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Defying industry-wide layoffs, Penn is focusing on ‘the next 1,000 people that we’re going to hire.’Read More

The AI boom needs colossal amounts of electricity. That has turned fusion, forever mocked as “30 years away,” into one of the hottest bets in tech. The best-funded player just raised another $1 billion. Commonwealth Fusion Systems, based in Massachusetts, said the round takes its total to $4 billion, roughly 30% of all the money […]

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Most satellite startups are racing to build smaller. K2 Space is going the other way, on purpose. Investors just handed it $500 million to keep going bigger. K2 raised a $500 million Series D at a $6.8 billion valuation, it said on Thursday. Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ led the round, with Alphabet’s CapitalG, Lightspeed and […]

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We transferred an idea from engineering to culture, but it’s incomplete.

If you build a watch that doesn’t tell time, it’s fair to say it doesn’t work.

But when a critic says, “that joke didn’t work,” after seeing a comic perform to a raucous audience, what they probably mean is, “that didn’t work for me.”

The problem might not be the comic. It might be the critic.

“It’s not for you,” is a useful, almost essential way to navigate the creation of our cultural work. If you say it too often to the people you were seeking to serve, your work needs improvement. But when you say it to a critic you never intended to please, you’re opening the door to serving the people you do care about.

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Reese’s Oreo, Instacart, Monzo, BMW, Yahoo, and more are behind the week’s most notable ads.Read More

Amid 60 Minutes controversies, sources explain the editorial workflow of a typical story to TVNewser.Read More

BYD sells more electric cars than anyone. Next month, it wants to sell you one using a robot. China’s biggest EV maker will unveil its first humanoid robot in August, at its Di Space experience centres in Zhengzhou, the company told the South China Morning Post. It will be a working prototype, not a concept, […]

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Microsoft has a fix for the growing pile of Copilots you are meant to use. It wants to stuff them all into a single app. On its earnings call this week, chief executive Satya Nadella confirmed Microsoft is building a Copilot “super app.” It merges chat, coding, the Cowork research tool and Microsoft’s new autonomous […]

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Want to grow on Instagram but dread the idea of filming yourself on camera every day? Wondering if there’s a content format that drives real followers and revenue without requiring you to become a full-time video creator? In this article, you’ll discover how to use Instagram carousels to build a loyal following, generate leads, and […]

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The Federal Trade Commission is suing Hims & Hers, accusing the telehealth company of sharing customers’ sensitive health information with advertising platforms including Meta and Snap. The complaint, filed on 29 July and joined by Utah and California, also alleges the company charged people without proper consent and made subscriptions deliberately hard to cancel. The […]

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