Which State Was Just Ranked No. 1 for Business?
CNBC’s annual state ranking is out and this year marked the closest finish ever.
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…
July 2024
Prices Fell in June for the First Time Since 2020. Are Interest Rate Cuts Coming Next?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest Consumer Price Index report reveals something that hasn’t happened in a very long time: declining consumer prices. Here’s what that could mean for interest rates.
6 Ways California’s New Minimum Wage for Fast Food Workers Will Hurt Franchises — And Consumers
Discover how California’s new minimum wage law is transforming the fast food industry, impacting franchise owners, employees, and the broader economy.
The Download: automating warehouse tasks, and problems with recycling plastics
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 is poised to automate today’s most mundane manual warehouse task Before almost any item reaches your door, it traverses the global supply chain on a pallet. More than 2 billion pallets are…
After Starting 5 Businesses, This Entrepreneur Found Unprecedented Success with Goodr. Here’s What He Did Differently When Starting the Eyewear Brand.
Stephen Lease, co-founder of Goodr, was a guest on a recent episode of ‘How Success Happens.’
AI is poised to automate today’s most mundane manual warehouse task
Before almost any item reaches your door, it traverses the global supply chain on a pallet. More than 2 billion pallets are in circulation in the United States alone, and $400 billion worth of goods are exported on them annually. However, loading boxes onto these pallets is a task stuck in the past: Heavy loads…
Here’s the problem with new plastic recycling methods
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Look on the bottom of a plastic water bottle or takeout container, and you might find a logo there made up of three arrows forming a closed loop shaped like a triangle.…
Nvidia Is ‘Slowly Becoming the IBM of the AI Era,’ According to the Leader of a $2 Billion AI Startup
Jim Keller, a former engineer at Apple and Tesla, compared Nvidia’s AI chips to IBM’s dominance over PCs in the 1980s.
Lauren Sánchez Says This Is the One Thing ‘People Don’t Really Know’ About Her Fiancé Jeff Bezos
Sánchez was interviewed by her longtime friend, actor and producer Eva Longoria.
5 Lessons Learned From a 7-Figure Founder
Five key lessons I wish someone had given me when I first started out on my entrepreneurial journey.