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☆ A former Facebook director says managers need to kill the weekly 1:1 meeting. Here's why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA former Facebook director thinks the weekly 1:1 meeting with your manager needs a reboot. AdvertisementAgarwal suggested bosses give feedback every three to six months rather than weekly. But it's what "good" managers did," Agarwal wrote of the weekly appointments. Instead, Agarwal suggested that bosses should save themselves and their direct reports' time to focus on getting work done and making the company successful. Weekly 1:1s undermine this," he wrote.

Persons: —, Aditya Agarwal, Agarwal, He's, Facebook's, Aditya Agarwal Steven G, Rogelberg, doesn't, what's Organizations: Service, Business, South Park, University of North Locations: University of North Carolina, Charlotte

☆ Billionaire real estate investor Frank McCourt wants to buy TikTok — but he's not interested in the algorithm
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Shubhangi Goel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewReal estate mogul Frank McCourt is the latest person to raise his hand to try to acquire TikTok's US business. Related stories"We thought this was a really fantastic opportunity to accelerate the creation of an alternative internet," McCourt told the Associated Press. McCourt wants to change TikTok's basic business to an open-source model that allows users and creators more control over their data. McCourt told the New York Times that he doesn't want the algorithm. "We doubt very much that China would sell TikTok with the algorithm," McCourt told the Times.

Persons: —, Frank McCourt, McCourt, Kirkland, Ellis, TikTok, Forbes, Tim Berners, Lee, TikTok . McCourt, Eric Schmidt, Steven Mnuchin, he's Organizations: Service, Guggenheim Securities, Business, Associated Press, Liberty, Los Angeles Dodgers, Big Tech, New York Times, Times Locations: China

☆ How racing driverless cars is pushing autonomous technology
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Amy Gunia | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

He’s been working on robotics since the 1980s, and he’s surprised by how quickly autonomous technology has advanced. He sees this in his day-to-day work at KUCARS, where researchers are working on everything from autonomous cars and drones to marine, agricultural, and manufacturing robotics. There have been other autonomous car races before, but A2RL’s was the first to include a race between four driverless cars, according to organizers. “But it was good to push the community.”Team Polimove competes during the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League. Pushing the technology to the edgeEfforts to set driverless cars loose on public roads have faced setbacks, especially as the result of collisions with unforeseen obstacles.

Persons: Lakmal Seneviratne, He’s, he’s, A2RL’s, ” Seneviratne, Daniil Kvyat, Amr Alfiky, Reuters ‘, Max Verstappen, TUM, Seneviratne, Polimove, Giuseppe Cacace, Simon Hoffman, ” Hoffman, Uber, Hoffman, ” Organizations: CNN, Netflix, P Global Mobility, Khalifa University Center, Autonomous Robotic Systems, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League, Reuters, Beijing Institute of Technology, Abu, Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Technical University of Munich, Getty, Yas Marina Circuit, Khalifa University of Science Locations: Abu Dhabi, KUCARS, Yas

☆ Treasury launches ‘Project Fortress,’ an alliance with banks against hackers
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The new public-private partnership, dubbed Project Fortress, underscores the real danger US officials and bank executives believe cyberattacks pose to the economy. But Project Fortress is not just about playing defense. Project Fortress has been in the works for several months, with Treasury rolling out various parts of the alliance in pieces, the source said. One of the key elements of Project Fortress is the cyber hygiene tool run by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The federal government has recently flexed its offensive capabilities, including ones that are part of Project Fortress.

Persons: Wally Adeyemo, Janet Yellen, Adeyemo, Jamie Dimon, Brian Moynihan, Jane Fraser, Robin Vince, ” Vince, Vince, Jerome Powell, ” Adeyemo, Sean Lyngaas Organizations: New, New York CNN, Treasury, CNN, Bank Policy, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, BNY, Washington, Industrial, Commercial Bank of China, Infrastructure Security Agency, JPMorgan Locations: New York, Washington

☆ Meet 7 recruiters who can help you land a tech job at Wall Street firms like JPMorgan and Blackstone
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Landing a tech job on Wall Street has never been simple, but it's even less so today. But widespread layoffs in the tech sector have created a "glut of supply" of "mediocre talent," recruiters told Business Insider. That's not stopping Wall Street firms from tapping external recruiters to find technologists. Given the private nature of their work, recruiters usually keep their client list and searches close to the vest. For that reason, the specific clients most of these recruiters work with are not named.

