Markets

Grindr is betting big on IRL marketing. There’s a very digital reason.

Grindr became one of the world’s best-known dating brands by helping men meet each other using their phones. Its marketing dollars, on the other hand, are increasingly being deployed in the real world.Grindr CMO Tristan Pineiro told me that there are two pertinent — and digital — business reasons he’s…

Welcome to the blackboard jungle

Elly Dominicis doesn’t consider herself a tiger parent — but the technological jungle of modern-day parenting might turn her into one.She’s inundated by the battery of apps and tools required to handle her sons’ schooling and activities. There’s ClassDojo for communication and behavior management, a school portal for the gradebook,…

OpenAI’s CFO says AI is replacing some jobs, but many are mundane ones

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said that AI is reducing the need for some workers, but only repetitive ones.In a Tuesday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer on “Mad Money,” Friar addressed AI use for efficiency at OpenAI, using her own finance department as an example.”There is no doubt we are doing…