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Stripe CEO says company management regularly asks customers for ‘candid feedback’
Digital payments platform Stripe invites customers to join its management team meetings on a bi-weekly basis so it can get “candid feedback,” according to co-founder Patrick Collison. In an April 8 post on X, the fintech giant’s CEO said the company has a customer…Read More
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Can China fight America alone?
The world’s two biggest economies begin an almighty trade clash
Read more: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/04/10/can-china-fight-america-alone
#Economics #Finance #Money #Economy #Business
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Meghan Markle has made another angel investment
Meghan is stepping further into the world of business and entrepreneurship. In an interview with Fortune, Meghan revealed that she is an angel investor in the healthcare company Midi, which provides a virtual platform to help treat women experiencing menopause and other health-related concerns. …Read More
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MIT study finds that AI doesn’t, in fact, have values
A study went viral several months ago for implying that, as AI becomes increasingly sophisticated, it develops “value systems” — systems that lead it to, for example, prioritize its own well-being over humans. A more recent paper out of MIT pours cold water on that hyperbolic notion, dra…Read More
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The world flatters the tariff king
In hopes of dodging tariffs, countries are offering gifts to Donald Trump
Read more: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/04/08/the-world-flatters-the-tariff-king
#Economics #Finance #Money #Economy #Business
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Tapestry’s app can now de-dupe your social feeds
Tapestry, a new app designed to organize the open social web, is adding a valuable feature to help people who are keeping up with multiple social networks: It will now remove duplicate posts from your feed. That means if you follow the same person across social networking services like Bluesky a…Read More
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Where real danger might lurk in chaotic markets
The further prices fall, the greater the risk of a “doom loop”
#Economics #Finance #Money #Economy #Business
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Waymo may use interior camera data to train generative AI models, sell ads
Waymo is preparing to use data from its robotaxis, including video from interior cameras tied to rider identities, to train generative AI models, according to an unreleased version of its privacy policy found by researcher Jane Manchun Wong. The draft language reveals…Read More
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Will Trump’s trade war cause a global recession?
Investors are worried. At least the economy is starting from a position of strength
#Economics #Finance #Money #Economy #Business
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Microsoft releases AI-generated Quake II demo, but admits ‘limitations’
Microsoft has released a browser-based, playable level of the classic video game Quake II. This functions as a tech demo for the gaming capabilities of Microsoft’s Copilot AI platform — though by the company’s own admission, the experience isn’t quite the same as playing a w…Read More
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Trump has exposed America’s world-leading firms to retaliation
At companies from Alphabet to Goldman Sachs, bosses will be holding their breath
#Economics #Finance #Money #Economy #Business
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SF Mayor Lurie to tech CEOs: ‘How can we get you back?’
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie wants to bring his city back to its glory days. And he’s convinced tech leaders — who often pitch utopian ideals of their own — can help him deliver. “I’m a mayor that is picking up the phone and calling CEOs,” said Lurie during TechCrunch’s Strictl…Read More
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Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s most expensive AI model yet
On Friday, Google released API pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro, an AI reasoning model with industry-leading performance on several benchmarks measuring coding, reasoning, and math. For prompts up to 200,000 tokens, Gemini 2.5 Pro costs $1.25 per million input tokens (roughly 750,000 words, l…Read More
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