What 25 Years in Ecommerce Taught Me About Building Businesses That Last
Sustainable growth comes from knowing your strengths, nurturing collaboration and building trusted relationships that extend far beyond your walls.
The State of AI: Chatbot companions and the future of our privacy
Welcome back to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. Every Monday, writers from both publications debate one aspect of the generative AI revolution reshaping global power. In this week’s conversation MIT Technology Review’s senior reporter for features and investigations, Eileen Guo, and FT tech correspondent Melissa…
Bending Spoons to acquire AOL
Wednesday’s news marks a new chapter for AOL, which was once one of the most recognized brands on the internet, known for its email service and “You’ve Got Mail” notification.
ElevenLabs CEO says AI audio models will be ‘commoditized’ over time
ElevenLabs’ founder Mati Staniszewski said that, in the short term, AI audio models were still the “biggest advantage and the biggest step change you can have today.”
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: How to watch the Startup Battlefield finale, Cluely, Solana, SF’s Mayor
If you’re not able to attend in person, the next best thing is to check out our livestream of the Disrupt Stage. Tune in right here starting now!
It’s official. Fubo is combining with Hulu Live TV
Fubo and Disney have officially completed the transaction to combine the live sports platform with Hulu Live TV.
How AI labs use Mercor to get the data companies won’t share
Mercor CEO Brendan Foody has built a $10 billion empire freeing up valuable data from legacy industries, and making it available to AI labs.
Wall Street Is Losing Its Edge. Here’s Where the Smart Money Is Moving Now.
Stocks are stale, crypto lost its sparkle, and bonds are boring. Here’s where the real action (and fun) is now.
Nvidia becomes first public company worth $5 trillion
With a market cap of $5 trillion, Nvidia is now worth more than the aggregated stock markets of all countries, apart from the United States, China and Japan.
Exclusive eBook: We did the math on AI’s energy footprint.
In this exclusive subscirber-only ebook you’ll learn how the emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. by James O’Donnell and Casey Crownhart May 20, 2025 Table of contents Related stories:
Building a high performance data and AI organization (2nd edition)
Four years is a lifetime when it comes to artificial intelligence. Since the first edition of this study was published in 2021, AI’s capabilities have been advancing at speed, and the advances have not slowed since generative AI’s breakthrough. For example, multimodality— the ability to process information not only as text but also as audio,…