How common chemicals could help clean up global shipping
I’ve actually got boats on the mind because there was just big news in global shipping from the International Maritime...
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It’s Amazon Prime Day Again – Here’s How The Stock Market Reacted
(Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesKey Takeaways Amazon Prime Day is here again,...
The Download: Bill Gates isn’t scared of AI, and net-zero shipping goals
Bill Gates just joined the chorus of big names in tech who have weighed in on the question of risks...
The US-China chip war is still escalating
4. Five people were arrested by the Hong Kong police for involvement in creating an online shopping app to map...
Bill Gates isn’t too scared about AI
The billionaire business magnate and philanthropist made his case in a post on his personal blog GatesNotes today. “I want...
The UN just set a net-zero goal for shipping. Here’s how that could work.
The next two milestones, at 2040 and 2050, could be harder to hit. Efficiency improvements and operational measures won’t be...
The Download: AI weather forecasting, and Threads is thriving
The big storyChina’s path to modernization has, for centuries, gone through my hometown June 2021 For generations, politicians and intellectuals...
Meta Stock Gains On Successful Threads Launch As Twitter Struggles
Photo Illustration by Onur Dogman/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesKey Takeaways Meta stock had a turbulent 2022,...
Weather forecasting is having an AI moment
Big Tech’s arrival on the weather forecasting scene is not purely based on scientific curiosity, reckons Oliver Fuhrer, the head...
Building a world-class platform for software engineers
A 2021 poll conducted by Haystack Analytics found 83% of developers were suffering burnout, driven by increasing demands on their...
Jobs Report Comes In Higher Than Expected And Meta’s Answer To Twitter Has Launched – Forbes AI Newsletter July 8th
Getty ImagesTL;DR The ADP jobs report has come in way over the level analysts were projecting, with 497,000 new jobs...
The Download: China’s semiconductor fightback, and New York’s controversial AI law
China has been on the receiving end of semiconductor export restrictions for years. Now, it’s striking back with the same...
FDA Approves New Alzheimer’s Drug But Creators Biogen And Eisai Stock Slides
(Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesKey Takeaways Leqembi, the first ever drug for...
Why everyone is mad about New York’s AI hiring law
The use of AI in hiring has been criticized for the way it automates and entrenches existing racial and gender...
China just fought back in the semiconductor exports war. Here’s what you need to know.
Mining companies in Congo and Russia have already said they intend to increase production of germanium to meet demand. Some...
The Download: tricking AI text-detectors, and covid’s unanswered questions
My colleague has just come down with covid-19. The onset of symptoms was rapid, and she described it as “like...
AI-text detection tools are really easy to fool
Daphne Ippolito, a senior research scientist at Google specializing in natural-language generation, who also did not work on the project,...
Is The Stock Market In A Bubble Right Now?
Key Takeaways The US stock market has made big gains so far this year off the back of AI and...
Covid hasn’t entirely gone away—here’s where we stand
Reassuringly, older, non-expired tests do still seem to be picking up new variants of the virus (although it’s worth bearing...
A human-centric approach to adopting AI
So very quickly, I gave you examples of how AI has become pervasive and very autonomous across multiple industries. This...
