A practical handbook examining how established businesses can use their unique advantages to fight back and win in a digital arena too often dominated by tech s…
A practical handbook examining how established businesses can use their unique advantages to fight back and win in a digital arena too often dominated by tech s…
The antidote for bureaucratic creep? An annual spring cleaning to prune long-winded reports, time-sucking meetings, and, yes, value-destroying managers.
AI Boom Threatens to Suck Resources Away From Road, Bridge Work
The data center construction boom is sucking up resources from other parts of the market. State and local projects may face particular competition for labor.
Google and Others Are Developing AI That Can Hear Signs of Sickness
Google got together last week with an Indian AI startup to roll out a bioacoustics health-care model to detect disease from human sounds. Bioacou-what? Allow me to explain. But first...
‘Upflation’ Is the New Retail Trend Driving Up Prices for US Consumers
First there was ‘shrinkflation.’ Now, consumers are confronting ‘upflation’ as companies seek to turn around the $100 billion personal care and beauty market.
Amazon Rushes Out Latest AI Chip to Take On Nvidia, Google
Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit raced to get the latest version of its artificial intelligence chip to market, renewing efforts to sell hardware capable of rivaling products from Nvidia Corp. and Google.
The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All
While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.
Microsoft Pulls Back on Data Centers From Chicago to Jakarta
Microsoft Corp. has pulled back on data center projects around the world, suggesting the company is taking a harder look at its plans to build the server farms powering artificial intelligence and the cloud.
AI Cuts Scam Losses, Speeds Up Home Loans at Top Australia Bank
Commonwealth Bank of Australia said generative artificial intelligence tools cut customer losses from scams in half. It has also helped to shorten the process for mortgage pre-approvals to as little as 10 minutes.
Amazon Employees Publicly Gripe About Work Culture on LinkedIn
Amazon.com Inc. workers’ complaints about company culture — a frequent sight on anonymous and internal forums — turned public this week with a popular LinkedIn post that struck a chord with current employees.
Chinese Firm Announces Huge Leap in Offshore Wind Turbine Size
China’s Dongfang Electric Corp. has surprised the offshore wind industry with an announcement that it’s built a new turbine radically larger than anything previously available in the sector.
Big Tech Fails to Convince Wall Street That AI Is Paying Off
Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. had one job heading into this earnings season: show that the billions of dollars they’ve each sunk into the infrastructure propelling the artificial intelligence boom is translating into real sales.