I’ve spent the last year watching marketing teams scramble to understand why their organic traffic reports tell one story while their pipeline tells another. The missing link is almost always a need for AI search analytics tools. 
Why Intelligent Leaders Still Make Bad Decisions AT first glance, leadership mistakes are difficult to explain. Many failed decisions are made by highly intelligent, experienced, and capable people. The leaders involved often possess strong analytical skills, deep industry knowledge, and years of practical experience. They are not careless. They are not uninformed. And yet, serious … Read more
SolarSquare, an Indian rooftop solar startup that helps households and housing societies adopt solar power, is in advanced talks to raise fresh capital after securing India’s largest solar venture investment in December 2024, TechCrunch has learned. B Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners are set to co-lead the Series C round, which could value SolarSquare at … Read more
On May 19, 633 malicious npm package versions passed Sigstore provenance verification. They were cleared by the system because the attacker had generated valid signing certificates from a compromised maintainer account. Sigstore worked exactly as designed: it verified the package was built in a CI environment, confirmed a valid certificate was issued, and recorded everything … Read more
Tap the Power of Weaknesses Everyone sucks at something. Stop pretending everyone is great at everything. Exercise Call a team meeting where everyone names one weakness, including you. (This only works in high-trust environments.) “I’m not good at ….” Don’t humble-brag by saying, “I’m not good at taking time off.” Write your name on the … Read more
In the latest sign of these AI-heavy times, the National Transportation Safety Board temporarily removed access to its docket system after discovering that voices of pilots who were killed in a UPS plane crash last year had been re-created using AI and were circulating on the internet. The NTSB is prohibited by federal law from … Read more
Here’s how the small-but-mighty Ahrefs product marketing team uses AI to automate their work. Andrei leads product marketing at Ahrefs, with a small team covering copy, webinars, partnerships, and paid promotion for all of Ahrefs (including the dozens of updates we ship each month). Constance works on the product team, running all of our webinars, writing our … Read more
Waymo has now paused service in four cities because its robotaxis are struggling to deal with heavy rain and flooded roads, a problem that already prompted the company to issue a recall last week. One of Waymo’s robotaxis was spotted driving through a flooded street in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday before it ultimately got stuck … Read more
Leading Thoughts for May 21, 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. Brad Stulberg on goals: “Goals are like mountaintops. They are important insofar as they provide definition and direction for our journeys. They serve as … Read more
Anthropic has told its investors that it will more than double revenue to around $10.9 billion in its second quarter, and deliver an operating profit for the first time, the Wall Street Journal reports. That’s a big milestone and fast quarter-over-quarter growth that would put it in an advantageous position relative to its chief competitor, … Read more