
As a Black tech founder, I’ve experienced trials and tribulations to scale my business. I launched RenderATL during the pandemic when most people thought I was out of my mind to hold an in-person event when everything was shutting down. I didn’t let that stop me, and over the past three years, we’ve been able to scale. I did this because I didn’t rely solely on funding and VCs to help make my dream a reality.
As Black entrepreneurs, it’s unfortunate that we don’t have access to ca

Sixty-three percent of marketing leaders intend to invest in generative AI (Gen AI) in the next two years. But, while the technology has the promise to be transformative, incorporating it has challenges. Here are five ques

Resiliency. As the climate around us changes, this concept is dominating conversations from the water cooler to the C-suite. But what does it really mean? Weather can be one of the biggest impact on business efficiency and operations, yet it remains an underappreciated risk in the boardroom. The growing frequency and severity of natural disasters and extreme weather events, as reported by the World Economic Forum, can upend e

Tesla has left out its goal of delivering 20 million vehicles a year by 2030 in its latest impact report published on Thursday, another sign the company is tempering its auto ambitions as it shifts focus to robotaxis.
CEO Elon Musk had said in 2020 that Tesla aspired to sell 20 million vehicles by the end of the current decade—twice as many as those sold by

Google parent Alphabet’s potential acquisition of HubSpot, a U.S. marketing software maker with a market value of $31 billion, would boost its ability to compete against Microsoft in offering cloud-based applications to companies.
Reuters reported last month that Google was exploring an offer

Tesla investor Scottish Mortgage Investment trust said on Thursday it plans to continue backing CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package at its annual shareholder meeting next month.

The first attempts to regulate artificial intelligence programs that play a hidden role in hiring, housing and medical decisions for millions of Americans are facing pressure from all sides and floundering in statehouses nationwide.
Only one of seven bills aimed at preventing

Long before generative AI’s boom, a Silicon Valley firm contracted to collect and analyze non-classified data on illicit Chinese fentanyl trafficking made a compelling case for its embrace by U.S. intelligence agencies.
The operation’s results far exceeded human-only analysis, finding twice as many companies and 400% more people engaged in illegal or suspicious commer

The VR music platform Soundscape is collaborating with the electronic music producer deadmau5 to offer unlimited streams of his VR performance in the company’s musical metaverse.
The collaboration with deadmau5 will feature an exclusive virtual concert. The concert will be roughly an hour long and will be available in “Twilight Thicket,” one of the platform’s six universes.
The first major VR experience built nativel

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