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Amazon launches Alexa for Shopping as Rufus moves behind the scenes thumbnail
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Amazon launches Alexa for Shopping as Rufus moves behind the scenes

Amazon has introduced Alexa for Shopping, combining its Rufus shopping chatbot with Alexa+ across its app, website, and Echo Show devices. The assistant...

AI won’t optimize your company. It will force you to rebuild it  thumbnail
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AI won’t optimize your company. It will force you to rebuild it 

For the past two years, companies have been asking the wrong question: how do we use AI in our processes?  That question made...

SpaceX IPO: Stock listing date nears as Elon Musk’s rocket company prepares for historic market debut thumbnail
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SpaceX IPO: Stock listing date nears as Elon Musk’s rocket company prepares for historic market debut

Investors might soon get a closer look at the financial details behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The rocket and satellite company, whose forthcoming initial...

Nine founder red flags that are keeping VCs from investing in your AI company thumbnail
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Nine founder red flags that are keeping VCs from investing in your AI company

AI may be attracting billions in venture capital, but money is not flowing to every founder with a chatbot demo and a slick...

How the Spotify mafia took over Sweden’s tech scene thumbnail
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How the Spotify mafia took over Sweden’s tech scene

When Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon founded Spotify in April 2006, they were two Stockholm entrepreneurs with a prototype so skeletal that Per...

Mozilla’s Mark Surman on 3 ways CEOs can build trust in AI thumbnail
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Mozilla’s Mark Surman on 3 ways CEOs can build trust in AI

Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn...

Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio got a 15x return on a tech company most Americans have never heard of. He thinks his own industry is broken thumbnail
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Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio got a 15x return on a tech company most Americans have never heard of. He thinks his own industry is broken

About a decade ago, Tom Colicchio started writing checks. Not large ones at first, and not on his own thesis—he is the first...

Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI thumbnail
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Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI

For the back half of the 20th century (what Fortune founder Henry Luce called “The American Century”), MBA and law degree programs were...

‘You’re not a hero, you’re a liability’: Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary warns Gen Z founders to stop glorifying hustle culture thumbnail
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‘You’re not a hero, you’re a liability’: Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary warns Gen Z founders to stop glorifying hustle culture

Gen Z founders chasing their big break are facing a modern-day catch-22: protect their mental health or sacrifice work-life balance in pursuit of...

I’ve been studying Big Tech for a long time. What just happened with Anthropic and the Pentagon terrifies me thumbnail
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I’ve been studying Big Tech for a long time. What just happened with Anthropic and the Pentagon terrifies me

I spent two years at the Federal Trade Commission, watching regulators doing their best to keep pace with Silicon Valley. I thought I...