Persons: we've, Ben Hodzic, Selby Jennings, Wall

☆ Blackstone hires Walmart AI whiz to supercharge its portfolio companies
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Private equity is ramping up its AI hiring efforts, with Blackstone snagging a key executive to oversee how AI will be applied at its some 230 portfolio companies. Mehrotra will lead Applied AI within Blackstone's data science team, Matthew Katz, Blackstone's global head of data science, told Business Insider in a written statement. Mehrotra comes to Wall Street from Walmart, where he led applied AI efforts at the retailer and managed a team of more than 400 data scientists. Related storyWhile at Walmart, Mehrotra was the vice president of applied AI, leading a team responsible for how AI was mixed into merchandising, including assortment, pricing, and inventory management. AdvertisementLike its peers, Blackstone is eager to take advantage of AI, which stands to shake up businesses across virtually all industries.

Persons: Blackstone, Prakhar Mehrotra, Mehrotra, Matthew Katz, Blackstone's, Franz Edelman, Katz, Deepali Vyas, Zac Maufe, Manoj Mahenthiran, Thomas H, Lee Organizations: Service, Walmart, Twitter, CalTech, Blackstone, Blackstone . Data Locations: Boston, Blackstone

☆ AI fever is triggering a new hunt for tech talent on Wall Street. 5 recruiters outline in-demand tech roles that can pay from $250,000 to $2 million.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewWall Street firms are switching into hiring gear. Banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms are back on the hunt for tech talent, several recruiters told Business Insider. Across the Street, finance firms are witnessing the AI transformation being led by tech giants like OpenAI and Nvidia. Hodzic added that, on average, the technology business at Selby Jennings is registering 25% more job orders a week compared to this time last year.

Persons: —, Giancarlo Hirsch, Deepali Vyas, she's, Vyas, Ben Hodzic, Selby Jennings, Hodzic, Glocomms, Hirsch, whittle, Banks, Andy Legg, Dennis Baden, Baden, Korn Ferry's Vyas Organizations: Service, Finance, Business, Blackstone, JPMorgan, Vyas, Nvidia, They're, Wall, Riviera Partners, Google, Banks Locations: Selby

☆ Jamie Dimon says in shareholder letter AI could be as consequential to the economy as electricity
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

JPMorgan, the world’s largest bank by market capitalization, is exploring the potential of generative AI within its own ecosystem, said Dimon. “Over time,” wrote Dimon, “we anticipate that our use of AI has the potential to augment virtually every job, as well as impact our workforce composition. First Republic purchaseJPMorgan acquired most of First Republic’s assets last May after the San Francisco-based regional bank was seized by the government. Dimon wrote those odds are far too optimistic. “Small changes in interest rates today may have less impact on inflation in the future than many people believe,” he said.

Persons: Jamie Dimon, ”, Dimon, JPMorgan Chase, ” Dimon, “ Organizations: New, New York CNN, JPMorgan Chase, International Monetary Fund, Industries, Nvidia, Microsoft, JPMorgan, Software, San, First Republic, Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, Markets, Traders, Federal Reserve Locations: New York, Republic, San Francisco, Silicon

☆ Why 2024 will be a year of fits and starts for dealmaking on Wall Street
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

New York CNN —Dealmaking is big business on Wall Street. That made Goldman responsible for nearly a third of the total global M&A advisory market last year. But there are fits and starts to today’s market. What do the fits and starts mean? I go back to fits and starts with good underlying trends that momentum builds, but it’s not going to be a straight line.

