As the buzz around generative AI (GenAI) has begun to quiet from the fever pitch it reached over the past year, business leaders and their teams are taking a step back and evaluating the technology with a more sober perspective. After a year of dominating news cycles and dinner conversations alike, GenAI is no longer a novelty—it’s being implemented in businesses every day. A recent Gartner survey found that 55% of organizations report they’re increasing investment in Gen
Costco responds to union: After some of its Virginia workers launched an unexpected move to unionize, Costco Wholesale Corporation came back with an unusual response. The company’s top execs wrote that it was a “failure on our part.” Full story.
CVS drops Humira: CVS Health will no longer include AbbVie’s Humira on most prescription plans and will instead offer less expensive alternatives. The drug, which treats inflammatory conditions, is a top seller, a
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If you spend lots of your time at a keyboard, there are at least 12 types of tools you need. This post covers tasks, projects, notes, and documents. I’m outlining simple and sophisticated options, so you can pick what suits you.
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Dr. Fei Fei Li emigrated from China to the United States when she was 15 years old. She balanced her education with working odd jobs to earn extra money, and at one point moved her parents into her dorm room as a graduate student at CalTech. Today, she is known as the godmother of artificial intelligence, one of a handful of researchers who laid the groundwork for the AI revolution. She’s a professor of computer science at Stanford as well as the director of Stanford’s Human-Cen
On new PCs running Windows 11, Microsoft’s AI Copilot will soon be only a keypress away.
The company announced on Thursday that it’s adding a Copilot key to the Windows keyboard, designed to launch the Copilot for Windows AI system when pressed. The Copilot tool can help users answer general questions in the style of other AI chatbots, summarize content from the web, and help with Windows-specific tasks, like changing operating system settings.
The new key is
Right under our noses, animals have developed their own relationship with human technology. Dogs are microchipped, monitored by home security robots, and trained not to bark with “autonomous” shock collars. The agriculture industry uses Fitbit devices to track livestock health. A few Big Ag firms have even deployed facial recognition-esque technology to identify individual cows. Wildlife in several major cities, including New York, are now regularly tracked with cameras, as well
Today, a federal judge ruled Alphabet’s Google must defend itself against antitrust charges brought by 16 states sooner than it had hoped.
Five days ago, Google settled a separate lawsuit—a $5 billion class-action privacy lawsuit claiming the company had secretly tracked consumers in “incognito” mode.
Ten days before that, Google announced it would pay $700 million to settle a lawsuit in which all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico
The dating world’s biggest day of the year is imminent.
Dating Sunday, which is named for the first Sunday of the new year, is traditionally the busiest day of the year for dating apps. Singles, past the holiday slump and with fresh eyes for relationships, turn to the apps in hopes of finding romance.
A large part of this is marketing (hello, “Super Bowl of dating apps”), but there’s also some data to back up the power behind the day. The number
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What The New York Times suit against OpenAI could mean for AI
The New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft late last month, alleging the companies used its content to train their respective AI mod
California lawmakers return to work on Wednesday for the start of an election-year legislative session dominated by decisions on artificial intelligence and the state’s struggling budget.
The budget is a big issue every year in California, which is the nation’s most populous state and has an economy larger than that of all but four countries. But this year, lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom will have to figure out how to cover an estimated $68 billion def