Nick Pickles, the former head of global affairs at Elon Musk’s social media platform X, is joining forces with one of Musk’s rivals, his fellow OpenAI cofounder Sam Altman.
Same executive board, different roles. Historically, that’s been how CIOs and CMOs work and operate across a company. But as we close out 2024, this siloed approach must come to an end. For brands to be more relevant, competitive, and innovative in 2025, they need to identify and invest in opportunities for synergy and collaboration between these two roles. After all, the CIO and the CMO will be the most powerful voices in the room in 2025.
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Fraud is getting smarter, thanks to AI
Mary Louis’s excitement to move into an apartment in Massachusetts in the spring of 2021 turned to dismay when Louis, a Black woman, received an email saying that a “third-party service” had denied her tenancy.
That third-party service included an algorithm designed to score rental applicants, which became the subject of a class action lawsuit, with Loui
Companies hiring tech talent are coming face to face with a new reality—economic issues are placing pressure on them to do more with fewer workers, but technology is evolving faster than their talent pipelines often can.
Our recent report explores how companies are responding to investment cuts by focusing their teams on specialized skills in high-growth areas. The problem is these emerging fields are
This Thanksgiving, 5.84 million people will descend upon America’s airports, en route to reunite with their loved ones. Many of these travelers may be asked for a facial scan when they go through security.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began its controversial facial recognition program in 2020, using biometric technology to match travelers with t
I am so over AI-generated art. It just needs to go away. Please.
Like everyone, I was captivated by the tech as it emerged in 2022. As a novel technology, it was pretty mind-blowing. Type “Cat fighting in WW2” into a text-to-video generator, and in no time, you can get a clip of an American shorthair wielding an M1 Thompson submachine gun against Nazis.
A big draw of AI-generated art was that people without significant visual art skills, like me, could now whip up pretty
Humans are beginning to really reckon with the possibility of sharing our planet with some far smarter non-corporeal entities. That outcome raises a lot of big questions: How do we begin to lay the groundwork for a good relationship with these AIs both in our labs and in our governing bodies? How do we train them to make discoveries and help resolve conflicts with human values in mind?
It’s these kinds of weighty i
You wouldn’t think wellness influencers with a passion for organic produce and unpasteurized milk would have much in common with President-elect Donald Trump, whose regular diet consists of Big Macs, Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, and Diet Coke.
However, since Trump’s election victory, more and more influencers
The severing of a key subsea telecoms cable running under Europe’s Baltic Sea has caused a diplomatic incident this week, as both country’s politicians called the act “sabotage”—all while Russia, whom many say is the likely instigator, denies responsibility.