“What if you could store and deliver goods as easily as data? Amazon, Walmart and others are using AI and robotics to transform everything from appliance shopping to grocery delivery. Welcome to the physical cloud.” | learn more
Petition11 is a great newsletter that covers “disruption from the vantage point of the disrupted”. That’s right – they cover the distressed companies that are or soon will end up in bankruptcy court. This week: Trident Holding Company LLC, a […]
This news of the bank’s new digital currency for cross-border payments has been reported in many places. I’m choosing this American Banker article partly because it’s finance-industry appropriate, but mostly because it quotes our very own subscriber Nelson Rosario a […]
Coinbase’s blog breaks down the layers of the new stack for the web in enough detail to be technical and yet understandable to us commoners. It gets pretty nerdy, so only click through if you’re really into this. | learn more
This Forbes piece doesn’t cover recent news, but it is a neat profile of one Chicago’s entrepreneurship heroes. The author interviewed Sam Yagan to learn about his history founding SparkNotes (went well), eDonkey (ended badly), and OKCupid (eventually acquired to […]
Gina Bianchini, CEO of Mighty Networks, discusses how the internet has fundamentally changed business models for media. Specifically, she’s saying that audiences are out and networks are in. I think she makes a great point! | learn more
Axios reports on the new technology from OpenAI that enables machines to write human-sounding prose. Combined with Deepfake technology to create artificial video and audio, “It could be used to influence people one-on-one on a massive scale, rather than distributing […]
The census tract around the factory had a cancer risk 9x the national average. That no other regulators had shut this place down already is crazy. I want to give Rauner benefit of the doubt, but the company “is owned […]
“There is always that one country on our collective conscious, and I wanted to know how that has changed over time… After looking at 741,681 section front headlines, I found out which countries around the world have preoccupied Americans the most each […]
Although some of his other targets were sadly more cooperative, this business venture did not end well for the scammer. Oops. | learn more