After resigning as president of Google’s parent company Alphabet in 2019, co-founder Sergey Brin is back at Google — and working on AI “pretty much every day,” he confirmed for the first time in a conversation with Climate Corporation co-founder David Friedberg earlier this week. In a fireside chat at the All-In Summit, Friedberg asked...
SpaceX set its riskiest trip into motion on Tuesday with the launch of its five-day Polaris Dawn mission. Four civilians, including fintech billionaire Jared Isaacman who funded the trip, retired Air Force pilot Scott ‘Kidd’ Poteet, and SpaceX engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis, are on board the spacecraft, which launched from Launch Complex 39A...
The iPhone 16 may have been the focal point of Apple’s Monday event, but Apple had another announcement to pair with its new $799 smartphone — a free update to the $250 AirPods Pro 2, which Apple refreshed last year, to make the earbuds double as hearing aids. “We’re really excited to announce that this...
AI can write emails. AI can write songs. AI can suggest writing improvements that go beyond spelling and grammar to word choice. As big tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Apple roll out their latest AI features, one use case of AI keeps coming up: AI can write. It’s sometimes so good that job seekers...
Apple just announced its first AI-centered iPhone. Apple introduced its new iPhone 16 lineup on Monday, with the usual Plus, Pro, and Pro Max variations, highlighting that the phones are compatible with AI-powered features like AI writing to help draft emails and texts. The phones include a new physical Camera Control button, right below the...
Gary Vaynerchuk is known across social media as Gary Vee, a serial entrepreneur worth over $200 million. Now he’s launching a four-month accelerator to transform founders from within — for a price. The accelerator, called vYve (pronounced “vive” like the number “five”), is running through Vaynerchuk’s group of companies, VaynerX. It gives a small batch...
Nearly half of the employees currently working at “buy now, pay later” startup Klarna could be replaced by AI in the next few years. Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told The Financial Times last week that the company aims to almost halve its workforce within the next few years, from 3,800 people to 2,000. Instead of...
Is AI worth paying four times as much for a Canva subscription? Design software service Canva is increasing membership prices for users globally, with some U.S. users reporting on X that the cost of five-person team subscriptions has gone up from $120 per year to $500 per year. Canva reportedly told users in an email...
Reddit grew for nearly two decades before going public in March at around a $6.5 billion valuation. Though the social media forum site now boasts 91 million daily active users, its success was not a certainty. In fact, Reddit’s co-founders were rejected by startup accelerator Y Combinator at the start of their entrepreneurial journey. “So,...
Nvidia, the AI chipmaker with an over $3 trillion market value, faced high expectations heading into its second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. Analysts positioned the call as a “market mover” that would either justify Nvidia’s high valuation or undermine it. One even said the call could be more impactful to the markets than Federal Reserve...