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Can’t get a business loan? This new credit card might change that
Entrepreneurs and prospective business owners looking for ways to finance their budding companies often run into a problem: Their personal credit scores are low—which makes it difficult to access...
How to get funding in this economy: advice from an angel investor
The first company I built was in 2008; we closed our seed round in May, the housing crisis hit in August, and the world collapsed. I distinctly remember Sequoia...
This new tax deduction in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill lets people cash in on charitable donations up to $2,000. Here’s what to know
President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which was recently signed into law, offers Americans a number of of tax benefits. It makes many of the 2017 changes from...
Finding value from AI agents from day one
From assuming oversight for complex workflows, such as procurement or recruitment, to carrying out proactive cybersecurity checks or automating support, enterprises are abuzz at the potential use cases for...
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT agent reasons, researches, and runs its own computer
OpenAI is rolling out a new AI agent within ChatGPT that can browse the web and conduct deep research. An AI agent is similar to an AI app that...
LCID stock price surges as new deal sets up Lucid Motors to take on Waymo and Tesla
Investors are betting on a bright future for Lucid after the Silicon Valley-based electric vehicle maker announced a $300 million deal to create a robotaxi program with ride-sharing giant...
Would you skip dinner to buy a backpack? 54% of parents say yes
While back-to-school shopping is certainly an end of summer expense that many families dread, this year is shaping up to be even more financially straining. Binders, backpacks, calculators, and...
‘Superman’ has sparked a viral ‘hopecore’ movement among Gen Z fans
“Kindness, maybe that’s the real punk rock,” says James Gunn’s Superman, which hit theaters this past weekend. It’s a message that seems to have resonated deeply with Gen Z....
How to run an LLM on your laptop
For Pistilli, opting for local models as opposed to online chatbots has implications beyond privacy. “Technology means power,” she says. “And so who[ever] owns the technology also owns the...
Meta is using tents to build its giant AI data centers
When Mark Zuckerberg announced on July 14 that his company Meta was embarking on a project to build massively power-hungry data centers to support its ambitions for advancing artificial...
Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto tokens approved for trading
Holders of the digital tokens issued by World Liberty Financial, one of the crypto ventures of the family of Donald Trump, voted on Wednesday to make them tradable, paving...
The Download: three-person babies, and tracking “AI readiness” in the US
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Researchers announce babies born from a trial...