Alongside news of its new AI-focused subscription plans, Meta announced on Tuesday that it will now allow AI agents of your choosing to set up and manage WhatsApp Business messaging, the service that allows companies to connect with customers through WhatsApp conversations. As Meta explains, this process was previously a bit more cumbersome, as it … Read more
Mastering Uncertainty WE all face uncertainty. The question is: how can we keep performing when faced with the disorder of uncertainty? Life will not happen according to our expectations. Peak performance at all times is not realistic. Instead, success is about optimal performance. Rich Diviney states in Masters of Uncertainty that “True success in life … Read more
A Chinese state-linked hacking group compromised executive laptops at an agricultural industry conference on Hainan Island this spring — not through phishing or a network breach, but by breaking into hotel rooms and booting the machines from a USB stick while the executives were at dinner. CrowdStrike, which tracks the group as OVERCAST PANDA, disclosed … Read more
OpenAI has bought smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging in a deal worth over $300 million, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The company, founded in 2019 and based in Los Altos, California, had previously raised about $30 million in funding from investors. Glass Imaging was founded by Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, … Read more
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Letaido have improved enormously over the past year. Parts of marketing that never seemed automatable now are, and you don’t have to be a software engineer or rocket scientist. This is a collection of 37 straightforward, useful ways to use AI in your marketing, organized by discipline, from … Read more
6 Ways to Make Adversity Useful Adversity doesn’t create opportunity. Leaders do. Trouble can produce bitterness, blame, and paralysis. It takes leadership to transform difficulty into progress. How to Make Adversity Useful #1. Expand Perspective Don’t let difficulty be the whole story. Trouble is magnetic. distress moves to the center of life. Ask, “When have … Read more
Another Y Combinator Demo Day took place on Thursday, but this batch looked a little different. While every cohort brings a fresh wave of founders, the startups presenting this week skewed far more toward deep tech than in past years. As we do every quarter, TechCrunch asked early-stage VCs to name the hottest startups in … Read more
Leading Thoughts for September 10, 2026 IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Nick Bare on doing the work: “Sometimes, we think that just doing more of something or working harder on anything will get us to … Read more
Every day, your business generates enormous amounts of data. Customer calls, marketing campaigns, sales pipelines, recruitment funnels: the information is all there. But if your team is still spending hours compiling spreadsheets and waiting on weekly reports, you’re not making decisions based on what’s happening now. You’re making decisions based on what happened last week. … Read more
Now my final one and probably the one that most people struggle with is being agile and adaptive. What this means is that rather than trying to plan out an entire year of content, you give yourself space to be agile, to be adaptive to what is happening around you in your industry and create … Read more