Superhuman once had a waitlist of more than 450,000 people hoping to try its $30-per-month email app. Now it’s shifting focus toward companies that might subscribe in bulk.
While the app remains available to individuals—still for $30 per month—Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra says most of the startup’s growth comes from teams now. This week, it’s leaning into enterprise use with a suite of new collaborative features, including team-wide read
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It’s a familiar scene: You walk up to your Airbnb, fingers crossed that it’ll look as good as it did in the photos. Unlock the doors and you’ll either sigh in relief or be met with disappointment.
Airbnb is hoping to reduce that anticipation (and subsequent social media ire) with its latest round of product releases, announced Wednesday morning. The homes-sharing company has a new “guest favorites” section that collects the most loved stays, redesi
It was Thursday night, and the jury in Sam Bankman-Fried’s federal fraud case had been deliberating for more than four hours. In weeks of testimony, the jurors had heard from Bankman-Fried’s former friends, employees, and girlfriend at FTX, his crypto exchange, and Alameda Research, his trading firm. Accused of stealing billions in customer deposits on FTX, and lying to customers, investors, and lenders about that, Bankman-Fried—once a magazine cover star who hobnobbed wi
Most of President Biden’s recent executive order on AI focused on hot-button areas like tackling safety risks and maintaining the pace of innovation. But buried in the middle of the sprawling decree was a short section on “supporting workers.” In that section, Biden directed certain federal agencies to develop new guidelines to protect workers from increasingly common AI tools in the workplace.
The guidelines that come out of the directive most likely won’
TikTok has announced that it will be shuttering its Creator Fund for TikTok users in the United States in just over a month, on Saturday, December 16, 2023. The fund will also be closed for users in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, but it will still be available for creators in Italy and Spain.
TikTok launched the Creator Fund in July 2020 during the height of pandemic lockdowns when social media usage was skyrocketing and interest in TikTok was at a then-all-time high. The
NEW YORK (AP) — After months of signaling bankruptcy could be on the horizon, WeWork has officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, marking a stunning fall for the office sharing company once seen as a Wall Street darling that promised to upend the way people went to work around the world.
In a late Monday announcement, WeWork said it entered into a restructuring support agreement with the majority of its stakeholders to “drastically reduce”
A “bio-ingenuity” startup removing forever chemicals from water. An AI company building new models and chips inspired by neuroscience and physics. A biotech figuring out how secreted proteins can be marshaled to develop drugs to address chronic diseases.
These are “deep tech” startups—ones focused on the kind of technically challenging ideas that were once the bedrock of venture-capital investment but are now a niche within the larger world of VC f
Just four months after launching xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company has its first product.
Grok was launched in beta overnight, with Musk promising a personality- and humor-filled chatbot that’s been, in part, trained on the vast volumes of user data on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
That ability to tap into a real-time stream of commentary and analysis on the social network has been posited by Musk as a game changer. Unlike ChatGPT and other large
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