Walgreens doubles down on prescription-filling robots to cut costs, free up pharmacists amid turnaround
Walgreens is expanding the number of its retail stores served by its micro-fulfillment centers as it works to turn itself around and prepares to go private.
Google CEO: AI development is finally slowing down—'the low-hanging fruit is gone’
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI development may feel slower in 2025 — and tech companies will "need deeper breakthroughs" than today's chatbots to get ahead.
Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price
Amazon is upgrading its decade-old Alexa voice assistant with generative AI and plans to charge a monthly subscription fee to offset the cost of the technology.
Climate Change and U.S. Property Insurance: A Stormy Mix | Council on Foreign Relations
Accelerating risks and damage from climate change are spurring private insurers in the United States to limit coverage in a growing number of areas, thus imposing mounting stress on local communities and straining the country’s overall economic health.
The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
Zheng and Meister write about the paradoxical slowness of human behavior. Although
our senses gather data at 109 bits/s, our overall information throughput is only 10
bits/s. This stark contrast touches on many fundamental aspects of brain function.
Advancing precision care in pregnancy through a treatable fetal findings list
This integrative review proposes criteria for a “treatable fetal findings list” to
guide secondary findings reporting from prenatal sequencing. We provide a list of
genetic disorders with fetal interventions or immediate post-natal therapies and address
potential benefits and limitations of this approach in caring for pregnant individuals,
fetuses, and newborns.
AI-generated images creating unrealistic expectations, hairdressers say
Dean Allan, owner and stylist at the Beauty Parlour, said it's more and more commonplace that when a client comes in for a haircut, they show him a photo that’s AI-generated. He says most people can tell that it’s not real — for now.