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The premium OLED TV uses quantum dots, an advanced color tech that Samsung also uses in its QLED TVs. New 2023 Samsung OLED TVs are just starting to hit the market, but they're considerably more expensive than the S95B. Deal Samsung 65-inch S95B OLED 4K TV Samsung's high-end 4K OLED TV uses quantum dots to achieve some of the best color performance on the market. Steven Cohen/InsiderLike other Samsung TVs, the S95B uses the Tizen operating system rather than interfaces like Roku, Fire TV, or Android TV. AmazonThe Samsung S95B is an excellent buy for anyone who wants a high-end TV under $2,000.

☆ Experts from Amberdata, Custodia Bank, and United States for Kraken discuss the role digital assets are going to play in the future of finance
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Elizabeth Wood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Today's financial system is growing, transforming, and increasingly focused on the adoption of digital assets. Shawn Douglas, cofounder and CEO of Amberdata, said that, "Digital assets are the "financialization of the internet," citing blockchain to safeguard real-world assets and, in digital rights management (like NFTs) as examples. CEO of Custodia Bank, Caitlin Long, believes the role of digital assets exists in the payments world. There are, of course, challenges to adopting digital assets including concerns about centralized banks and government agencies. Throughout the conversation, Hirsch remained focused on the potential digital assets have to enable greater freedom globally.

March 27 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink has approached one of the biggest U.S. neurosurgery centers as a potential clinical trials partner as it prepares to test its devices on humans once regulators allow for it, according to six people familiar with the matter. Barrow has helped standardize brain implant surgeries in which the patient can remain asleep, a key step in making it more acceptable to a broad set of the population, Ponce said. This is in line with Musk's vision for Neuralink's brain chip. The billionaire CEO of Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) and majority owner of Twitter has said Neuralink's brain implants will become as ubiquitous as Lasik eye surgery. Neuralink's implant is a brain computer interface (BCI) device, which uses electrodes that penetrate the brain or sit on its surface to provide direct communication to computers.

☆ Bank runs have the crypto industry on high alert. 3 experts explain why the latest batch is especially worrisome — and what comes next.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Only a decade ago, bank runs happened at a much slower pace. The era of digital bank runsOne thing the past few weeks has made clear is that bank runs now unfold differently, especially for smaller banks that service specialized sectors. "Bank runs are evolving into a different and much more dangerous beast because they happen faster," Baker said. By comparison, on March 9, SVB lost $42 billion in a day — and it was a smaller bank, Baker added. Long said she warned regulators again after FTX collapsed that banks servicing the crypto sector face the danger of bank runs.

☆ Top Wall Street analysts prefer these five stocks despite ongoing uncertainty
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( Tipranks.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Here are five stocks chosen by Wall Street's top analysts, according to TipRanks, a platform that ranks analysts based on their past performance. Nonetheless, several analysts, including Evercore ISI analyst Amit Daryanani, remain bullish on the stock. Foot LockerThis week, sneaker and athletic apparel retailer Foot Locker (FL) delivered upbeat results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022. Guggenheim analyst Robert Drbul expects Foot Locker to benefit from CEO Dillon's "extensive knowledge and deep understanding of off-mall and big-box retailing." (See Foot Locker Stock Chart on TipRanks)Cisco Systems

☆ How this 26-year-old went from running bitcoin trading desks in Taco Bells to creating the largest crypto exchange in Africa
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +28 min

Yellow Card CEO Chris Maurice just before meeting with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Accra, Ghana. Chris MauriceFrom there, Yellow Card users can send or receive digital cash in eligible markets. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards Yellow Card CEO Chris Maurice in Accra, Ghana loading cash onto his Mobile Money account, MoMo. Yellow Card has facilitated $1.75 billion in transactions since launching in 2019 and has about 220 employees – mostly in Africa. A resident checks his phone outside a mobile money kiosk in the Kibera district of Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022.

