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 First, let's be clear, AI agents do remove roles. At previous companies I founded, I needed a team of developers to build a robust website, integrate it into deployment pipelines, configure hosting, make the UI look good, and handle all the moving parts. I needed marketers to create content, design images in Figma, Canva, and Photoshop, manually research, and write notes to customers and prospects. Now, AI agents can handle a huge portion of that.
In the last six months, my work has shifted from working with people to working with agents. Creation tasks I previously gave to employees and contractors, like writing code, designing interfaces, setting up infrastructure, drafting blog posts, are now being handled largely by AI. While not nearly as good as the top talent I have worked with, these agents have the advantage of being
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WorkWorkWorkClaude can now connect to learning apps like Canvas, Panopto and Wiley Separately, Anthropic is partnering with campuses worldwide to launch Claude Builder Clubs, an initiative designed to help students run hackathons, workshops and demo nights dedicated to Claude and AI more broadly. "Together, they’ll build AI-powered projects — anything from an app to help their colleagues study and learn, to the next billion-dollar startup," the company says. Students can apply today to kickstart their own Builder Club this fall. Work
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WorkWorkGlowbar Became a Multimillion-Dollar Business by Avoiding This 1 Startup Trap - Inc (No paywall) For Rachel Liverman, patience isnt just a virtue. Its a business strategy. Since launching her facial company Glowbar in 2019, the entrepreneur says she has turned down many opportunities that other founders might jump at, like hosting a Hamptons pop-up, holding a South by Southwest event, or partnering with a dermatologist to create this or that product.Liverman calls these shiny objects. And while she says some were tempting, she knew theyd take her concentration away from the actual business that were trying to scale.By focusing all of Glowbars resources on the product itself insteadmeaning its 30-minute facials and $65 per month membership programLiverman grew her New York City-based business from one Tribeca storefront to 20 locations across six states. With a three year growth rate of 1,087 percent and a projected 2024 revenue of $16 million, Glowbar landed at No. 409 on last years Inc. 5000 list.As a founder, your instincts will always guide you, Liverman says. At the beginning, I knew to stay focused and keep my eye on the prize. Then, around 2022, her instincts told her it might be time to start developing a skincare line. She took stock of Glowbars resources, asking herself, Do we have the people, the time, and the money? When all of those things started signaling yes, she realized the time was finally right to expand her companys offerings.After about two and a half years of development, Glowbar launched its first skincare product, a $28 cleanser, two weeks ago. According to Liverman, the cleanser is popular with Glowbar members and has also sold extremely well online. WorkWorkThe right's meltdown over Jeffrey Epstein, explained Amid all the controversies of President Donald Trump's second term so far, the one that may be causing him the biggest problems among his right-wing base is about a man who died six years ago: Jeffrey Epstein.
WorkWorkOpenAI and Jony Ive's startup seal the deal For the uninitiated, Ive was a trusted collaborator and confidant of Steve Jobs during the creative explosion that produced some of the most influential tech products ever made. Ive left Apple in 2019 to form LoveFrom. He and Apple parted ways three years later. WorkWork
WorkWork4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment - The New Yorker (No paywall) People have been telling stories about renewable energy since the nineteen-seventies, when the first all-solar-powered house opened on the campus of the University of Delaware, drawing a hundred thousand visitors in 1973, its first year, to marvel at its early photovoltaic panels and its solar hot-water system, complete with salt tubs in the basement to store heat overnight. But, even though weve got used to seeing solar panels and wind turbines across the landscape in the intervening fifty years, we continue to think of what they produce as alternative energy, a supplement to the fossil-fuelled powerthat has runWestern economies for more than two centuries.In the past two years, however, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy hassuddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world. Against all the big bad things happening on the planet (and despite all the best efforts of the Republican-led Congress in recent weeks), this is a very big and hopeful thing, which a short catalogue of recent numbers demonstrates: WorkWorkHere's President Trump Success Rate In The Courts - Forbes (No paywall) The Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for the Trump administration to carry out mass firings at federal agenciesthough while the high court has been largely deferential to President Donald Trump, hes still been overwhelmingly on the losing side of lawsuits against him since Inauguration Day, with federal judges ruling against him 60% of the time.
