Rémi Louf, CEO of AI startup .txt, runs his company from a castle in Bourron-Marlotte, France, paying €600 a month for an office with a moat. The 15-person distributed team benefits from the serene en…
AI startups and Big Tech companies are shifting from 'tokenmaxxing'—encouraging maximum AI usage—to 'modelmaxxing,' a cost-saving strategy of routing simple tasks to cheaper models and complex ones to…
Rilla CEO Sebastian Jimenez pays each employee $18,000 a year to live within a 10-minute bike ride of the company's Williamsburg office, aiming to reduce friction and maximize flow state. The AI start…
A Draup analysis of 2.85 million job listings from June 2025 to June 2026 found that AI is not reducing demand for tech workers but is shifting required skills toward judgment, design, and accountabil…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has built a nine-figure real estate portfolio with as many as 20 properties worldwide, including a $120 million former monastery in Snowmass, Colorado, and a $46 million mansion…
President Donald Trump said he expects Elon Musk to donate SpaceX stock to Trump Accounts, the US government's savings program for children, despite a 'little dispute' over electric vehicle subsidies.…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told Joe Rogan that the US remains the best place for startups due to its risk-seeking culture and encouragement of new ideas, despite debates over the fading American …
Meta named Denise Moreno as its new chief marketing officer, replacing Alex Schultz, who becomes the company's first chief data officer amid Meta's increased AI spending. Moreno, a 17-year Meta vetera…
A Google employee who has raised her 8-year-old daughter with nearly no access to technology is now grappling with how to introduce AI intentionally after her daughter asked her to use ChatGPT to answ…
Netflix adds 11 movies in July, including 'The Hunger Games' franchise, 'Spider-Man: Homecoming,' and 'Tár.' The lineup features Oscar-winning performances and cult classics like 'White Chicks.'…
Autonomous construction bots from Built Robotics are building solar infrastructure for Meta's Hyperion AI data center in Louisiana. The 72-ton machines work 12-hour days driving steel beams, handling …
Palantir published a 9-point manifesto on X advocating for 'AI sovereignty,' urging companies to retain data in-house and criticizing 'tokenmaxxing' as false progress. The post warns against outsourci…
Michael Burry, the investor known for predicting the 2008 housing crisis, revealed new bearish bets against Tesla, Nvidia, Caterpillar, Applied Materials, and the iShares Semiconductor ETF, warning of…
Luxury real estate agents are spending tens of thousands of dollars on cosmetic procedures, designer clothes, and skincare routines to maintain an image they say is essential for closing multimillion-…
Six top CMOs, including American Eagle's Craig Brommers and Chime's Vineet Mehra, are developing strategies to ensure their brands appear in AI-powered search results from platforms like Gemini and Ch…
Anthropic restored general access to its Fable 5 AI model after negotiations with the Trump administration lifted export controls, and also restored access to its more advanced Mythos 5 model to vette…
Andrew Lissimore, founder of e-commerce brand Headphones.com, launched startup Lantern to help e-commerce brands optimize their products for AI-powered search results. Lantern raised $3.1 million in s…
AI strategist Sol Rashidi fired half of her AI agents after spending more time supervising them than doing useful work, a phenomenon called 'botsitting' that a Glean report says costs white-collar wor…
Israeli micro drama app Shortical raised $100 million in financing from PvX Partners, highlighting investor enthusiasm for AI-driven content. The company plans to produce 20 hours of AI-generated show…
AI founders, early employees, and researchers are cashing out billions in equity and spending on analog status symbols like luxury watches, driving a US luxury upswing. High-end mechanical watches fro…