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Dear founders: your emails read different. Is it AI?Paul Graham is a titan of the startup space. He cofounded Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s hottest startup accelerator. He also coined “founder mode,” the management philosophy that’s swept tech in recent years.He’s noticed a trend that worries him: people using AI to write their pitches.”A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style,” Graham wrote on X. “I know they’re written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before.”Once he realizes the email is AI-generated, Graham wrote he gives up: “It feels…
Universal Music Group (UMG) and TikTok recently announced the renewal of their licensing agreement, which includes a commitment to get rid of unauthorized AI-generated music from the platform improve how artists and songwriters are credited. In their joint announcement, UMG stated the agreement “extends TikTok and UMG’s groundbreaking commitment to AI protections that promote human artistry and ensure platform economics effectively flow through to artists and songwriters. TikTok and UMG will work together to remove unauthorized AI-generated music from the platform, while further improving artist and songwriter attribution.” This new agreement represents a notable shift in the relationship between UMG…
Four days. That’s all that’s left to decide, not just whether you’ll be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, but how you’ll show up from October 13 to 15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West and how much momentum you create once you’re there. Right now, you can save up to $410 on your Disrupt pass before prices increase on May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, rates go up, and so does the cost of missing the conversations, visibility, and connections that can accelerate what happens next for your company. Because at a certain point, growth is no longer just about building. It’s about being seen, understood, and taken seriously by the people who influence what…
The AI jobs apocalypse has not yet come to pass — and Sam Altman says he’s happy to be wrong about that.The OpenAI boss told a tech conference this week that his predictions about AI wiping out entry-level jobs had been wide of the mark, after once suggesting that the technology would cause “entire classes” of jobs to disappear.”My scorecard, at the highest level, would be we’ve been roughly right on technological predictions and pretty wrong on the social and economic implications,” said Altman, according to a summary of a conversation with Matt Comyn, the CEO of Commonwealth Bank of…
PARIS (AP) — Parents’ groups in France called Tuesday for more attention to long-ignored child abuse scandals as a rare public trial opened of a school assistant accused of sexually assaulting nine young children in Paris.Inspired by Gisèle Pelicot ’s decision to make her harrowing drug and rape trial public, the parents of the children agreed to open the proceedings. In France, trials involving children are usually held behind closed doors.According to their lawyers, some parents said they were following the example of Pelicot and her motto that “shame must change sides” to abusers, not victims.The Paris case emerged in…
More lawyers are leaving established firms to start their own, often using artificial intelligence to do the work of a traditional firm with far less overhead. Pamir Ehsas is one of them.Until last year, Ehsas was putting in late nights and weekends as a junior lawyer at a large Norwegian law firm, advising clients such as OpenAI on contracts, privacy, and other legal matters. He quit to start Moritz, a law firm and software startup that builds software for its own lawyers.Earlier this year, Moritz set out to raise a $3 million seed round. It ended up closing $9 million,…
After Claude Code creator Boris Cherny told Business Insider at Anthropic’s developer conference that he’d grown tired of the phrase “vibe coding,” we asked readers for input on a new name. Readers largely answered with one word: “slop.””Vibe coding” has become a go-to techie term for telling AI to write code. To solicit ideas for a new term, Business Insider put out a survey asking for suggestions and about how people vibe code.A few hundred responses rolled in, split about 50-50 between people who said they’d vibe coded within the last six months and those who hadn’t. A clear majority…
Daniel Deceuster used to go to his colleagues for all manner of things big and small. If he needed to convert a rectangular logo into a square, he’d message one of the designers. If he wanted a new dashboard built, he’d set up a meeting with the engineers.These days, all Deceuster needs is to open up Claude or ChatGPT — and often within seconds, he gets what he needs. “We’re getting more done than we’ve ever done before,” he tells me. But lately, he’s been mourning what that productivity has cost him.Now that he no longer depends on his colleagues…
Just a few years ago, America’s public schools were rushing to get every child a laptop. Los Angeles middle school teacher Anna Soffer remembers it well: “The idea was that technology is the future, so we need to put tech in every child’s hands.”Now, the conversation has flipped. After pouring billions of dollars into laptops, tablets and learning apps, many schools are facing a digital reckoning. Classrooms have become saturated with screens, and a growing number of parents, teachers and school districts are saying it is time to scale back.“The Chromebook is just a world of distraction,” says Soffer, who…
No, Pope Leo XIV — the 267th Bishop of Rome, who leads over 1.4 billion Catholics — isn’t joining Anthropic.After the Vatican invited Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah to help unveil the pope’s big letter warning about AI— and he publicly thanked Olah — the internet started joking that one of Silicon Valley’s hottest AI startups had recruited the head of the Catholic Church.Breaking: Pope Leo just announced he’s leaving papacy and will join Anthropic as a member of technical staff. https://t.co/4BLW1X1S7P— Mike Sapiton 🇺🇦 (@sapitonmix) May 25, 2026 During his speech, the pope thanked Olah — who was sitting a…