February 18, 2026

3 High-Impact Ways Traditional Businesses Can Use AI to Boost Productivity

Businesses in traditionally low-tech environments can unlock significant productivity gains by focusing on three high-impact areas where AI can make a difference.

The Download: Meta’s new AI system, and covert Chinese social media activity

July 19, 2023
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. Meta’s latest AI model is free for all  The news: Meta is going all in on open-source AI. The company has unveiled LLaMA 2, its first large language model that’s available for anyone…

2023 Investing Lessons Learned: Mid-Year Edition

July 19, 2023
43 year investment veteran Steve Reitmeister admits to some investing missteps in 2023 by not acknowledging the new bull market for the S&P 500 (SPY) at an earlier stage. Full…

India tax officials search edtech UpGrad offices

July 19, 2023
Officials from India’s GST tax department are searching the offices of UpGrad, an edtech unicorn that counts Temasek, James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems and World Bank’s International Finance Corporation among its backers, the startup said Wednesday. “It’s a routine survey and we are fully compliant and cooperating with the department,” UpGrad said. The startup, founded by […]

Unity’s Apple Vision Pro game development tool opens in beta

July 19, 2023
Unity this morning announced that it has opened the beta version of its development platform for visionOS. PolySpatial, which was announced in conjunction with Vision Pro headset at WWDC, is designed to help developers port and create a 3D experience for Apple’s “spatial computing” platform. The platform is designed to remove as much friction as […]

FedML raises $11.5 to combine MLOps tools with a decentralized AI compute network

July 19, 2023
Interest in AI among the enterprise continues to rise, with one recent survey finding that nearly two-thirds of companies plan to increase or maintain their spending on AI and machine learning into this year. But often, these companies are encountering blockers in deploying various forms of AI into production. A 2020 poll from Rexer Analytics […]

Google is experimenting with AI-generated background on Meet

July 19, 2023
Google is experimenting with a generative AI feature to create new backgrounds for Google Meet calls. This new test lets people type in a prompt to generate a background for the call. The feature, which was first posted by Artem Russakovsii on Twitter, is part of Google Workspace Labs. That means only a few people […]