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Inside Zipline’s high-tech drone factory where delivery innovation takes flight

If you think drones are noisy in flight, try building and testing them. During a visit last month to the drone startup Zipline’s factory in South San Francisco, California, industrial noise welled up in corners of the facility—the roar of a wind tunnel, the rhythmic clack of a test rig simulating motor casing wear, and other mechanical sounds in a symphony of engineering.

Zipline has to subject its delivery drones to that kind of abus

How to use AI to find your next job

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I’ve been curious lately: How might AI help my former students—and so many others looking for new jobs—in a challenging and complicated market?

My conclusion: AI tools can serve as patient assista

Using AI at work requires confidence. Here’s how to build it

The Little Engine That Could wasn’t the most powerful train, but she believed in herself. The story goes that, as she set off to climb a steep mountain, she repeated: “I think I can, I think I can.”

That simple phrase from a children’s story still holds a lesson for today’s business world—especially when it comes to artificial int

5 read-it-later alternatives now that Pocket is shutting down

It’s official: Mozilla has announced that its extremely handy read-it-later app Pocket will be shutting down on July 8, 2025, with user data exports available until October 8, 2025.

If this leaves you looking for a new home for your saved articles, videos, and web pages, the good news is you’ve still got plenty of excellent options.

Here are five solid alter

‘LLMs are ego-reinforcing glazing-machines’: This subreddit is banning users for AI-induced delusions

The moderators behind a pro-artificial intelligence subreddit say they have been banning users who appear to be experiencing chatbot-fueled delusions.

“LLMs today are ego-reinforcing glazing-machines that reinforce unstable and narcissistic personalities to convince them that they’ve made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or be

Will crypto replace banking? The Trump administration can’t decide

Last year, Donald Trump took the stage of the ">Las Vegas Bitcoin Conference to worship at the altar of cryptocurrency. He said he would fire Gary Gensler, the former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission who led a yearslong crackdown on crypto fraud. The audience roared. He ended on a rousing note: “We will make America and Bitcoin bigger, better, stronger, richer, freer, and greater than ever before.” 

Some crypto

I tried doing everything with AI on a Pixel 9a, but it didn’t go as planned

Going into my time reviewing the Google Pixel 9a, I had this grand idea to transform myself into “AI Man.”

Google has made a big to-do about how it’s reimagining Android with AI at the core, and the $500 Pixel 9a is now the cheapest entry point into Google’s Gemini AI ecosystem. In the past

Jeffrey Katzenberg bets big on AI video ads with a $15.5 million investment in Creatify

Jeffrey Katzenberg has long backed ambitious ventures—from cofounding animation studio DreamWorks to championing digital innovation through his investment firm WndrCo. Now, he’s supporting a bold new vision for the future of advertising. WndrCo has co-led a $15.5 million Series A investment in Creatify, an AI video ad platform that has quietly reached $9 million in annual recurring revenue just 18 months after launch.

Co-led alongside Kindred Vent

23andMe’s Anne Wojcicki moves to reopen auction   with support from a Fortune 500 company

(Corrects paragraph 3 to say 23andMe filed for bankruptcy in March, not April)

The founder of 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki, has asked a U.S. judge to reopen an auction for the genetic testing comp


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