Persons: New York CNN —, Goldman Sachs, Goldman, Stephan Feldgoise, we’re, we’ve, it’s, Jamie Dimon, ”, Dimon, JPMorgan Chase Organizations: CNN Business, Bell, New York CNN, Retail, JPMorgan Chase, International Monetary Fund, Industries, Nvidia, Microsoft, JPMorgan, Software, New Locations: New York, Oregon, Michigan, Arizona , Delaware, Florida , Iowa , Massachusetts, Wyoming

☆ Opinion: 25 years later, ‘The Matrix’ is less sci-fi than tech reality
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Opinion Rizwan Virk | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

In 2003, Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom imagined a “technologically mature” civilization could easily create a simulated world. With simulated worlds far outnumbering the “real” world, the likelihood that we are in a simulation would be significantly higher than not. Remember, the simulations would be so good that you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a physical and a simulated world. Either the signals are being beamed directly into your brain, or we are simply AI characters inside the simulation. Already, millions of humans are chatting with AI characters, and millions of dollars are pouring into making AI characters more realistic.

Persons: Virk, X, CNN — It’s, ”, Lana, Lilly Wachowski, Philip K, Dick, Tessa, Morpheus, Laurence Fishburne, Keanu Reeves, Nick Bostrom, Elon Musk, Smith, Hugo Weaving, Carrie Ann, Moss, Musk, OpenAI, it’s, Reeves ’ Organizations: Labs, MIT, Physics, Eastern, Arizona State University’s College of Global Futures, Center for Science, CNN, Apple, Trinity Locations: zenentrepreneur.com, Oxford, Silicon, Silicon Valley

☆ Fintech ValidMind aims to ease Wall Street's AI risk management headaches. Here's the pitch deck it used to raise $8 million in a round led by Point72 Ventures.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Wall Street firms know the pains of having to satisfy regulators, and with advancements in artificial intelligence, there's a whole new level of scrutiny and complexity. It involves quality-and-assurance teams who test, verify, validate, and challenge the AI models before they go into production and report issues back to the engineering team to fix. In some cases, banks' technology teams are spending at least half their time documenting models for compliance, Jonas Jacobi, cofounder of fintech startup ValidMind, told Business Insider. AI models are often compared to a "black box" because it can be difficult to understand their decision-making or how the models arrive at their results. With the new injection of capital, ValidMind will build more features, like one aimed at automating the risk management of third-party vendor solutions.

Persons: Banks, Jonas Jacobi, Jacobi, ValidMind, Steve Cohen's, Mehdi Esmail, Andres Rodriguez Organizations: Business, Point72 Ventures, American Express, Third Prime Ventures, York Life, Jacobi, Technologists Locations: Palo Alto, Calif, Wall, ValidMind

☆ Meet Neema Raphael, the data whiz overseeing Goldman Sachs' army of engineers and scientists key to the bank's AI ambitions
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

We always use this code: garbage in, garbage out," Raphael, chief data officer and Goldman partner, told Business Insider. As Goldman goes all-in on AI, Raphael is emerging as a key player impacting the bank's future. How Raphael's data platform team is leading the way for AI innovation at GoldmanEven though Raphael's day can vary greatly, it always starts the same. AdvertisementOne is the data platform team, which oversees the entire data stack, including infrastructure and how people access data. For Goldman, AI is not new.

Persons: Goldman Sachs, Raphael, Goldman, It's, SecDB, That's Organizations: Service, Business, Goldman, JPMorgan, UC Berkeley, Engineering SWAT, Curation

☆ Kara Swisher warns news organizations need to ‘reinvent’ themselves amid existential crisis
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

We spoke to Swisher on Monday to get her insight on some of the challenges facing the media and tech landscape today. And they didn’t anticipate that these tech companies were going to get into media. If so, why haven’t legacy media companies been able to lure in top tech talent to improve their products? Media companies do not get to live by the same anti-gravity rules that tech companies have been able to. But media companies didn’t offer the same kind of upside.

