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[ad_1] Famed for its 1960s anti-war protests, New York’s Tompkins Square Park hosted another countercultural movement on Friday: rejecting social media.”Delete Day,” organized by several Gen Z-led groups, called on young people to excise an addictive app from their lives, starting, for now, with their phones.The event was not promoted on social media, unsurprisingly, and only minimally online. Instead, attendees relied on more old-school methods, like word-of-mouth.As their peers passed by, dressed in going-out fits begging to be documented, organizers tried to entice them to join the event. Organizers wrote messages in chalk around Tompkins Square Park in New York…

[ad_1] This has been a big week for AI companies signing enterprise deals, with Zendesk unveiling new AI agents that are supposed to be able to resolve 80% of customer service issues, Anthropic and IBM announcing a strategic partnership, and Deloitte also announcing a deal with Anthropic. Plus, Google announced a new AI-for-business platform. That doesn’t mean it’s going to be smooth sailing for big organizations using AI. In fact, the timing of the Deloitte announcement was a bit awkward, coming on the same day the Australia Department of Employment and Workplace Relations said the professional services and consulting firm…

[ad_1] It’s autumn — farmers are harvesting their crops, temperatures are dropping, and leaves are falling… or are they? In Mesa, Arizona, where I’ve lived for most of my life, none of these classic signs of autumn appear. Here, we mainly harvest sunshine. Our autumn weather is what the rest of the country considers the heat of summer. Throughout September, we’re usually still in the triple digits; it’s been 100 degrees on Halloween. Fall color — if we get any — appears around Christmastime. Autumn in the East Valley of Phoenix is more of a concept on the calendar than…

[ad_1] What a difference a year makes.At last year’s San Francisco Tech Week, OpenAI was valued at a mere $157 billion, and there was unease about whether tech had truly left the doldrums of the post-COVID downturn behind.Now OpenAI has reached a lofty $500 billion valuation. AI has gone mainstream and is fueling investor frenzy in all manner of startups. The good times are back in tech, and San Francisco is the white hot center of it all.”This year, there’s an energy I haven’t seen in a long time,” said Gwyneth Borden, founder and CEO of Remynt, a fintech startup.…

[ad_1] This week, OpenAI announced that apps can now run directly inside ChatGPT, letting users book travel, create playlists, and edit designs without switching between different apps. Some immediately declared the app platform of the future — predicting a ChatGPT-powered world where Apple’s App Store becomes obsolete. An open question was answered today – “what will the AI-native distribution channel be?” It looks like ChatGPT will be that channel with 800M active users + the Apps SDK.This is likely as important as Steve Jobs announcing the app store in March of 2008 … pic.twitter.com/6RCbIi0foq— Anish Acharya (@illscience) October 7, 2025…

[ad_1] Investors aiming to predict which stocks will pop during earnings season may want to keep an eye on companies that have strong track records of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations. Earnings season for the third quarter starts ramping up next week. Some of the companies slated to share their top- and bottom-line results next week include JPMorgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Johnson & Johnson. We screened Bespoke Investment Group data for names that have beaten earnings expectations at least 80% of the time, while averaging a gain of at least 1% in the next trading session following results. Here are…

[ad_1] Stocks dropped Friday after President Donald Trump threatened higher tariffs on China , but one technical metric reveals that some stocks could be oversold and soon due for a rally. A summer of calm in the stock market was disrupted after Trump threatened to slap a “massive increase of Tariffs” on Chinese imports into the United States. These higher tariffs would counter new controls that China has levied on its rare earth exports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 879 points, or 1.9%, and ended the week 2.7% lower. The S & P 500 dropped 2.7% on Friday, while…

[ad_1] This “as-told-to” essay is based on a conversation with Vivian Chu, 38, cofounder and Chief Innovation Officer of Diligent Robotics. Diligent builds robots that can automate tasks within a hospital. This essay has been edited for length and clarity.I wanted to start a company. That was a road that I actually thought more about than kids, actually.I ended up starting Diligent Robotics first, then doing the next step — starting a family.My wife and I have two little ones at home. Our oldest is two years and seven months, and our youngest just turned 10 months.My wife gave birth…

[ad_1] It’s no secret — at least it shouldn’t be for longtime Saturday readers — that I hate meetings, but I recently unlocked a new solution that I have to shout from the rooftops for other meeting haters like me.I initially wrote about my disdain for meetings last November when I was averaging 18.3 hours a week in meetings, or about half my workday. If you can believe it, it has only increased since then, as my Google calendar indicates that I’m now spending 19 hours a week in meetings.And that doesn’t account for the time it takes to prepare…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on interviews with Wende Zomnir, the founder of Caliray. It has been edited for length and clarity.I started my career in advertising in Chicago in 1989, but those fabric cubicles quickly sucked the soul out of me. My dad had worked in corporate but dreamed of entrepreneurship. He never took the leap. He had a family to support. A part of me wanted to take the risks he didn’t.In 1994, I moved to California in search of something creative and met Sandy Lerner, the cofounder of Cisco Systems. She was launching a beauty brand…