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'I have a chip on my shoulder.' Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup Phia to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name'

Phoebe Gates wants to build her AI shopping company while keeping one thing out of her pitch deck: her last name. The 23-year-old youngest daughter of billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates and philanthropist Melinda French Gates has raised more than $43 million for Phia, which is now valued at around $185 million.

Xteink’s tiny e-readers are getting access to free books through Libby

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We’re Reaching Peak Camera with the Sony A7R VI

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When housing is unaffordable, this artist’s device makes pedaling harder

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Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu says AI and liberal democracy share the same crisis: 'there is a tendency to escalate everything'

Daron Acemoglu is frustrated by the artificial intelligence debate — and not because the MIT economist thinks the technology is dangerous. Although he does think that.

"There's no point": AI forces college students to rethink their major

They're worried about what's coming after graduation.

The toolbelt is becoming Gen Z's career flex

Young workers are betting that fixing the physical world still needs human hands.

AI isn’t changing how companies work. It’s changing what a company is

Stephen Messer is co-founder of Collective[i] and Intelligence.com, and has been writing about the AI economy on Artificial CommonSense at reloadnyc. This column synthesizes much of Messer’s recent writing, and is related to several others, including “What It Means to Be AI-First,” “The Oldest Trick in Management Just Stopped Working,” “The Weakest Link,” “The Next Computer Is Alive,” and “The Death of Privacy. The Rise of Unbreakable Communications.”

Her childhood photo. Thousands of explicit images. One woman’s nightmare.

When Jane Doe 4, as she is identified in legal filings, arrived at her parents’ house in Wyoming to set up a family party earlier this year, the familiar street in her small hometown was filled with state and local law enforcement.

Sam Altman says 4 years could be too long for college: 'The way the world has evolved, college just shouldn't be as long as it is'

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman left Stanford after two years. He says now that staying longer would have had "vastly diminishing returns."

The AI boss at a San Francisco store just fired its first human

Andon Labs, which is experimenting with letting an AI have majority control over a retail store, said that it fired an employee with good reason.

China poised to lift travel ban on Manus founders

Chief executive Xiao Hong plans to return to Singapore as AI company nears resolution of Meta separation