“VCs think this is the new internet,” a generative AI founder in the United States told Reuters. While the closure of Silicon Valley Bank may hamper debt financing, venture capitalists said interest in funding AI startups remains high, especially for top early-stage founders. Investors sense opportunity, even for a sale if not an initial public offering; some are betting that AI startups might outpace bigger rivals, encumbered by their size. You.com, a search engine company founded in 2020 and backed by Salesforce’s CEO Marc Benioff, has found new life from incorporating generative AI technology. It has attracted more attention from users and investors, handling millions of searches per day, the company told Reuters.

Rakuten Kobo Clara 2E The Kobo Clara 2E offers a variety of features that avid readers will love, like a waterproof design and a comfortable power button. At this price point, the Kobo Clara 2E is rivaled only by the 8GB Kindle Paperwhite. Sarah Saril/InsiderThe Kobo Clara 2E makes a great companion for reading in different environments with its adjustable brightness and color temperature. On the plus side, the Kobo Clara 2E boasts great battery life, and it lives up to the manufacturer's promise. Listen to Kobo Audiobooks with a Bluetooth speaker or headphonesListening to audiobooks on the Kobo Clara 2E is as simple as connecting via Bluetooth.

☆ Y Combinator-backed headless commerce startup Vue Storefront just raised $20 million with this 14-slide pitch deck
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Y Combinator-backed Vue Storefront has developed a frontend system for e-commerce sites. Vue Storefront, a Y Combinator-backed startup that aims to improve customers' experiences with e-commerce sites, just raised $20 million in fresh funds. The Polish company, founded in 2020, has built a plug-and-play frontend system for marketplace sites. This is what customers see and interact with, rather than the behind-the-scenes backend system, and is known as "headless commerce". Vue Storefront is rooted in open-source development, having spun out from a design agency.

☆ Everything we know about Chinese app Temu. It sells a weird variety of things for cheap — and has some wondering if it's legit.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Grace Dean | Mary Hanbury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

It's listed as the top free app in both the Google Play store and the Apple App Store, ahead of TikTok, Amazon, and Instagram. These cost savings can then be passed on to the consumer, a spokesperson for Temu told Insider. But for the average North American shopper, such low prices can actually be disconcerting, especially when they don't know much about Temu. A spokesperson for Temu told Insider that it uses its parent company's supply chain and logistics network to ship these items. Read more: I ordered my first 4 items off Chinese e-commerce app Temu and came away annoyed with the dozens of marketing emails sent after making a single purchase

☆ Grimes said she got a brain gadget for her birthday from a company competing with Elon Musk's Neuralink
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Grace Kay | Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Neurosity's device is designed to help people focus, but some developers are using it as a BCI. "Getting a non invasive brain computer interface for my birthday (!!!!? Grimes' birthday 'Crown' measures brain activity, and is designed to help people focusNeurosity's headset uses electroencephalogram technology, or EEG, to measure brain activity by placing small metal electrodes on a person's scalp. In a now-deleted tweet, the singer said Neurosity's device allowed her to use her mind to move a cursor. Meanwhile, Neurosity's device is already on the market.

☆ General Motors selects Adobe Experience Cloud to deliver real-time customer engagement and personalized EV journeys
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Adobe With Insider Studios | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

To support this goal, GM has selected Adobe Experience Cloud to deliver one-to-one personalized interactions at scale for millions of its customers. For instance, if an individual has just purchased an EV, GM can immediately deliver communications on charging stations, routine maintenance, and helpful mobile app features. For instance, if an individual has just purchased an EV, GM can immediately deliver communications on charging stations, routine maintenance, and helpful mobile app features. Adobe Customer Journey Analytics provides cross-channel insights, empowering GM teams to optimize marketing efforts and customer experiences over time. A single source of truth about GM customers can be leveraged by any team that touches the customer experience.

