👋🏾 Hey folks, December’s flying by, and I feel like we’re speedrunning the end of the year. I’m deep in planning mode for January and have been thinking through how I want to spend 2025 (very proactive, I know). It got me thinking — what’s on your mind for the new year? Is 2025 your year ..
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Hey folks 👋 It’s been a very blue week in social — a Bluesky week, that is. We’re big fans of Bluesky here at Buffer and have been since we first heard whispers about it last year. Fun fact: I’m user number #562! Bluesky is having a moment, and as such, we’ve pooled all the ..
Four-day workweeks might have all the buzz, but one major tech company is going in the opposite direction. Samsung is implementing a six-day workweek for all executives after some of the firm’s core businesses delivered lower-than-expected financial results last year. A Samsung Group executive told a Korean news outlet that “considering that performance of our ..
This article originally appeared on Business Insider. Meta’s large language model and AI assistant are getting upgrades. On Thursday, the company released the first models of Llama 3 in two sizes, 8B and 70B parameters. They’ve also been integrated into Meta AI, the company’s AI assistant. “With this new model, we believe Meta AI is ..
As the conversation around AI technology and its potential dangers and benefits becomes more mainstream, one billionaire is doubling down on his desire to use the technology for good to help find solutions to climate change. On Thursday, Jeff Bezos’s Bezos Earth Fund announced that the organization would be donating $100 million in grants to ..
The new social media app, Airchat, which has attracted high-profile users and investors from OpenAI’s Sam Altman to Accomplice VC’s Jeff Fagnan, is currently a calm departure from the usual cacophony of chatter on social media — even as it puts users’ voices front and center. Airchat first launched in mid-2023 and is still invitation-only. ..
The FBI has issued a new warning of a phishing scam that’s been targeting Americans using toll roads via SMS. Called a “smishing” grift (a hacking scam that’s performed using fake SMS text messages), and the FBI said that it has received over 2,000 complaints across three different states from people alleging they were contacted ..
This article originally appeared on Business Insider. Agriculture equipment company John Deere is on the hunt for a different kind of CTO. The brand on Tuesday announced a two-week search to find a “Chief Tractor Officer” who would create social media content to reach younger consumers. One winning applicant will receive up to $192,300 to ..
Country star Jelly Roll, 39, is having a banner year, but a lawsuit filed last week in Pennsylvania court claims that his past reputation is causing a local band “irreparable harm.” A wedding band based in Chadds Ford, Penn., a town just outside of Philadelphia, called “Jellyroll” is suing the country musician for trademark infringement ..
A new report released on Wednesday by Ameriprise Financial found that a majority of Gen X and young Boomer couples have delayed taking action on retirement. The financial services company surveyed 1,500 U.S. couples within 10 years of retirement, between the ages of 45 and 70. The goal was to understand how couples of a ..