Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd is stepping down from her role at the dating app she founded nearly a decade ago, the company announced on Monday.
Lidiane Jones, who is currently CEO of the workplace-messaging platform Slack, will succeed Wolfe Herd starting January 2. Wolfe Herd, meanwhile, will transition to executive chair.
“The last decade has been completely transformational for me as a human,” Wolfe Herd, who also cofounded Tinder, said in an interview wi
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has announced the beta release of its AI chatbot, called Grok. Grok is designed to be a competitor to the reigning chatbot king, ChatGPT, with Musk and xAI noting that the chatbot is designed to be more sarcastic than other chatbots. Here’s what you need to know about Grok.
- What is Grok? It’s the name of the chatbot that xAI just released in beta. Grok is based on large language model (LLM)
They say time is money. They also say you’ve got to spend money to make money. Ergo: You’ve got to spend money to save time, right?
Not so fast! These six free Windows apps aren’t scaled-back versions of paid products—they’re truly free, truly powerful, and can truly save you some serious time each day.
The cars, cellphones, computers and televisions that people in the U.S. use every day require metals like copper, cobalt and platinum to build. Demand from the electronics industry for these metals is only rising, and companies are constantly searching for new places on Earth to mine them.
Scientists estimate that lots of these metals exist thousands of miles beneath Earth’s surface, in its molten core, but that’s far too deep and hot to mine. Instead, some compan
Call it the Beatles’ third law: For every song that’s become an indelible part of the Western pop canon, there’s an equal and opposite “What if?” What if they’d mended the band’s fractured foundation in the ’60s? What if more of them had made it to old age? How many more songs could there have been?
We now have a tantalizing hint at an answer in the form of “Now and Then,” a new single being billed as the final Be
After John Furner, president and CEO of Walmart U.S., told Bloomberg in October that GLP-1s, a class of medications prescribed for weight loss—which include Ozempic, Mounjaro, and Wegovy—are changing how shoppers behave, resulting in their buying slightly less food, shares for Mondelez (maker of Oreo), PepsiCo, and Hershey’s tumbled.
Also last month, Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider said in an earnings briefing that the company was already preparing for the increa
Kashmir Hill is a technology and privacy reporter at the New York Times. Hill has worked and written for a number of publications, including The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Gizmodo, Popular Science, Forbes, and others.
Below, Hill shares five key insights from her new book, Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It. Listen to the audio version—read by Hill herself—in the Next Bi
If you work in the fields of manufacturing, logistics, aviation, or city planning, you’ve probably heard the term “digital twin.” And if you work in healthcare, climate change forecasting, or any of a number of other industries, you’re about to hear it pop up more and more as the decade progresses. In fact, the digital twin market, which was valued at just $11.6 billion in 2022, is expected to be a half-a-trillion-dollar industry by 2032. Companies such as Amazon W
In May, Sweetgreen opened a long-awaited location in Naperville, Illinois, about 30 miles outside of Chicago. Like many of Sweetgreen’s 220 locations, it’s bright, with neon signage and smiling employees. Unlike any of them, however, it’s staffed by a salad-making robot, which Sweetgreen calls its Infinite Kitchen.
The robot dispenses salad ingredients by shooting perfect portions from tubes into bowls. The company spent years developing the tech. It took two ye
This week, President Joe Biden issued a historic executive order on artificial intelligence in pursuit of what his administration calls “safe, secure, and trustworthy” AI. The milestone seems imperative given the technology’s rapid evolution and adoption across industries, and a regulatory gauntlet that will ultimately impact millions of Americans. That includes repercussions for the health and biotech industries leveraging AI to innovate as part of a health system that m