Persons: New York CNN — Kara Swisher, ” Swisher, Swisher, it’s, BuzzFeed, they’ve, Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch, “, Donald Trump’s, Joe Biden’s, It’s, You’ve, Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, I’m, Elon, Tyler Perry, Sora, everyone’s, Adrian Chen, …, AllThingsD, Uber, We’ve, haven’t Organizations: New York CNN, Craigslist, . Media, Big Tech, New York Times, Harvard, The New York Times, Google Locations: New York

☆ Inside the rocky marriage of hedge funds and top AI talent
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

AI researchers have struggled with hedge funds' culture around proprietary secrets, which goes against the open-source philosophy foundational to AI and academia. Some recruiters, including Michael Stover, are seeing double- and triple-digit growth in AI hiring among hedge funds and prop-trading firms. For heads of AI, he said, hedge funds are dishing out a minimum of $1.5 million in total comp. But perhaps the top reason hedge funds are interested in the technology is that AI capabilities are bait in the war for investing talent. It's one of the few large US hedge funds without an executive or centralized team dedicated to AI or machine learning.

Persons: Ken Griffin's Citadel, Li Deng, Deng, Ken, Ken Griffin, Michael Stover, Stover, ExodusPoint, Balyasny, Agni Ghosh, Stott, isn't, Sumeet Chabria, Conor Twomey, Tim Mace, Mace, May's Ghosh, it's, They're, Peter Finter, Finter, That's, Ghosh, you've Organizations: Microsoft, Business, Citadel, Milken Institute, Reuters, Millennium Management, Bloomberg, Balyasny Asset Management, Man, Bank of America, Wall, Wall Street, Tech, Google Locations: Chicago, Seattle, Beverly Hills , California, London, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Wall

☆ AI researcher Joy Buolamwini cautions that if AI systems fail people of color, they fail humanity
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Monica Melton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

We’re growing some teeth as to what can be done with AI, but we also see where there’s progress, there’s attack. One of the things I like to point out with AI systems is that if your AI systems fail on people of color, you don’t have a robust system. If your AI doesn’t work on the global majority, if your AI doesn’t work for women, if your AI doesn’t work for people with disabilities, once you start expanding all of the areas we’re talking about, it comes to your AI doesn’t work for humanity. To me, that’s a proactive approach of saying, how do we build consumer AI technology in a way that’s more ethical? I was talking to Sam Altman about the climate impact of AI, especially these large language models and generative AI systems.

Persons: Joe Biden, Joy Buolamwini, Buolamwini, It’s, ”, we’ve, it’s, I’ve, there’s, We’ve, you’re, aren’t, Simone Biles, Biden, Sam Altman, Olay, we’re, There’s, We’re, that’s Organizations: Service, League, Business, Federal Trade Commission, Procter, Gamble, Big Tech Locations: Davos

☆ teamLab Borderless: Art collective behind some of the world’s most popular museums unveils new Tokyo project
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( David Mcelhinney | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Tokyo, Japan CNN —When art collective teamLab opened its flagship Tokyo venue, teamLab Borderless, in 2018, the group wanted it to fundamentally change the way we perceive and think about modern art. teamLab Borderless TokyoSo, it’s perhaps no surprise that a significant amount of hype surrounds the grand return of Borderless, which reopens this week in an upmarket new high-rise in Tokyo’s Azabudai district. teamLab Borderless TokyoKudo’s rhetorical style is circuitous, which is apt in a venue that eschews a linear approach to museum design. teamLab Borderless TokyoWandering around Borderless is more like “shinrin-yoku,” the Japanese art of forest bathing, whereby you let your body react to its environment so that it subconsciously directs your movements. teamLab Borderless TokyoThere may be no centerpiece at Borderless, but when another teamLab member, Sakurako Naka, opened a curtain to the new “Light Sculpture” series, she said the collective is “super excited” about this one.

Persons: teamLab Borderless, Takashi Kudo, “, …, ”, teamLab, motioning, There’s, Sakurako, Kudo Organizations: Japan CNN, Google, CNN Locations: Tokyo, Japan, Beijing, Melbourne , New York, London, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo’s Azabudai district, ichi, Sakurako Naka

☆ Russian war critic poses an awkward challenge for Putin and the Kremlin as the election nears
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

The Kremlin has sought to dismiss Nadezhdin's potential to upset an election whose win for Putin is seen as a done deal. Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told CNBC Thursday that "we are not inclined to exaggerate the level of support for Mr. However, Nadezhdin's recent growing popularity and prominence has changed that, political analysts say, and he now poses a challenge and a dilemma for the Kremlin as the election nears. Nadezhdin has said in interviews that he would end the war with Ukraine, describing the war as a "fatal mistake." Stanovaya believed it was likely that the CEC would not recognize a portion of the signatures that Nadezhdin has garnered.

