Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech awards for 2023 honor 119 innovations that are paying dividends right now—and hold the potential to drive further progress over the next five years. We decided to give four organizations an additional Excellence in Innovation award to acknowledge the breath of their ingenuity. Among well-known companies, Adobe and the Walt Disney Co. have been busy imbuing multiple areas of their businesses with new technologies. Meanwhile, Phasecraft has t
Reddit’s long on-again, off-again plans to go public might be on yet again.
Bloomberg reports that the social media giant has once more begun holding talks with potential investors, with optimism rising about a possible window for public debuts. A Reddit IPO could come as early as the first quarter of 2024, Bloomberg reports.
Reddit is reportedly considering a valuation as high as $15 billion.
A lot of the decision could hinge on the success of a pending I
Michael Littman is a university professor of computer science at Brown University and division director of information and intelligent systems at the National Science Foundation. Littman is a fellow of both Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery. He was selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science as a Leadership Fellow for Public Engagement with Science in Artificial Intelligence.
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The final weeks of the year are rapidly approaching, which means tech platforms will soon unleash a flood of year-in-review recaps for their users. One of the first up this year is Apple, with its Apple Music year-in-review feature called Apple Music Replay.
Apple Music Replay allows Apple Music subscribers to see interesting and enlightening stats about all the songs they listened to on Apple’s music subscription service since January 1. Specifically, Apple Music Replay reve
You can’t go a step in the advertising and marketing world these days without running into someone’s hot new application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. It’s the shiny new object of the moment that has captured our attention, and it’s driving agencies and brands into a mad dash to be first to market.
Admittedly, AI can offer us lots of advantages and innovations, and I gladly acknowledge that it’s important for the future of business. H
Apple and Goldman Sachs may soon be parting ways on its Apple Card and Apple Savings account financial products, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. Surprisingly, Apple is the one to allegedly be proposing to end the deal, which would allow Goldman to exit its current contract with the company within the next 12 to 15 months.
There have been recent rumblings that Goldman Sachs has wanted to end its consumer banking services, which the Apple Card has been a flagsh
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OpenAI’s Q* may point to AI agents’ next generation
AI agents like ChatGPT that use only a large language model are just an early chapter in the story of AI assistants. ChatGPT and other LLM
It was meant to revolutionize finance, and free us all from the tyranny of centralized control of our banking. But it turns out, Bitcoin just might end up killing our planet.
That’s the findings of a new study by Alex de Vries, a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, who has put forward an estimate for how much water is consumed every time someone buys, sells, or mines Bitcoin on the blockchain.
Writing in the journal Cell Reports Sustainability, de Vries
On Wednesday, Apple unveiled its picks for the top apps and games of 2023, highlighting a collection that focuses heavily on personal exploration and growth.
Apps honored in platform-specific categories included the outdoor exploration tool AllTrails for iPhone, the workout guide SmartGym for Apple Watch, beauty planning app Prêt-à-Makeup for iPad, and the arthouse-adjacent film streamer Mubi for Apple TV. Only in the Mac category, where the award went to photo-editing too