The Iconic Flatiron Building in Manhattan Is Going Condo
But can it fit a king-size bed?
The Download: AI replicas, and China’s climate role
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI can now create a replica of your personality Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour interview. A friendly voice guides you through a conversation that ranges from your…
October 2023
Struggling to Be Happy? These 5 Strategies Can Help in Your Pursuit of Happiness
This article explores the enduring quest for happiness, delving into its philosophical foundations, the science of happiness, the pursuit of meaning, the role of relationships and the practice of mindfulness.
Starting a Small Business? Here Are the States Where It’s Most Likely to Survive — and the Least.
Location can make or break your business’s success.
X to take on newswire services with new product, XWire
As Instagram Threads is leaning away from news, according to statements made by Instagram head Adam Mosseri, its competitor X appears to be doubling down. Executives at the company formerly known as Twitter, spoke during yesterday’s all-hands internal meeting of their desire to create a new wire service called XWire, according to Bloomberg. The service […]
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Internet access in Gaza is collapsing as ISPs fall offline
As the conflict between Israel and Hamas reaches its third week, internet connectivity in Gaza is getting worse. On Thursday, internet monitoring firm NetBlocks wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the Palestinian internet service provider NetStream “has collapsed days after the operator notified subscribers that service would end due to a severe shortage of fuel […]
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AI is going to make Big Tech even bigger, and richer
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Friday show, and we’re talking about the week’s biggest startup and tech news. Mary Ann and Alex were lucky enough to have Kirsten aboard for the […]
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Sure, Microsoft grabbed the headlines, but Amazon still top dog in the cloud
We’ve talked about the first to market advantage before, and it certainly applies when it comes to the cloud infrastructure market. While Microsoft made headlines this week for its AI implementation, and Alphabet took a big stock hit for its slight cloud miss, Amazon growth has quietly settled into low double digits growth. And it […]
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5 Ways to Be Generous While Still Being a Frugal Business Owner
You can be charitable and considerate without breaking the bank.
A group behind Stable Diffusion wants to open source emotion-detecting AI
In 2019, Amazon upgraded its Alexa assistant with a feature that enabled it to detect when a customer was likely frustrated — and respond with proportionately more sympathy. If a customer asked Alexa to play a song and it queued up the wrong one, for example, and then the customer said “No, Alexa” in an […]
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OpenAI, Google and an “digital anthropologist”: the UN forms a high level board to explore AI governance
The halls of power are waking up to the potentials and pitfalls of artificial intelligence. The big question will be how much of an impact they will have on the march of progress if (and when) there are mis-steps. Yesterday, the United Nations announced a new AI advisory board — 38 people from across government, […]
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