What Growing Startups Get Wrong About CRM Software, and How to Fix It
Why CRM software fails in growing startups and how fixing process, not tools, makes it work.
AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I headed 30 miles south of San Francisco to a hotel in Mountain View, California, to join some of the most accomplished, and some of the most promising, AI…
As YouTube grows on TV, it eyes more interactive video across formats
YouTube’s hiring across roles, partnerships, and a Bengaluru hub shows how it is building out its TV strategy.
Intel Just Signed On to Elon Musk’s Massive AI Chip Project — Here’s What They’ll Be Building
The partnership aims to produce 1 terawatt per year of compute power across two massive chip factories in Texas.
This $500,000 Corporate Retreat to Honduras Went Horribly Wrong. ‘We Had to Eat a Dead Tarantula’
Plex flew 120 employees to a tropical paradise for team building. What followed was a comedy of errors and the CEO hospitalized with E. coli.
The ‘Sneaky’ Ways Companies Are Making You Pay More — Without Raising Prices
As fuel prices spike and supply chain costs surge, businesses are finding creative ways to offset the pain — and not all of them are obvious to customers.
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Atlassian launches visual AI tools and third-party agents in Confluence
Confluence users can now create visual assets within the software in addition to new third-party agents working with Lovable, Replit, and Gamma.
The Download: water threats in Iran and AI’s impact on what entrepreneurs make
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. Desalination plants in the Middle East are increasingly vulnerable As the conflict in Iran has escalated, a crucial resource is under fire: the desalinization technology that supplies water in the region. President…
X is rolling out automatic translation and photo editing powered by Grok
New automatic translations and photo editing on X are powered by the company’s flagship AI model.
How nuclear batteries could speed the race to fusion power
Avalanche Energy is working on an DARPA project to build a new class of materials capable of turning damaging radiation into electricity.