5 of the Strangest Products at CES 2026, Including One That Lets You ‘Chat’ With Your Cat
Away from the corporate big wigs, here are some creative ideas bootstrapped entrepreneurs are pitching.
Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. A few months before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024, Daron Acemoglu published a paper that earned him few fans in Silicon Valley. Contrary to what Big Tech…
Private Capital Isn’t Just for the 1% — How Entrepreneurs Can Invest Like the Rich
Many entrepreneurs know how to raise private capital — but far fewer understand how to invest it.
How Quilt solved the heat pump’s biggest challenge
Quilt’s heat pumps are built containing a suite of sensors, which have delivered mountains of data that allow its engineers to wring added performance out of its systems.
WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features, including member tags
You can choose a tag that gives others in the group chat more context about who you are.
Spotify now lets you share what you’re streaming in real time with friends
You can tap a friend’s listening activity to play the track, save it, open the menu, or react with an emoji.
Women Aren’t Less Ambitious — They’re Just Done Playing By Old Rules
Here are three ways I am redefining leadership on my own terms, along with so many other women.
Warner Bros. Discovery rejects Paramount’s bid again, calls it a ‘leveraged buyout’
The studio’s board unanimously rejected Paramount Skydance’s revised $108.4 billion bid, calling the proposal a “leveraged buyout” that would saddle the company with $87 billion in debt.
Deploying a hybrid approach to Web3 in the AI era
When the concept of “Web 3.0” first emerged about a decade ago the idea was clear: Create a more user-controlled internet that lets you do everything you can now, except without servers or intermediaries to manage the flow of information. Where Web2, which emerged in the early 2000s, relies on centralized systems to store data…
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Spotify lowers monetization threshold for video podcasts
Spotify is dropping the minimum episode requirement to three, minimum consumption hours to 2,000, and engaged audience member threshold to 1,000 over the last 30 days.