The Surprising Strategy Smart Leaders Use to Outpace Disruption
In a world where AI is reshaping industries overnight, agility is a leader’s greatest asset. The companies thriving aren’t the fastest or the biggest, but the ones built to adapt.
The Download: squeezing more metal out of aging mines, and AI’s truth crisis
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. Microbes could extract the metal needed for cleantech In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a…
I Took My Side Hustle Full-Time and Made $222,000 Last Year. Here’s How — and Why Sometimes I Work Just 10 Hours a Week.
Carter Osborne launched his side business in 2017 to help with his tuition payments for graduate school.
Starbase injury rates outpace rivals as SpaceX chases its Mars moonshot
SpaceX has been moving at breakneck pace, rapid progress comes at a cost. Worker injury rates at its Starbase facility are almost six times higher than the average, data reveals.
DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results
DuckDuckGo’s new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.
Netflix Co-CEO Says the Company Used AI on a TV Show for the First Time: ‘Completed 10 Times Faster’
Netflix chief Ted Sarandos says audiences were “thrilled” with the AI-generated footage.
With her app Smash, Kesha can be whoever she wants – even a tech CEO
Kesha’s app, Smash, is a community platform for music creators to collaborate.
How These 2 Stanford Students Turned a College Project Into a WNBA Partnership
Amanda Calabrese and Greta Meyer turned a college project into Sequel, the first spiral tampon, now backed by a WNBA partnership with the Indiana Fever.
Why Emotional Branding is Out and Functional Loyalty Is In
Emotional branding is no longer enough. Today’s consumers reward functionality, not just familiarity.
Meta refuses to sign EU’s AI code of practice
Meta will not sign the EU’s new rules, calling the implementation “over-reach”
A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training sets, new research has found. Thousands of images—including identifiable faces—were found in a small subset of DataComp CommonPool, a major AI training set for image generation scraped from…