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Boeing is selling its air taxi startups to Archer Aviation
Boeing is selling three of its electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) subsidiaries to Archer Aviation, in addition to taking an undisclosed stake in the San Jose-based company. The subsidiares to be acquired by Archer include Wisk Aero, which has been developing an autonomous electric aircraft; SkyGrid, which is building air traffic management systems to […]
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The Rise of the 1 am Job Interview
An AI interview is increasingly the first step of a hiring process. Since there’s no human on the other end, candidates are scheduling them whenever—even deep into the night.
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When a Human Is Your Integration
Most businesses don't buy disconnected systems on purpose. They arrive one tool at a time. You start with a spreadsheet. You add a CRM because the spreadsheet stopped scaling. Accounting software because the taxman insisted. A shipping portal because you started sending parcels. Each choice was sensible on its own day. Then one morning you look up and realize that none of these tools talk to each other — and the thing holding them together is a person. Someone reads a number off one screen and types it into another. That person is your integration. And that's a cost you're paying every day without ever seeing it on an invoice. The Cost You Don't Get Billed For Here's the trap. The cost of a disconnected system doesn't show up anywhere you look. It's not a subscription. It's not a line item. It's hidden inside a job title. Someone on your team spends the first hour of every day taking yesterday's orders and copying them, one at a time, from the checkout into the accounting system, then into the CRM, then into the shipping portal. It feels like work, because it is. Nobody questions it, because it's always been done that way. But watch what actually happens as you grow. At ten orders a day, that copying is an hour. At thirty, it's most of a morning. At sixty, it's a full-time role whose entire purpose is retyping data that already exists somewhere else. You never made a decision to create that role. It grew on its own, one order at a time, and now it sets a limit: you can only take as many orders as one person can hand-transcribe before they burn out or start making mistakes. That's the real shape of the cost. It isn't the minutes. It's the ceiling. When a human is your integration, your growth is capped at the throughput of that human — and you'll experience the cap not as a cost, but as a vague sense that "we can't handle more right now." Where the Errors Live The second cost is quieter and more expensive: the mistakes. Anything a person copies by hand between two sy
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These AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes
A new generation of philanthropists made rich by artificial intelligence are preparing to give away their vast wealth. What should we make of a multi-billion-dollar pinky promise?
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Buc-ee’s dodges John Oliver to sue another small business
Buc-ee's became something of a viral sensation during the World Cup, but it has a troubling history of suing small gas stations and convenience stores. On a recent episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver literally begged the company to sue him for selling merch featuring his squirrel mascot, Mr. Nutterbutter, with branding that reads […]
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The Chinese Philosopher Americans Can’t Stop Fighting About
Yiyang Zhuge was already an intellectual celebrity in China. Her viral interview with Christopher Nolan made her famous in the US—and quickly turned her into a political Rorschach test.
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Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been
The mayor of New York City has assembled a crew of Silicon Valley and United States Digital Service veterans to overhaul city services with better software.
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The Hottest New AI Chatbot Is Just a Guy Answering Your Questions
WIRED spoke with Tucker Bryant, an artist and former Google employee who created ChatTJB to get people to reflect on the “strange moment” we’re in.
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One of China’s Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment
Security researchers say that Kimi K3, an open-weight model from China, wandered off to the internet in an attempt to cheat on a test it was given.
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Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents
The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.
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Flock Highlighted Police Departments Using Its Tech. Now 4 Face Allegations of Misuse
Flock posted videos on its YouTube channel highlighting at least four police departments whose officers have faced allegations of misusing the company’s tech.
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ICE’s DNA Collection Increases, SpaceX’s Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, and the AI Backlash Grows
In today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss how ICE has been collecting DNA samples of people with no criminal convictions, including children, which end up in an FBI database indefinitely.
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Nintendo beats earnings thanks to US tariff refunds it won’t share with gamers
Nintendo has smashed its first-quarter earnings estimates for the fiscal year, bolstered by strong games sales and US tariff refunds, though its customers likely won't receive anything from the latter. In its latest financial results, Nintendo reports that operating profits soared to 142.5 billion yen (about $902 million) between April 1st and June 30th, compared […]
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Two Fossil Fuel Companies Are Betting Big on Data Centers
Chevron and Williams are big winners in the race to power artificial intelligence as they build out gas-fired power plants and pipelines.
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AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming
Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.
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Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop
Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.
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Disney gives TikTok creators official access to Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar characters
Disney is introducing fan-created TikTok content to its Disney Plus app in its latest attempt to break into short-form creator videos. The Walt Disney Company announced today that it's partnering with TikTok to bring "an expansive collection of thoughtfully curated Disney-centric fan-created content" to the Verts video feed it launched on Disney Plus earlier this […]
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SpaceX is coming for T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon
SpaceX is preparing to build a terrestrial mobile network to "acquire quite a few" of the customers now subscribed to T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon. The message to compete head-to-head with the US carriers was delivered by SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell and CEO Elon Musk during the Q&A section of the company's first earnings call. "The […]
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Best Project Management Software for Startups: Match the Tool to How You Work
Search "best project management software for startups" and you get the same dozen names every time: Trello, Asana, ClickUp, Notion, Linear, monday.com, Basecamp. Ranking them by feature count tells you almost nothing, because they are not really competing for the same job. The useful question for a startup is not which tool has the most features. It is two narrower ones: does your work run through engineering or through the whole company, and does per-seat pricing or flat-rate pricing fit a headcount that is about to change? Answer those and the shortlist collapses to two or three. The split that actually decides it Two forks matter more than any side-by-side feature grid. The first is who the tool is built for. Issue trackers like Linear are built around the engineering workflow (issues, cycles, a keyboard-first interface) and feel wrong the moment a marketer or a founder tries to run a launch plan in them. General work tools like Asana, ClickUp, monday.com and Trello are built for any team, which makes them flexible but also less opinionated about how software actually ships. The second fork is the shape of the bill. Almost everything in this category charges per seat per month, so the cost scales directly with hiring. A small number, Basecamp most notably, offer a flat rate that does not. For a company planning to double headcount inside a year, that difference can outweigh any feature comparison. If your team is mostly engineers For an engineering-led startup, an issue tracker usually beats a general project tool. Linear's free plan includes unlimited members, two teams and up to 250 issues, which is enough to run a small product team before paying anything; its Basic plan is $10 per user per month billed yearly and lifts the cap to unlimited issues and five teams. The trade-off is scope: Linear is deliberately narrow, so non-engineering work does not fit it well. The larger, more familiar alternative is Jira, which startup roundups still name as the default for
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AI Influencers Are Heading Into Uncharted Territory
Some creators fear the EU AI Act’s regulatory chaos will upend their lucrative businesses. Others are owning it by incorporating AI transparency into their creative process.