Category Archives: Business

STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus

Students and young workers from over 120 universities have pledged to refuse work at Google and Amazon until the Israeli contract is dropped.

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Airbnb’s Olympics Push Could Help it Win Over Paris

Paris officials have placed tough new restrictions on Airbnb rentals in recent years. The company is using the Olympics to try and win over locals and broaden its footprint in the iconic city.

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Orkut’s Founder Is Still Dreaming of a Social Media Utopia

In the mid-2000s, Google engineer Orkut Büyükkökten’s self-titled social network briefly took the world by storm before disappearing. Now he’s back, with a plan for a happier social media.

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OpenAI-Backed Nonprofits Have Gone Back on Their Transparency Pledges

Two organizations that handed out unconditional cash grants told WIRED that they will no longer disclose their financial statements and internal policies. Their stance follows a similar denial by OpenAI.

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Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing

Extreme weather threatens the investment value of many properties, but financing for climate mitigation efforts are only just getting going.

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AI Is Coming for Big Tech Jobs—but Not in the Way You Think

Companies aren’t replacing workers with AI yet. But they are sacrificing thousands of jobs in the race to further innovation in the technology.

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Light-Based Chips Could Help Slake AI’s Ever-Growing Thirst for Energy

Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. They also face major obstacles.

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No Matter How You Package It, Apple Intelligence Is AI

Apple is eager to show us that its approach to artificial intelligence is safer, better, and more useful than the competition. Maybe that’s just a hallucination, but it’s working.

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I Spent a Week Eating Discarded Restaurant Food. But Was It Really Going to Waste?

Food app Too Good To Go promises to cut waste by directing hungry bargain hunters to leftover restaurant food. But the week I spent living off the app had me wondering if Too Good To Go is too good to … Continue reading

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As Google Targets Advertisers, It Could Learn a Lot From Bing

Microsoft and Google are bringing ads to their AI search experiences. But users don’t always find it helpful.

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