Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Last month, the company suspended its AI-powered news alert feature after it falsely claimed a murder suspect had shot himself, one of several fabricated headlines that appeared under trusted news organizations’ logos. “Generative AI is distinct from some of those trends, but there’s definitely a lot of hype.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Spotify made major headlines last year when it announced an exclusive podcast deal with the Obamas’ production studio Higher Ground. A Spotify spokesperson says future seasons, if the show’s renewed, will “debut exclusively” on Spotify, but didn’t say whether the show will be windowed or fully exclusive to the service.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The cloud storage and services market is nowhere near maturity, according to Battery Ventures’ 2021 State of the OpenCloud report. Robots that can make salads and cheeseburgers are fascinating, which means they’re more likely to hog the headlines than companies making technology that optimizes governmental operations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

They’ll unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines and will wade through the hype to keep you up-to-date on the world of business, tech and VC. Steering Toward an Autonomous Future: A decade ago, Lyft launched in San Francisco as the friendly pink mustache–wearing ride-hailing service.

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TechNode

APRIL 23, 2024

Although the virtual Lius nearly 40-minute-long slot made for only a short section of the 11-hour-long e-commerce event, its appearance still suggests that the company sees use of the avatar as a headline- and hype-generating strategy as it looks to boost consumption on its platforms.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Michelle Obama’s show, which was widely hyped as a major exclusive get, also now has its first season available everywhere. Exclusive deals garner headlines and attention, but when it comes to succeeding in the medium to long-term, ad sales will be key.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Phil Haslett, co-founder and chief strategy officer of EquityZen, had this to say about the company’s choosing to move forward with its delayed SPAC despite all the negative headlines over the past 20 months. First up, the company’s spinoff unit, Jio Financial Services, made its public debut. The de-SPAC was a way to raise $565M.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 7, 2023

The hype around generative AI is real, and data and ML teams are feeling the heat. Financial services Way back in early 2023, Wall Street institutions like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup famously banned ChatGPT due to data privacy concerns. Getting started with LLMs? Image courtesy of author.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

In this case, Barnabas Birmacher, CEO of Platform as a Service company Bitrise, shared the lessons he learned as his team attempted to enter Japan. The Log4Shell exploit that gave bad actors the ability to execute malicious code on infiltrated servers made global headlines and ruined many cybersecurity professionals’ holidays.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Lamb links to another story: "wireless network might be used by terrorists," the headline screams. But "Terrorists might also use our bus service to move about the city undetected." despite the hype that ???everybody Well, yeah. " What is with these scare stories? non-profit blogs???

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

While these companies have very real customer bases and products, it is not hard to imagine that at least some of these valuations were propped up by hype.” From Manish Singh: “Indian financial services firm Paytm is considering repurchasing its shares, following a tremulous year that has seen its stock price fall by over 60%.

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DataRobot

MARCH 31, 2022

Over the past several years, AI has gone from obscurity to headline news but not always for the right reasons. While AI systems have matured from science experiments to vital business-as-usual tools, not every AI project lives up to the hype. New technologies, products, and services are developed. People change over time.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

Watching this year’s I/O demos I was reminded of the hype surrounding self-driving cars, a technology that has so far failed to deliver on its biggest claims (remember Elon Musk promising that a self-driving car would take a cross country trip in 2018 ? These snippets have made headlines when users discover particularly egregious errors.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

So this all depends on your frame of reference, Nilay, and I guess, which headlines you’re reading and believing. To the point where it makes most sense to deploy those in captive fleets that are maintained, curated, cleaned, serviced, etc., I would say even in the past year we’ve seen a lot more solutions get deployed to consumers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

The spotlight of hype has lit up many areas since autonomous driving had its own time in the sun , but progress in the technology is chugging along. It’s clear that the dream of not having to drive ourselves around is not dead, given the rising tallies of miles driven by bots, greater commercialization, and other headlines.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Two new reports from Bloomberg and Wired have shed light on some of Google’s failures in building its Stadia cloud gaming service. One key issue, according to Wired , is that Google may not have put as much investment in its internal studios as its much-hyped plans for Stadia may have suggested.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Also out today was news regarding Public’s latest deal, this time bringing Otis aboard its consumer trading service. Its service provides job-seekers a hub for their interview process, hopefully boosting candidate conversion rates. Hit the link for more, and a very good headline. And Miller also wrote up Blink’s recent round.

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The Verge

MARCH 23, 2022

era produced only goods and services, whose value was always denominated in dollars or other national currencies. Eventually, its creators say, you’ll be able to use it to buy virtual land, play games, and purchase services. The arrival of blockchains over the past decade created a new option for impatient VCs. Companies in the Web 2.0

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The startup feels low-key in a sector that has been full of hype and chest-beating in recent years. As reported by Natasha Mascarenhas: “ Ramp recently sent a message to crypto companies using its corporate card services saying that it is significantly lowering spending limits and adding new requirements.

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TechNode

JUNE 12, 2024

However, many AI application companies are currently being overvalued amid the hype, which was the consensus among guests at the Summit. The US is in the process of restricting Chinas access to American companies AI cloud services from overseas and advanced chips. We want to invest in the biggest idea that eventually goes on to an IPO.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

We’ll unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines, and wade through the hype to keep you up to date on the world of business, tech and VC. What Does Product-Market Fit Mean When Hype Tanks? Few startups had as much hype — and early consumer buy-in — as Clubhouse. with TechCrunch Editorial Team.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 24, 2025

He was part of a secret trading pool of wealthy investors who used coordinated buying and media hype to artificially pump the price of Radio Corp. Chatterflow, a service from Narravance, alerts subscribers to roughly 10 stocks a day, with 2 to 4 seeing sharp, short-term moves from social media chatter.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Devindra: Mr. Panos Panay was there, the father of the service and no devices, just him talking about AI. First of all, you gave it a really, um, I think serviceable score. Cherlynn: I mean, so that headline is like all thanks to our EIC, Aaron [00:02:00]Souppouris, because I was like, where, where do I go from here?

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