I Built a Business In My Garage, Got Rejected On Shark Tank — Then Sold It to Amazon for $1 Billion
The product Jamie Siminoff developed in 2011 would become his most lucrative yet.
The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off
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. A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth last month with a huge claim: it had solved a mathematical bottleneck…
Why This 30-Year-Old Vanderbilt Valedictorian Left Her Big Law Job to Start an AI Company
Logan Brown chose not to spend decades climbing the legal ladder.
Google’s new 1.9GW clean energy deal includes massive 100-hour battery
Form Energy’s iron-air batteries will store wind and solar power to keep the data center running 24/7.
CarGurus data breach affects 12.5 million accounts
Automotive marketplace CarGurus was the target of a data breach in which the names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses of millions of customers were stolen.
Anthropic won’t budge as Pentagon escalates AI dispute
The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday to loosen AI guardrails or face potential penalties, escalating a high-stakes dispute that raises questions about government leverage, vendor dependence, and investor confidence in defense tech.
Discord delays global rollout of age verification after backlash
The company added that 90% of users won’t need to verify their age and will be able to keep using Discord as usual.
Instagram head pressed on lengthy delay to launch teen safety features, like a nudity filter, court filing reveals
An email chain with Instagram head Adam Mosseri indicated the company was aware of teen safety issues in DMs in 2018, but didn’t launch its unwanted nudity filter until 2024.
More startups are hitting $10M ARR in 3 months than ever before
AI has brought the startup world the rise of startups that instantly hit multimillion ARR. Stripe revealed some data that shows how common this has become.
Reese Witherspoon Has Some Surprising Career Advice: Stop Chasing Your Dreams — And Do This Instead
According to the actress and entrepreneur, the path to meaningful success is less about dreams and more about self-knowledge.
Instagram’s TV app is launching on Google TV devices
By bringing Reels to TVs, Instagram looking to better compete with YouTube, which largely dominates the TV space.