Persons: Boris Nadezhdin, Vera Savina, Vladimir Putin's, Nadezhdin, Putin, Dmitry Peskov, isn't, Putin's, Tatiana Stanovaya, he's, Stanovaya, András, Czifra, Peskov Organizations: Civic Initiative, Central, Commission, Afp, Getty, Kremlin, CNBC, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Duma, Ukraine, Moscow, Election Commission, CEC, Eurasia, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Boris Nadezhdin Press, Central Electoral, Putin, Kremlin's Locations: Moscow, Russia, Ukraine, Russian, Mar, today's Russia, Anadolu

☆ Meet the JPMorgan executive emerging as a dark horse to succeed Jamie Dimon
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Rebecca Ungarino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Read previewA longtime JPMorgan executive who has kept a low public profile while cultivating a reputation as a successful trader with a talent for managing risk is emerging as a contender to succeed Jamie Dimon as chief executive. His new position through the internal shuffle has vaulted him more publicly and prominently into the most closely watched succession race on Wall Street. JPMorgan executive David Hudson told the publication that he returned to JPMorgan after working at Nomura in 2010 "to work for Troy." Rohrbaugh's other stops at JPMorgan have been head of global markets and head of macro markets. A senior JPMorgan executive who works with Rohrbaugh recalled that time during the pandemic.

Persons: —, Jamie Dimon, Dimon, Troy Rohrbaugh, Jennifer Piepszak, Wall, Marianne Lake, Rohrbaugh, Goldman Sachs, Euromoney, Eddie Wen, David Hudson, He's, Gary Gensler's, Goldman, Cantor Fitzgerald, Tim Soulas, Cantor, Johns Hopkins, you've, he'll, Kaja Whitehouse, Alex Morrell Organizations: Service, JPMorgan, Wall, Business, CIB, North America, Goldman, Nomura, Troy, Federal Reserve Bank of New, Global, Securities, Exchange, Banque Nationale, CooperNeff, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, World Trade Center, New York Daily News, Gilman School, Johns Hopkins University, Alpha Delta Phi, Baltimore Sun, Bloomberg Locations: Dimon, North, JPMorgan's, Canadian, Manhattan, Baltimore, Maryland, New York

☆ From Goldman to Bridgewater, here's everything we know about how Wall Street is embracing AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Bianca Chan | Michelle Abrego | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Once ChatGPT hit the scene at the end of 2022, Wall Street ramped up its efforts in AI. Here is what we know about how Wall Street is embracing AI:AdvertisementBanks accelerated their AI research and use cases due to the rise of ChatGPTWe identified 17 of the top AI executives and technologists to know at the country's biggest banks. Large language models, the form of AI behind ChatGPT, could transform how Wall Street does business. As financial firms' AI strategies come into focus, they're hiring more technologists with specialized skills. For those who want to land an AI job on Wall Street, here's everything you need to know about how tech skills and roles are changing.

Persons: ChatGPT, —, Banks, Jamie Dimon, Dimon, Goldman Sachs, Marco Argenti, Dimitris Tsementzis, aren't, Bridgewater, Charlie Flanagan, Tim Mace, AllianceBernstein, Andrew Chin Organizations: JPMorgan, Man, Service, fintech, Deutsche Bank, fund's AIA, Management Locations: dealmaking, Swedish

☆ JPMorgan Chase fights off 45 billion hacking attempts each day
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —JPMorgan Chase now fights off about 45 billion attempts a day by hackers to infiltrate its systems. That’s double what it was last year, highlighting the escalating cybersecurity challenges the bank and other Wall Street titans are facing. Speaking on the same panel, Gita Gopinath, deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said that the use of AI by hackers is concerning to regulators. More than 70% of bank executives surveyed by KPMG last year said that cyber security was a major concern for their company. That’s why staying one step ahead of it is the job of each and every one of us,” said Erdoes on Wednesday.

