The Biggest Mistake High-Achieving Students Make On College Applications

A student bragged on TikTok that he climbed Kilimanjaro, wrote about it in his essay and got into Yale. Another student thought she could use the same ploy.

Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster

Netris provides software that runs on network switches, and offers a platform that helps neocloud operators reduce the time it takes to go live.

The New AI Skill Is Thinking Like An Editor

The most effective leaders don’t use AI the most—they know how to curate, refine, and reject its output as needed. Here’s how to think like an editor when using AI.

Life At The Speed Of Play Explores AI In Business

Mark Pincus advocates gamification, journaling, rapid experimentation, and AI-assisted innovation for entrepreneurs.

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Why Sequoia And A16z Paid $40 Million For A Plumbing Dispatch Seat

One startup pays cleaners to film your kitchen while another gets paid to run plumbing dispatch. Both are chasing the data the physical world never uploaded.

Agentic AI Rewrites The Playbook As Snowflake And Okta Soar

Snowflake’s blowout quarter and Jensen Huang’s agentic AI case just buried the SaaS is dead trade. Here is the consumption pricing playbook every software CEO needs.

Amazon ups India bet with fresh $13B AI infrastructure investment

Amazon’s latest India investment comes as global tech companies race to expand AI infrastructure in the country.

Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems
Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems

To celebrate its new status as No. 1 in JD Power’s initial quality ranking among mainstream automakers, Ford is opening up about the challenges it has faced in recent years, especially around its reliance on automated systems in production and design. It turns out that those automated systems were not as robust as previously assumed, […]