How This CEO Breathed Life Into a 75-Year-Old California Ice Cream Brand Without Losing Its Nostalgic Identity
McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams CEO Michael Palmer talks about revitalizing the brand for a new era and rethinking social media strategies.
The Download: shaking up neural networks, and the rise of weight-loss drugs
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. The next generation of neural networks could live in hardware Networks programmed directly into computer chip hardware can identify images faster, and use much less energy, than the traditional neural networks that underpin…
How Setting Clear Financial Goals Can Transform Your Business and Personal Success
Dive in to refresh your core financial competencies — from cash flow management to understanding key financial statements.
Adobe wants to make it easier for artists to blacklist their work from AI scraping
Adobe has announced a new tool to help creators watermark their artwork and opt out of having it used to train generative AI models. The web app, called Adobe Content Authenticity, allows artists to signal that they do not consent for their work to be used by AI models, which are generally trained on vast…
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The Download: Geoffrey Hinton’s Nobel Prize, and multimodal AI
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. Geoffrey Hinton, AI pioneer and figurehead of doomerism, wins Nobel Prize Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist whose pioneering work on deep learning in the 1980s and 90s underpins all of the most powerful…
Geoffrey Hinton just won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on machine learning
Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist whose pioneering work on deep learning in the 1980s and 90s underpins all of the most powerful AI models in the world today, has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Speaking on the phone to the Academy minutes after the announcement,…
Why artificial intelligence and clean energy need each other
We are in the early stages of a geopolitical competition for the future of artificial intelligence. The winners will dominate the global economy in the 21st century. But what’s been too often left out of the conversation is that AI’s huge demand for concentrated and consistent amounts of power represents a chance to scale the…
Forget chat. AI that can hear, see and click is already here
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Chatting with an AI chatbot is so 2022. The latest hot AI toys take advantage of multimodal models, which can handle several things at the same time, such as images, audio, and…
The Best Leaders Know How to Pick Their Battles — Here’s How to Choose Them Wisely at Work
In business, you’ll encounter disagreements. It’s important to decide when to confront an issue and when to step back, as it involves allocating your time and resources wisely.How to Pick Your Battles
Introvert Warren Buffett Was ‘Terrified’ of Public Speaking. Here’s the Secret That Helps Him Address 40,000 People at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting.
Even the most successful business leaders can be wary of getting in front of a crowd.