Lowe’s Is Spending $250 Million to Revive America’s Skilled Trades Workforce — Here’s Why
The home improvement company is investing heavily in skilled trades like plumbing, carpentry and electrical work.
The Download: NASA’s nuclear spacecraft and unveiling our AI 10
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. NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work? Just before Artemis II began its historic slingshot around the moon, NASA revealed an even grander space travel…
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Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’
Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he’s working on AI for research and says AGI is simply misunderstood.
Mustafa Suleyman: AI development won’t hit a wall anytime soon—here’s why
We evolved for a linear world. If you walk for an hour, you cover a certain distance. Walk for two hours and you cover double that distance. This intuition served us well on the savannah. But it catastrophically fails when confronting AI and the core exponential trends at its heart. From the time I began…
Your Business Is Probably Overspending on Data Storage. Here’s How AI Fixes That.
Up to 30% of data storage budgets are wasted on fear-driven over-provisioning. AI-powered predictive tools provide a solution. Here’s what you should know.
What Growing Startups Get Wrong About CRM Software, and How to Fix It
Why CRM software fails in growing startups and how fixing process, not tools, makes it work.
As YouTube grows on TV, it eyes more interactive video across formats
YouTube’s hiring across roles, partnerships, and a Bengaluru hub shows how it is building out its TV strategy.
Intel Just Signed On to Elon Musk’s Massive AI Chip Project — Here’s What They’ll Be Building
The partnership aims to produce 1 terawatt per year of compute power across two massive chip factories in Texas.
This $500,000 Corporate Retreat to Honduras Went Horribly Wrong. ‘We Had to Eat a Dead Tarantula’
Plex flew 120 employees to a tropical paradise for team building. What followed was a comedy of errors and the CEO hospitalized with E. coli.
The ‘Sneaky’ Ways Companies Are Making You Pay More — Without Raising Prices
As fuel prices spike and supply chain costs surge, businesses are finding creative ways to offset the pain — and not all of them are obvious to customers.
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