AI gains momentum in core manufacturing services functions
Disruption in manufacturing and the supply chain has pushed businesses toward digital transformation as they seek ways to stay competitive....
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CVS, Yum! Brands And Wayfair Report Earnings – Here’s How They Fared
(Photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)Getty ImagesKey takeaways CVS was up on revenue and earnings, but lowered its...
The Download: cybercriminals’ Pacific paradise, and the carbon offset crash
Tokelau, a string of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last...
The growing signs of trouble for global carbon markets
But what counts as quality? Carbon Direct says it can include carefully managed and closely monitored reforestation efforts or the burying...
How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime
It was from an early internet entrepreneur from Amsterdam, named Joost Zuurbier. He wanted to manage Tokelau’s country-code top-level domain,...
Humans at the heart of generative AI
Generative AI is becoming a key component of business operations and customer service interactions today. According to Salesforce research, three...
The Download: tech’s hardest problems, and cancer-fighting cell therapies
Technology is all about solving big thorny problems, yet one of the hardest things is knowing where to focus our...
China wants to win the gene therapy race—and it’ll spend millions
On Friday, Shu Yilai, a professor and practicing surgeon at Fudan University in Shanghai, shared results of the trial, in...
What are the hardest problems in tech we should be more focused on as a society?
Technology is all about solving big thorny problems. Yet one of the hardest things about solving hard problems is knowing...
Tackling our biggest problems
We have employed it to broadcast hateful rhetoric and divisive ideologies. We have fine-tuned our machines to kill each other...
Pfizer Layoffs Confirmed As Vaccine Manufacturer Drives For Cost Savings
(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Getty ImagesKey takeaways Pfizer is laying off an undisclosed amount of employees after confirming it’s shutting...
Google Invests In Anthropic For $2 Billion As AI Race Heats Up
(Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesKey takeaways Google has announced a $2 billion...
The Download: Biden’s executive order, and calling out AI harms
Rebecca George doesn’t mind the vultures that complain from the trees that surround the Western Carolina University body farm. George...
People shouldn’t pay such a high price for calling out AI harms
The G7 has just agreed a (voluntary) code of conduct that AI companies should abide by, as governments seek to...
Three things to know about the White House’s executive order on AI
The goal of the order, according to the White House, is to improve “AI safety and security.” It also includes...
Unlocking supply chain resiliency
To gain greater visibility into its supply chain, fast-food restaurant giant McDonald’s teamed up with supplier Golden State Foods in...
Sam Bankman-Fried Takes To The Stand As FTX Trial Continues
(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Getty ImagesKey takeaways FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was in court last week testifying He claims FTX’s...
The Download: Joy Buolamwini on AI, and Meta’s beauty filter lawsuit
AI researcher and activist Joy Buolamwini is best known for a pioneering paper she co-wrote with Timnit Gebru in 2017...
Why Meta is getting sued over its beauty filters
I have interviewed a lot of cosmetic surgeons and cosmetic injectors over the years who tell me that patients use...
We need to focus on the AI harms that already exist
One problem with minimizing existing AI harms by saying hypothetical existential harms are more important is that it shifts the...
