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One in three Gen Zers is letting AI do their homebuying homework, but they still trust realtors with the closing process
1+ hour, 50+ min ago (624+ words) Gen Zers have gotten so accustomed to AI that they're now using it for one of the biggest financial decisions they'll ever make: buying a home. A study by the Bank of America Institute found that about a third of…...
This CEO became 3x more productive with AI. Then she read what her daughter wrote about it at Dartmouth
6+ hour, 2+ min ago (1403+ words) Editor's note: Maria Colacurcio is the CEO of Syndio, a decision intelligence company focused on pay. Her daughter, Sofia Frei, just completed her first year at Dartmouth College. They wrote these essays independently. by Maria Colacurcio, CEO, Syndio The strange…...
AWS CEO says replacing young employees with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'and bad for business: 'At some point the whole thing explodes on itself"
6+ hour, 56+ min ago (612+ words) Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned of AI displacing entry-level workers, and Ford CEO Jim Farley said the tech will wipe out half of white-collar jobs, but Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman has a wildly different take on…...
Ex-Google engineer says Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai share the same 'crazy' trait
7+ hour, 27+ min ago (593+ words) When Arvind Jain, the now co-founder of Rubrik and Glean, landed a job at Google, he felt like an "imposter. The engineer had moved to America from a small town in India and suddenly found himself surrounded by MIT and…...
Anthropic's Alibaba fight raises a trillion-dollar question for IPO: How defensible is a frontier AI moat against China with Washington's toolbox?
8+ hour, 32+ min ago (760+ words) Anthropic has alleged Alibaba found a cheaper way to close the already narrowing AI gap: Not by stealing servers or smuggling chips, but by using fake accounts and innocuous interactions with Claude to extract its capabilities and train competing systems…...
Anthropic's Mythos 5 AI model cleared by U. S. for wider use
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (460+ words) Anthropic PBC won US approval to restore some access to its powerful Mythos 5 artificial intelligence model, after resolving Trump administration concerns about the technology's potential threats to national security. "Anthropic has worked with the US government to address risks associated…...
'It's not going away': The Stanford economist who called the AI entry-level jobs crisis early has the receipts
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (750+ words) Last August, a team led by Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson published a deep look at the impact of AI on jobs, boosted by a "large-scale, high-frequency administrative dataset from ADP," the largest payroll software provider in the United States. Not…...
Nobel laureate economist warns AI jobs apocalypse fears could become a self-fulfilling prophesy
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (339+ words) In a guest essay in The New York Times on June 22 headlined "This Doommaxxing Has Got to Stop," the Yale economist" expanded on his Nobel-prize winning work on how markets misprice risk. He's now interested in the cause of that…...
This rural Maine factory made 100 million COVID swabs a month. Its CEO says manufacturing's best days are ahead
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (347+ words) Timothy Templet serves as CEO of'Puritan Medical Products, where'Virginia Templet is the marketing director. On the 250th anniversary of America, there is cause for a lot of celebration'and a little concern too. But, now more than ever, we should keep the…...
The uncertainty paradox: believe it or not, today's massive uncertainty creates the best conditions for disruptive growth
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (528+ words) When a patient expects surgery and a surgeon decides not to operate, something uncomfortable happens. The patient feels abandoned. The family wants answers. The institution wants action. Every signal in the room says: do something. Co-author Dr. James Naples faced…...