AI Frees Up Your Time — Here’s Why You Should Spend It With Your Employees
You don’t have to micromanage — but you do have to show up. Here’s why presence is the underrated superpower of AI-era leaders.
OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior
OpenAI is testing another new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside large language models. Researchers at the company can make an LLM produce what they call a confession, in which the model explains how it carried out a task and (most of the time) owns up to any bad behavior. Figuring out…
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This Navy Veteran Cashed in His 401(k) to Buy a Business. Now, He Has Two Locations.
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HR giant Workday says hackers stole personal data in recent breach
The HR tech giant said it had no indication of any unauthorized access to customer systems, but has not ruled out a breach affecting customers’ personal information.
Perplexity now supports live earnings call transcripts for Indian stocks
AI startup Perplexity is augmenting its Finance dashboard with the ability to transcribe Indian public companies’ quarterly earnings calls live, as well as show schedules for post-results conference calls.
Grammarly gets a design overhaul, multiple AI features
Grammarly now has a new document-based interface, built on the back of Coda, the productivity startup it acquired last year. The interface also sports an AI assistant, as well as a few AI tools meant for students and professionals, including an AI grader, proofreader and citation finder.
The Download: pigeons’ role in developing AI, and Native artists’ tech interpretations
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. Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by authors like Isaac Asimov or thought experiments like the Turing test.…
Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs
In 1943, while the world’s brightest physicists split atoms for the Manhattan Project, the American psychologist B.F. Skinner led his own secret government project to win World War II. Skinner did not aim to build a new class of larger, more destructive weapons. Rather, he wanted to make conventional bombs more precise. The idea struck…
GPT-5 is supposed to be nicer now
OpenAI announced late Friday that it’s updating its latest model to be “warmer and friendlier.”
‘Stranger Things’ creators may be leaving Netflix
Netflix could soon lose the creative team behind one of its biggest hits, with the Duffer Brothers reportedly signing an exclusive deal with Paramount.