ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 1,667,89 points or 2.50% to 68,402.13 • Shanghai increased 8.872 points or 0.22% to 4,083.974 • Hang Seng decreased 405.11 points or -1.56% to 25,633.21 • ASX 200 increased 61.30 points or 0.70% to 8,785.70 • SENSEX decreased 303.67 points or -0.41% to 74,346.17 • Nifty50 decreased 77.95 points or -0.33% to 23,405.60 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD decreased 0.0049 or -0.68% to 0.71314 • NZDUSD decreased 0.00609 or -1.03% to 0.58631 • USDJPY increased 0.122 or 0.08%…
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Uber is cutting 23% of jobs in its recruitment and human resources divisions, Bloomberg reported Wednesday morning. While Uber didn’t specify the number of employees impacted, the cuts account for less than 1% of the company’s workforce of 34,000. Other HR employees who were approved to work remotely were asked to return to the office to comply with Uber’s year-old hybrid work policy. In a memo to company leaders, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said that the “changes are necessary to maximize the effectiveness of the People team and the enormous potential ahead of us.” The news arrives just three weeks…
For most of the internet era, online shopping has started with a product in mind. A shopper has an idea of what she wants, types in keywords, opens a dozen tabs, and compares specs and prices while slogging toward a decision. AI is now changing that, not only speeding up the research, but also creating a new consumer behavior. That’s because we don’t naturally think in terms of products. We think in pain points, goals, and constraints: “I need to look alive for my 9 a.m. meeting after my red-eye flight.” “I need ideas to get my toddler to eat…
By all accounts, the new RuPaul Charles-led movie Stop! That! Train! is meant to be nothing more than a stupid good time. The movie from Hairspray director Adam Shankman is a spiritual successor to disaster comedies like Airplane!, just with the queerness turned up to 11. Drag icon Charles stars as President Judy Gagwell, who’s tasked with stopping a runaway train—the Glamazonian Express—that’s headed straight for a deadly “Stormaganza.” The movie stars several RuPaul’s Drag Race alumni, and early reviews say that Stop! That! Train! features the same camp comedy the reality show is known for. But among those pre-release…
Earlier this year, Jeremy Watt was on a call with Jacob Tierney and Brendan Brady, executive producers of Crave’s Heated Rivalry. For Watt, cofounder of the Toronto-based lifestyle and apparel brand Province of Canada, it was the culmination of a crazy run of events that occurred after his company found itself sucked into the viral vortex of social media chatter around the hit show. In episode 2, one of the main characters, Shane Hollander (played by Hudson Williams), wore a Team Canada fleece jacket, seen just for a few moments on-screen. But it was enough to make fans start clamoring…
The most powerful AI models are now treated, at least in Washington, as potential national-security events. Before companies release them to the public, the government wants a chance to see what they can do: whether they can discover software vulnerabilities, assist cyberattacks, or otherwise introduce risks that federal officials may not fully understand until the models are already in use. President Trump’s new executive order, signed Tuesday, is meant to give the government that chance. But the final version leaves AI companies with considerable control over the process. It asks them to voluntarily submit advanced models for government review 30…
AI-generated summaries in Google search results take content from online publishers while reducing traffic to their websites—a tricky relationship that has been seemingly inevitable until now. Today, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that publishers will no longer have to allow Google’s AI-generated tools to use their content in exchange for appearing in the search engine’s traditional links. “In a world first, publishers will now have effective tools to prevent their content being used to power AI features in search, such as AI Overviews,” the CMA stated in its announcement. “This will put publishers, like news organisations, in…
Aza Raskin, a cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology, has spent years sounding the alarm about where the race to build powerful AI is taking us. Just days after the center’s other cofounder visited the Vatican, Raskin unpacks the significance of Pope Leo XIV’s sweeping new encyclical on artificial intelligence, and exposes the incentive structures pushing Silicon Valley toward dangerous territory—while making the case that it’s not too late to change course. This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response, hosted by the former editor-in-chief of Fast Company Bob Safian. From the team behind the Masters…
Coursera, the online learning platform that hosts online courses from major universities and tech companies, announced on Wednesday a new app called Ollie, which offers bite-size lessons that take only a minute or two to complete. The lessons include short vertical videos, often around 90 seconds long, clipped from Coursera’s extensive library of learning materials. Users can find lessons recommended based on their interests through a front page or a social media-style feed, scrolling down to explore a range of topics or scrolling right to dive deeper into a particular subject. When they come across something interesting, they can watch…
I opened my South by Southwest (SXSW) session with a confession: I have a video from over a decade ago where I am impersonating Ron Burgundy from “Anchorman.” Stiff delivery, robotic cadence, completely inauthentic. Did I say video? I’ll clarify and say this was footage broadcast on the local news during my stint as a local TV news reporter. I thought that’s what “being on camera” was supposed to look like. I was wrong. Today I speak on stages across the country, host a podcast, and coach founders and executives on how to show up confidently on video. The transformation…