September 2023

An inside look at Congress’s first AI regulation forum

September 25, 2023
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. Recently, I wrote a quick guide about what we might expect at Congress’s first AI Insight Forum. Well, now that meeting has happened, and we…

Why Does Jay Soloff Love This Income Stock?

September 25, 2023
This company is in the sweet spot when it comes to higher mortgage rates. Its required insurance product is in increasing demand as home prices outstrip the ability of most…

Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic

September 25, 2023
Amazon said Monday it has agreed to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic as the e-commerce group steps up rivalry against Microsoft, Meta, Google and Nvidia in the fast-growing red hot sector that many technologists believe could be the next great frontier. The e-commerce group said it will initially invest $1.25 billion […]

Correcto grabs $7M to build out its ‘Grammarly for Spanish’

September 25, 2023
The generative AI boom has put a spring in the step of Correcto, a Madrid-based language writing tool startup focused on Spanish speakers that’s today announcing $7 million in seed funding. The round is led by London-based Octopus Ventures, with Carya Venture Partners and River Park Ventures also contributing. The founding team began work on […]

California governor vetoes bill to ban driverless AV trucks

September 25, 2023
California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Friday that would have required a human safety operator to be present any time a self-driving truck operated on public roads in the state. The win for the autonomous trucking industry comes after the California Senate had passed the bill in mid-September. The bill would have effectively banned […]

My Favorite Energy Stock Under $10

September 24, 2023
Oil is back in the headlines as it has rocketed higher on a combination of factors over the past two months. This means oil stocks should definitely be back on…

6 Tips for Efficient Meeting Management

September 24, 2023
Meetings make the business world go round. However, it often feels like meetings are actually slowing everything down. There are some stark differences between an effective meeting and a waste…