Thinking About Scaling From a Single Unit to Multi-Unit Ownership? Here’s What You Need to Know.
Scaling from a single franchise location to multiple units demands new systems, deeper trust and a shift in how you lead.
Shifting to AI model customization is an architectural imperative
In the early days of large language models (LLMs), we grew accustomed to massive 10x jumps in reasoning and coding capability with every new model iteration. Today, those jumps have flattened into incremental gains. The exception is domain-specialized intelligence, where true step-function improvements are still the norm. When a model is fused with an organization’s…
Moroccan founder raises $4.2M for her YC-backed startup building the next layer of AI search
ZeroEntropy is serving up retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) through an API. It’s landed Initialized, a16z Scout and a long list of angels, as investors.
The Download: a conversation with Karen Hao, and how did life begin?
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. Inside OpenAI’s empire: A conversation with Karen Hao In a wide-ranging Roundtables conversation for MIT Technology Review subscribers, journalist and author Karen Hao recently spoke about her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams…
Can’t Get an Email Back? These 7 Tips Will Make Sure You Get a Response Every Time
Whether you’re trying to get someone to email you back, slide out of the DM void or simply have a real human moment amid all the noise, these tips will get people to actually respond.
How to protect your cell phone number from SIM swap attacks
These carrier security settings can prevent your phone number from being hijacked or stolen.
Inside OpenAI’s empire: A conversation with Karen Hao
In a wide-ranging Roundtables conversation for MIT Technology Review subscribers, AI journalist and author Karen Hao spoke about her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. She talked with executive editor Niall Firth about how she first covered the company in 2020 while on staff at MIT Technology Review, and…
Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots
Hugging Face is releasing two versions of its desktop robot meant for designing and coding AI applications.
European VC breaks taboo by investing in pure defense tech from Ukraine’s war zones
With a fundraising target of €25 million, Darkstar’s goal is to help startups bring battle-tested products to military customers both in Ukraine and throughout Europe.
Rivian spinoff Also raises another $200M to build e-bikes and more
Also, the micromobility startup that spun out of Rivian this year, was raised $200 million from Greenoaks Capital.
LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say
AI infrastructure startup LangChain is raising a new round at about $1 billion valuation led by IVP.