☆ Bill Gates says that in the future ChatGPT will be like 'having a white-collar worker available to help you'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Bill Gates said in a blog post that ChatGPT will be like "having a white-collar worker" as an assistant. Gates said it was realistic that people would use AI as a digital personal assistant in the future. "Although humans are still better than GPT at a lot of things, there are many jobs where these capabilities are not used much," Gates wrote. "As computing power gets cheaper, GPT's ability to express ideas will increasingly be like having a white-collar worker available to help you with various tasks," Gates continued. Gates wrote that firms could also create company-wide agents which would have access to sales information, finance documents, product schedules, and industry news and which employees could consult.

☆ Bill Gates says OpenAI's GPT is the most important advance in technology since 1980
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Microsoft founder Bill Gates speaks during the Global Fund Seventh Replenishment Conference in New York on September 21, 2022. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says that OpenAI's GPT AI model is the most revolutionary advance in technology since he first saw a modern graphical desktop environment (GUI) in 1980. Now, Gates sees parallels with OpenAI's GPT models, which can write text that resembles human output and generate nearly usable computer code. "The whole experience was stunning," Gates wrote. Gates and Microsoft have close ties to OpenAI, which developed the GPT model.

☆ Microsoft Can’t Afford Turbulence From New Copilot
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Dan Gallagher | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

CEO Satya Nadella presides over a company that dominates the market for office app software. Clippy just got a serious promotion. Now Microsoft has to make sure this one doesn’t become unhinged. Microsoft, helmed by CEO Satya Nadella , announced plans on Tuesday to integrate the artificial intelligence technology powering the popular ChatGPT chatbot into its suite of Office software tools. That adoption will take the form of a new interface called Copilot, which can write Word documents, create PowerPoint presentations, analyze Excel spreadsheets and even reply to emails through Outlook—essentially a far more powerful tool than the Office Assistant dubbed Clippy that Microsoft once deployed through its Office products.

☆ Microsoft Can’t Afford Turbulence from New Copilot
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Dan Gallagher | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

CEO Satya Nadella presides over a company with a relatively tiny share of search traffic. Microsoft just has to make sure this one doesn’t become unhinged. Microsoft, helmed by CEO Satya Nadella , announced plans on Tuesday to integrate the artificial intelligence technology powering the popular ChatGPT chatbot into its suite of Office software tools. That adoption will take the form of a new interface called Copilot, which can write Word documents, create PowerPoint presentations, analyze Excel spreadsheets and even reply to emails through Outlook—essentially a far more powerful tool than the Office Assistant dubbed Clippy that Microsoft once deployed through its Office products. The new Copilot is also the next step in Microsoft’s aggressive campaign to adopt generative AI into its products, following a similar announcement last month related to its internet search business.

☆ Microsoft adds OpenAI technology to Word and Excel
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Photographer: Charles Pertwee/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMicrosoft is bringing generative artificial intelligence technologies like the popular ChatGPT chatting app to its Microsoft 365 suite of business software. features, dubbed Copilot, will be available in some of the company's most popular business apps like Word, PowerPoint and Excel. The Copilot technology is built upon a type of artificial intelligence software known as a large language model, or LLM. Microsoft executives demonstrated some of the capabilities of its Copilot tool on Thursday during an online presentation. In February, Microsoft debuted a new version of its Bing search engine that included a chatbot powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 language technology.

☆ Baidu shares drop to 8-week lows after company reveals ChatGPT rival
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Men interact with a Baidu AI robot near the company logo at its headquarters in Beijing, China April 23, 2021. During a livestreamed release event, Baidu CEO Robin Li emphasized the company's product — called Ernie bot — is not perfect. Baidu is prioritizing initial Ernie bot access for what it calls 650 ecosystem business partners, which include some media companies, banks and car firms. Within an hour of the Ernie bot announcement, Baidu said 30,000 corporate clients had joined the waitlist for access to the chatbot. Baidu's Li said Ernie bot had similar issues if used enough, and that it wasn't perfect.

