bye bots: Altera’s game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt
Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI agents. The company announced Wednesday that it raised $9 million in an oversubscribed seed round, co-led by First Spark Ventures (Eric Schmidt’s deep-tech fund) and Patron (the seed […]
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$450M for Noname, two billion-dollar rounds, and good news for crypto startups
This morning on Equity, we have good news for crypto founders, notes on Akamai’s $450M acquisition of Noname, and billion-dollar deals from Wiz and Wayve.
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Google Deepmind debuts huge AlphaFold update and free proteomics-as-a-service web app
Google Deepmind has taken the wraps off a new version AlphaFold, their transformative machine learning model that predicts the shape and behavior of proteins. AlphaFold 3 is not only more accurate, but predicts interactions with other biomolecules, making it a far more versatile research tool — and the company is putting a limited version of […]
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Uber promises member exclusives as Uber One passes $1B run-rate
Uber plans to deliver more perks to Uber One members, like member-exclusive events, in a bid to gain more revenue through subscriptions. “You will see more member-exclusives coming up where members have exclusive access to events and experiences, which will kind of surprise and delight our members,” said Uber chief financial officer Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah Wednesday […]
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