WorkWorkWorkNvidia becomes the first company to reach $4 trillion in value Chipmaker Nvidia became the first public company to top $4 trillion in value on Wednesday after two-year investor frenzy. Nvidia shares rose 2.5%, or $3.97, in early trading Wednesday, topping $164 each. At the beginning of 2023, Nvidia shares were around $14 each. Work
WorkElon Musk's AI Chatbot Grok Under Fire For Antisemitic Posts We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts, the statement read, referencing messages shared throughout Tuesday. xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved. WorkWorkWork
WorkMatcha lovers are turning against each other over global shortage - WSJ (No paywall) The online community for matcha lovers, which helped propel the bright green powdered teas worldwide popularity, is usually a place where enthusiasts share their golden matcha-to-milk ratio for concocting lattes at home, review different brands and detail their drink-making process, which involves special tools like a mixing bowl, sifter and bamboo whisk. WorkWorkWhat Plastic Surgery Couldn't Fix - The Cut (No paywall) I was 11 when I started doing WeightWatchers with my mom. It wasnt about mother-son bonding. It was my older sisters Tiger Beat posters of a shirtless Marky Mark, his perfectly sculpted washboard abs. It was staying up past my bedtime to watch Beverly Hills, 90210, wishing I could be Dylan McKay or at least borrow his bulging biceps under that tight white tee. I didnt have the words for it yet, but I already knew: To be seen, to be safe, to matter, I had to look a certain way. And if I couldnt change who I was which had been my original prayer to whatever god I believed in at the time maybe I could change the shape. WorkWorkExclusive: TikTok prepares US app with its own algorithm and user dataTikTok is preparing to launch a standalone app for U.S. users that is expected to operate on a separate algorithm and data system from its global app, laying the groundwork for a potential sale orchestrated by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. WorkWorkWork 
WorkWhy the AI moratoriums defeat may signal a new political era - MIT Technology Review (No paywall) The Big, Beautiful Bill that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4 was chock full of controversial policiesMedicaid work requirements, increased funding for ICE, and an end to tax credits for clean energy and vehicles, to name just a few. But one highly contested provision was missing. Just days earlier, during a late-night voting session, the Senate had killed the bills 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulation. WorkHow 3 Companies Digitized Their Procurement Processes - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) Companies have ambitious plans for rapidly digitizing the procurement function, especially through emerging technologies like AI. That was a finding of a study that we conducted with Digital Procurement World in October 2024, which included a survey of over 200 procurement executives around the world. However, in separate in-depth interviews we conducted with over two dozen procurement executives and a few of their colleagues in the supply chain and IT functions, we discovered obstacles that can get in the way of these ambitions. But we also found ways that three companies featured in this article are successfully employing to overcome them: WorkDoing More is Often Easier Last year I bought a strength training program from a Canadian bodybuilder named Jeff, and it kind of made me better at everything. The program was designed for people who don't have much time to train - busy people cramming 35-minute workouts into lunch breaks. Because you only have time for one or two working sets per exercise, you have Work 
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WorkWorkScientists 3D-print part of human femur as strong as real bone A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur- the longest and strongest bone in the body - that mimics the strength, flexibility and overall mechanics of a real femur. The findings were published in 2024 in a study in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research. WorkWork
WorkWorkThe AI Industry Is Radicalizing - The Atlantic (No paywall) The story unfolds so rapidly that it can all seem, at a glance, preordained. After transferring to Columbia last fall, as Chungin Roy Lee tells it, he used AI to cheat his way through school, used AI to cheat his way through internship interviews at Amazon and Metahe received offers from bothand in the winter broadcasted his tool on social media. He was placed on probation, suspended, and, more keen on AI than education, dropped out this spring to found a start-up. That start-up, Cluely, markets the ability to cheat on everything using an AI assistant that runs in the background during meetings or sales calls. Last month, it finished a $15 million fundraising round led by Andreessen Horowitz, the storied venture-capital firm. (Columbia, Meta, and Amazon declined to comment on the record about Lees case.) |
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