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Messy breakup? Instagram might make it a lot harder to move on.Instagram is testing a new subscription that gives paying users access to several features, including the ability to view another user’s Story in stealth mode.Other perks include creating audience lists beyond “Close Friends” and extending a Story by an additional 24 hours. Instagram Stories are photos and videos that expire after 24 hours. Currently, the creator can see who views them.”Our hope from these tests is to understand what’s most valuable to people in a premium feature set,” an Instagram spokesperson said in a statement to Bloomberg. The company…

Editor’s note: This list was first published in August 2023 and has been updated to reflect recent developments.After years of losses, Allbirds has agreed to a sale.The company announced on Monday that it would be acquired by American Exchange Group, a New York-based fashion and consumer goods company, for $39 million.The announcement follows several years of plummeting sales for the shoemaker, once famous for its wool sneakers worn by tech bros and venture capitalists. At the height of its popularity, during its IPO trading debut in 2021, its stock soared about 116% and gave the company a $4 billion valuation.…

The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line.Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance. No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers or delete keys.The exercise started in spring 2023 as Phelps grew frustrated with the reality that students were using generative AI and online translation platforms to churn out grammatically perfect assignments. “What’s the point of me reading it if it’s already correct anyway, and you didn’t write…

Would you trade your manager for a chatbot? A growing number of Americans are saying yes. According to a Quinnipiac University poll published Monday, 15% of Americans say they’d be willing to have a job where their direct supervisor was an AI program that assigned tasks and set schedules. Quinnipiac surveyed 1,397 adults in the United States and conducted the poll — which included questions about AI adoption, trust, and job fears — between March 19 and 23, 2026. Of course, the majority of respondents said they wouldn’t be willing to swap their human boss for an AI people manager.…

LiteLLM, makers of a popular AI gateway used by millions of developers, has publicly announced that it is ditching compliance startup Delve and will redo its security certifications with another company and auditor. The announcement comes after LiteLLM’s open source version fell victim to some horrific credential-stealing malware last week. Prior to the incident, LiteLLM had obtained two security compliance certifications by hiring AI compliance startup Delve. Such certifications are intended to verify that a company has procedures in place to minimize potential incidents. Delve has been accused of misleading its customers about their true compliance by allegedly generating fake data and…

Would you trade your manager for a chatbot? A growing number of Americans are saying yes. According to a Quinnipiac University poll published Monday, 15% of Americans say they’d be willing to have a job where their direct supervisor was an AI program that assigned tasks and set schedules. Quinnipiac surveyed 1,397 adults in the United States and conducted the poll — which included questions about AI adoption, trust, and job fears — between March 19 and 23, 2026. Of course, the majority of respondents said they wouldn’t be willing to swap their human boss for an AI people manager.…

Americans are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to help with things like research, writing, school or work projects, and analyzing data — but they’re not exactly happy about it. Even as AI use and adoption rises, Americans continue to lack trust in the new tool, according to a Quinnipiac University poll published Monday. Of the nearly 1,400 Americans surveyed, more than three-quarters said they don’t trust AI — 76% say they trust it rarely or only sometimes, compared to just 21% who trust it most or almost all of the time.  That comes even as an increasing number of Americans…

In 2016, Pacific Gas and Electric planned to wind down its utility operations at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant in California by 2025, citing concerns from environmental advocates about the plant’s location near the water and atop several fault lines. Loading audio narration… But in September 2022, PG&E received unexpected news from the state: Gov. Gavin Newsom had signed SB 846 into law, extending the nuclear power plant’s operations through October 2030.”We had to pivot to continue to operate,” Maureen Zawalick, PG&E’s senior vice president and chief risk officer, who has worked at the company for 30 years, told Business…

If you’re writing an email to Tony Xu about a DoorDash issue, be detailed. Loading audio narration… The CEO told podcaster David Senra in an interview posted on Sunday that he appreciates receiving long messages from customers and delivery workers, whom the company calls “Dashers,” particularly when they explain a problem they had with the app.”I love the 2,000 word emails, especially from Dashers, who will give many use cases of why the logistics algorithm broke for them,” Xu said on the podcast.Xu said that many of the short emails he gets don’t contain helpful details. Longer ones, meanwhile, contain…

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Dozens of clowns marched through the streets of Bolivia’s capital on Monday to protest a government decree that limits extracurricular activities, threatening their livelihoods.Wearing full face paint and their signature red noses, the clowns gathered in front of the Ministry of Education in La Paz to oppose a decree published in February. The new mandate says schools must comply with 200 days of lessons each year — effectively banning schools from hosting the special events where these entertainers are frequently employed.“This decree will economically affect all of us who work with children,” said Wilder Ramírez,…