Persons: JPMorgan Chase, Mary Callahan Erdoes, “, ”, Banks, Gita Gopinath, Gopinath, There’s, Erdoes Organizations: New, New York CNN, JPMorgan, Wall, titans, Economic, Google, International Monetary Fund, of England, KPMG Locations: New York, Davos, Switzerland, United States, Europe, Ukraine

☆ JPMorgan says attempts by hackers are on the rise and it's spending $15 billion partly to defend against cybercrime
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewHackers are getting smarter and increasingly keen on infiltrating JPMorgan, according to Mary Callahan Erdoes, the bank's asset and wealth management chief. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. A 2023 KPMG survey of bank executives found that more than two-thirds of respondents considered cybercrime a top concern moving forward. Net interest income, or the ratio of what banks earn on loans and pay back on deposits, helped fuel those lofty numbers thanks to a surge in interest rates and higher revolving credit card balances, the company said.

Persons: —, Mary Callahan Erdoes, Erdoes Organizations: Service, JPMorgan, Business, Economic, Bloomberg, KPMG Locations: Davos

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says concerns that artificial intelligence will one day become so powerful that it will dramatically reshape and disrupt the world are overblown. "It will change the world much less than we all think and it will change jobs much less than we all think," Altman said at a conversation organized by Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "Yes, for sure, I think that's something to think about," Altman said. WATCH: OpenAI, Microsoft and NYT will likely reach a settlement

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, OpenAI's, StrictlyVC, Donald Trump's Organizations: Hope, Bloomberg, Economic, Microsoft, Iowa Republican Locations: Atlanta , Georgia, Davos, Switzerland, Iowa, OpenAI

☆ The top 6 people in artificial-intelligence edtech
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-03 | by ( Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Insider has compiled a list of 100 people at the forefront of artificial intelligence . See who made the list for education, and read about how they're making an impact. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Advances in education tech aided by AI have investors abuzz and could change the landscape of learning as we know it. Here are our picks for edtech.

Persons: — Organizations: Service, edtech

☆ AI is helping the healthcare industry and could transform the way patients get drugs and treatments
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-22 | by ( Nicholas Fearn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

In the pharmaceutical industry, AI may one day accelerate new-drug development. In the foreseeable future, McClain expects the healthcare industry to use AI technology to design personalized medicines. Risks to considerWhile AI offers promise for the healthcare industry, there are also a variety of risks professionals using AI must consider and mitigate. Showalter said that a lack of "comprehensive regulations" can also make using AI technology in healthcare settings risky. With this in mind, he said, the medical industry must understand the "fundamentals of AI and its applications in healthcare."

Persons: —, Sean McClain, McClain, Tim Showalter, Showalter, it's, Fred, haven't, Surya Josyula, Josyula Organizations: Experts, Service, Northwestern Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, UW Medicine, University of California, Fujitsu, Aichi Cancer, Fujitsu Laboratories of America Locations: University of California San Diego, Nagoya, Japan, China, United States

☆ Zuckerberg says Threads will dip its toe in the 'fediverse' as it opens to Europe
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-14 | by ( Kevin Collier | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Meta will begin testing a system that allows posts from its microblogging platform Threads to appear on other social media services, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday. The fediverse is still tiny compared to Threads, with about 11 million users, the vast majority of them on Mastodon. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, wrote on Threads that the platform is starting with the ability to follow Threads users from other ActivityPub platforms, adding that the ability for Threads users to follow accounts from other platforms is in the works. If Threads goes through with full ActivityPub integration, people will be able to follow Threads users and see their posts without having to join the platform (Threads currently forces users to sign up through an Instagram account). Similarly, Threads users will be able to follow users and see posts from across ActivityPub's network.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Evan Prodromou, It's, X, Adam Mosseri, Instagram, Mike McCue, Flipboard, Christine Lemmer, Webber Organizations: Meta, Mozilla Locations: Europe, United States, Israel

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