The Fast Company Grill hit SXSW this year. Couldn’t make it to Austin? Here are some Fast Bites: Your handy recap of panel discussions.
The AI boom of the past year and a half has demonstrated the importance—and difficulty—of regulation in the tech sector. Striving for a regulatory environment that fosters innovation while addressing potential risks demands collaboration between governments and industry stakeholders. But such a
The U.S.’s highest scientific laboratory is changing with the times.
Michael Roberts is the chief scientific officer of the International Space Station National Laboratory, a government-funded organization that helps connect non-NASA scientists and companies with opportunities to perform research aboard the station. Roberts sat down to discuss the lab’s priorities, how its relationship with the commercial space industry has developed, what’s planned for the lab
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My inbox seems poised to explode. When I dive into deep work, I return to find email overflowing. To cope, I’m exploring how AI can help with searching, sorting, summarizing, and replying. Read on for a summary of new AI capabilities for saving time on email.
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If you’re interested in AI work but can’t write a line of code to save your life, the good news is that you’ve still got options. There’s more to this technology than just algorithms, data modeling, and technical engineering, after all.
Here are some roles—in order of average pay, starting at the low end—for non-techies looking to switch to an exciting AI career.
AI data labeler
AI is only as good as its data, and data
European Union regulators on Thursday ratcheted up scrutiny of Big Tech companies, including Google, Facebook, and TikTok, with requests for information on how they’re dealing with risks from generative artificial intelligence, such as the viral spread of deepfakes.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, has sent questionnaires about the ways that eight platforms and search engines—including Microsoft’s Bing, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, and
TikTok is facing a possible ban in the United States if parent company ByteDance doesn’t sell the social media platform. Making that happen might be easier said that done, though.
The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, passed a bill mandating the sale of the app within six months. If ByteDance refuses, then TikTok would be removed from app stores and U.S. servers. The legislation faces a less certain road in the Senate, but President Joe Biden has said he will sign the b
SpaceX’s third test flight of its massive Starship rocket, which NASA is counting on as part of its mission to return astronauts to the moon, ended the same as the first two, with the oversized vehicles breaking up before the flight was complete, but officials are celebrating the launch, calling it successful.
That might sound like a curious description to some people given the complete loss of the rocket, but, at this stage, success doesn’t have to mean a picture-perf
If President Joe Biden keeps his promise to sign a ban on TikTok over its ties to the Chinese government, the 81-year-old may rob his reelection campaign of a platform that he and fellow Democrats rely on to reach younger voters.
Biden’s campaign got thousands of “likes” on Tuesday for a TikTok video skewering Republican rival Donald Trump about cutting Social Security spending. But the comments were focused on another issue altogether: the proposed ban.
Yahoo is testing out a new creator program that will allow certain writers to publish and monetize stories under the Yahoo News brand, the company tells Fast Company.
The effort is meant to broaden the news platform’s lifestyle content—which it described as fitness, DIY, travel, home, and style stories—in a rapidly changing media landscape. So it won’t be available for people who want to write about things like politics or sports. The draw to creators, me
A California state senator is planning to soften a proposal that would have banned self-checkout lanes at large grocery stores and other establishments, Fast Company has learned.
The proposal, announced last month by state Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas of California’s 28th District, was part of a package of bills aimed at “empowering vulnerable populations,” including helping workers and promoting economic growth in underserved communities across the state. As i