☆ We're about to find out whether AI might replace those 200,000 laid-off tech workers as Silicon Valley prioritizes efficiency
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

As companies like Meta and Twitter get leaner, AI could replace those engineers. A consistent research finding is that AI tools make humans more efficient. "One reason that large firms struggle with new tech like AI: managers are squeamish about risk," Mollick tweeted. The best pro-human case is that workers are kept on and given access to AI tools like ChatGPT. It may be time for tech workers to update their favorite smug adage: Learn to code.

☆ Corporate Sustainability Becomes a Team Sport
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Rochelle Toplensky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +7 min

Chief sustainability officers have historically been technical experts focused on helping companies decode their carbon footprint. Today’s CSOs are business-transformation specialists who run point for companies in their sustainability efforts, supported by a team of experts. “You have to start thinking in 2022 about the demands that are going to be a trending topic in 2025.”Judith Wiese, chief people and sustainability officer at Siemens. His team includes experts in technology, industrial processes, financial markets, sustainability frameworks and reporting standards. Agustin Delgado Martin, chief innovation and sustainability officer at Iberdrola.

☆ A TikTok exec says the company overrode its own algorithm to boost views for the World Cup and Taylor Swift, comparing the strategy to Netflix's recommendations
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Dan Whateley | Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

TikTok overrode its algorithm to boost views on the World Cup and Taylor Swift, a company exec said. TikTok's Jeff Louisma compared the practice to how Netflix promotes certain movies on its homepage. Putting guardrails on TikTok's algorithm is a focus for US officials that fear influence campaigns. TikTok has manipulated its own algorithm to promote certain tentpole moments such as the World Cup or when Taylor Swift first joined the platform, a company cybersecurity exec said on Saturday, speaking at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. TikTok staff also have other mechanisms that can influence the type of content that's surfaced to users on its app.

☆ A TikTok exec says it's gamed its own algorithm to boost views for the World Cup and Taylor Swift, comparing the strategy to Netflix's recommendations
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Dan Whateley | Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

☆ Neuralink competitor Science launches new platform to accelerate medical device innovation
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Biotechnology startup and Neuralink competitor Science on Monday launched a new platform that aims to make it easier for other companies to quickly develop and produce medical devices. For many startups, that cost is too much to bear, but Hodak is hoping Science Foundry can help. The company's new platform Science Foundry aims to support companies working on similarly ambitious ideas. The cost of using Science Foundry is comparable to the cost of working with academic facilities, which are "cheap to get started," Hodak said. Hodak said the platform will benefit Science and the broader industry as a whole.

☆ I was a die-hard Apple iPad fan for over a decade. But I've grown frustrated and have mostly discarded it — I'm not the only one.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Michael Gartenberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Former Apple exec Michael Gartenberg has an iPad Pro and has owned various iPads over the past decade. His iPad used to be his constant travel companion, more used than his laptop — but not anymore. He says the iPad is at an intersection between failure and ongoing success, and Apple must pay attention. So iPad users, like myself, are paying a premium for hardware that is far more advanced than the software we are able to run on it. If Apple wants to continue to succeed with the iPad, it will need to address these challenges head-on.

☆ Roku will sell its first company-made smart TVs exclusively at Best Buy
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A video sign displays the logo for Roku Inc, a Fox-backed video streaming firm, in Times Square after the company's IPO at the Nasdaq Market in New York, September 28, 2017. Roku said Thursday it will sell the first smart TVs designed and made by the company exclusively at Best Buy and the electronic retailer's website. Roku's hardware items, including streaming players and sound-amplifying devices, have often been the money-losing parts of the business. Roku CEO Anthony Wood told CNBC in January he is optimistic about selling the new TVs. The new TVs will feature Roku's voice remote pro, Bluetooth private listening, automatic brightness and local dimming.

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