Five Coaching Techniques to Level Up Your Leadership Style

May 21, 2024
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to leading your company and developing your employees into effective leaders. However, if you’re looking for a place to start, harnessing these coaching principles and techniques in your communication and mentorship can help you achieve those goals.

Stack AI wants to make it easier to build AI-fueled workflows

May 21, 2024

Stack AI’s co-founders, Antoni Rosinol and Bernardo Aceituno, were PhD students at MIT wrapping up their degrees in 2022 just as large language models were becoming more mainstream. ChatGPT would be released to the world at the end of the year, but even before that, they recognized a problem inside companies putting data together with […]

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Pinecone launches its serverless vector database out of preview

May 21, 2024

Pinecone, the vector database startup founded by Edo Liberty, the former head of Amazon’s AI Labs, has long been at the forefront of helping businesses augment large language models (LLMs) with their own data. Most recently, though, the company completely rearchitected its product to launch Pinecone Serverless, which frees its customers from having to think […]

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Special mud helps XGS Energy get more power out of geothermal wells

May 21, 2024

Young geothermal energy wells can be like budding prodigies, each brimming with potential to outshine their peers. But like people, most decline with age. In California, for example, the amount of electricity generated by geothermal power plants declined by 15% between 2001 and 2018, partly because existing wells degraded. “The history of geothermal has been […]

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Sonos finally made some headphones

May 21, 2024

The market play is clear from the outset: The $449 headphones are firmly targeted at an audience that would otherwise be purchasing the Bose QC Ultra or Apple AirPods Max.

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Five ways criminals are using AI

May 21, 2024
Artificial intelligence has brought a big boost in productivity—to the criminal underworld.  Generative AI provides a new, powerful tool kit that allows malicious actors to work far more efficiently and internationally than ever before, says Vincenzo Ciancaglini, a senior threat researcher at the security company Trend Micro.  Most criminals are “not living in some dark…