What Every Founder Gets Wrong About Scaling — And the 4 Principles That Fix It
Growth exposes every weakness in how you operate — here are the four principles I return to whenever the business starts to feel out of control.
The Download: dead robot friends and the “censorship-industrial complex”
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. What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies? When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him how to calm down when he was anxious or mad. Six years later, she…
PR Isn’t a Favor — It’s a Relationship, and Most Founders Ghost It
PR only works if you treat it like a relationship you invest in consistently, not a transaction you request occasionally.
Sephora Is Rolling Out ‘Quiet Hours’ Worldwide — Here’s What That Sounds Like
Lower music, dimmed screens, less stimulation. Sephora joins Walmart, Target and AMC in a growing accessibility trend.
Could This Sport Become the Next Pickleball? Entrepreneurs Are Betting Big That It Will.
Padel courts have grown from 227 to 1,000 in three years, and everyone from fashion execs and coffee founders want in.
A Florida Pastor Is Suing OpenAI, Claiming ChatGPT Gave Him ‘Extremely Dangerous’ Medical Advice
It’s reportedly the first lawsuit of its kind, raising hard questions about who’s liable when AI gives bad health advice.
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Ford bets on Apple for its next-generation of EVs
Ford is the first automaker to use a new set of developer tools that will let it embed Apple Maps navigation and mapping directly into its vehicles’ infotainment systems.
The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI
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. The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags During a heat wave on July 3, New York State’s grid imported enough electricity from Canada to meet about…
How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines
Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered proteins rather than synthetic chemistry (which are often used to…
Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
“I don’t think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation,” one expert told TechCrunch.