JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Says Only One Group Is Complaining About Returning to the Office
In a new interview, Dimon said remote work “doesn’t work” and noted some JPMorgan employees were checking their phones while he was speaking in a meeting.
Tern AI’s low-cost GPS alternative actually works
We’ve all experienced that moment of frustration when the GPS glitches and you miss an exit on the highway. The team at Tern AI, which is building a low-cost GPS alternative, says that’s because the current technology is limited by its reliance on satellite positioning. Tern AI says it has figured out how to locate […]
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OpenAI says it has trained an AI that’s ‘really good’ at creative writing
Watch out, fiction writers. OpenAI may have you in its crosshairs. In a post on X on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company has trained a “new model” that’s “really good” at creative writing. He posted a lengthy sample from the model given the prompt “Please write a metafictional literary short story […]
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DOGE axes CISA ‘red team’ staffers amid ongoing federal cuts
Affected staff say more than 100 employees working to protect U.S. government networks were ‘axed’ with no prior warning
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Podcast app Pocket Casts makes its web player free
Pocket Casts, the podcast app acquired by Automattic in 2021, is now making its web player free. The company says the move offers an alternative to the big platforms’ closed ecosystems, where algorithmic-driven content is prioritized and podcasts are kept behind paywalls. Podcasts were built on open technology — the open, decentralized standard RSS, which […]
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A Long-Time Google Exec Shares the Secrets to Helping Customers Find Your Restaurant
Lisa Landsman, Google’s head of industry engagement and SMB success, discusses eye-opening search trends and key data insights shaping restaurants for 2025.
Humanize Automation: How Customer Data Can Transform Customer Experiences
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Boomers and Gen X Are Using Credit Cards to Pay for Basic Living Expenses — and Building Debt at ‘Concerning’ Rates
Over one-third of respondents (37%) to an AARP survey said they have more credit card debt now than they did a year ago.
Flower Labs’ launches a new service that automatically switches from local to cloud AI
Flower Labs, a Y Combinator-backed startup, on Tuesday launched a preview of its distributed cloud platform for serving AI models, called Flower Intelligence. Mozilla is already using it to power the upcoming Assist summarization add-on for its Thunderbird email client. What makes Flower Intelligence unique, Flower Labs said in a post on X, is that […]
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Yet another AI robotics firm lands major funding, as Dexterity closes latest round
The intersection of robotics and AI continues to attract attention from investors and Big Tech alike. The latest indicator? Dexterity, a startup specializing in industrial robots with “human-like” finesse, has raised $95 million at a post-money valuation of $1.65 billion, per Bloomberg. The investment, which includes backing from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sumitomo Corp., highlights […]
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Geothermal could power nearly all new data centers through 2030
Geothermal resources have enormous potential to provide the sort of consistent power that data centers crave.
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