Electric vehicle battery prices are expected to fall almost 50% by 2026
Google’s Grip on Search Slips as TikTok and AI Startup Mount Challenge
As new offerings for advertisers arrive, Google’s share of the U.S. search ad market is projected by one research firm to drop below 50% next year.
Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants
Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.
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Opinion: Coffee prices are rising. Wake up and smell the climate change
Will the price of coffee, a crop hurt by rising temperatures and drought, jolt American politicians and voters into paying attention to global warming?
A Chevrolet Dealership Used ChatGPT for Customer Service and Learned That AI Isn't Always on Your Side
This is why you need to narrow your AI's scope before deploying it.
Northern Lights, the First Major Carbon Capture and Storage Project in Norway
All about the Northern Lights project, designed to offer European industrial companies a solution for safely and permanently storing their CO2 emissions under the seabed.
Northern Lights is the first project in the world allowing industrial companies to transport and sequester their CO2 emissions. The project is owned in equal shares by TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell.
DOL Outlines How Employers Can Avoid Discrimination in AI Hiring
The US Labor Department rolled out a new website Tuesday to instruct employers and workers on how to ensure artificial intelligence technology doesn’t lead to discrimination or limit accessibility for disabled job seekers.
Lionsgate signs deal to train AI model on its movies and shows
Lionsgate seems to be going all in on generative AI.
Sustainability Is Falling on the CEO To-Do List. Customers Still See It as a Priority.
AI, growth, inflation and geopolitics were all more important to CEOs in a recent survey.
This 23-Floor Manhattan Office Building Just Sold at a 97.5% Discount
The sale price of 135 West 50th Street in Midtown, which is only 35 percent full, was a sign of how much the pandemic upended the market for office buildings in New York City.
Goldman Investment Arm Joins Firms Quitting Major Climate Club
The asset management unit of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has walked away from the world’s biggest climate alliance for investors, marking the latest in a string of similar defections amid continued Republican Party attacks on green finance.
Cozytech
Towards a viable alt-tech philosophy made up of individually delusional, collectively rational parts
Companies are reshaping operations to cope with a changing climate
Companies are increasingly changing the way they do business to cope with increasingly frequent episodes of extreme weather.
Global Market Outlook For Solar Power 2024 - 2028 - SolarPower Europe
The AI job interviewer will see you now
AI interview services say they’re eliminating bias — but not everyone agrees.
Bhutan’s first AI startup is seven college kids in a dorm
NoMindBhutan services prominent clients like the Bhutan National Bank and Drukair - Royal Bhutan Airlines.
Dendup and Samdrup are the founders of NoMindBhutan, the country’s first artificial intelligence startup that makes and deploys chatbots.
ut given Bhutan’s closed physical and digital economy, NoMindBhutan’s journey is not easy. Startup and tech industry experts believe that for Bhutan to truly benefit from AI, the entire ecosystem needs to evolve.
“One of the main challenges we face is the inability to access international payment platforms such as Stripe and PayPal. Additionally, we do not have access to cloud servers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to host our AI models, which is crucial for reducing costs and improving the quality of our AI,
GenAI sinks into the 'trough of disillusionment'
GenAI faces growing skepticism as it struggles to deliver on high expectations Early excitement for ChatGPT and LLMs has shifted to concerns about costs, p | GenAI faces growing skepticism as initial excitement wanes, with the industry now focusing on overcoming practical and ethical challenges.
“People believe it really can solve a lot of things that it can't. I mean, the unfortunate thing is that OpenAI was amazing. But it was useless. It can't really do anything.”
From Burnout to Balance: AI-Enhanced Work Models for the Future
Research from The Upwork Research Institute reveals that while leaders expect AI to boost productivity, it may be increasing employee workload.
Nearly half (47%) of employees using AI say they have no idea how to achieve the productivity gains their employers expect, and 77% say these tools have actually decreased their productivity and added to their workload.
By introducing new technology into outdated models and systems, organizations are failing to unlock the full productivity value of generative AI across their workforce
How to keep the 'human' in human resources with AI-based tools
Organizations are increasingly using AI-based tools but HR professionals have ethical concerns. A new HR toolkit provides practical guidance on AI ethics.
bringing together and equipping people with the necessary skills; dispelling the AI aura; and establishing the necessary organizational infrastructure.
A Dutch coffee brand is recruiting a Board of Little Directors (aged 8-12)
Acknowledging the long-term impact of decisions made today, De Koffiejongens wants to ask preteens what they'd do if they were in charge.
Ikea Will Pay You Real Money to Work in Its Virtual Roblox Store
Building on the internet’s love for the Swedish furniture store, Ikea is looking to hire workers for its forthcoming Roblox virtual outpost online. It pays real money, not Robux—as long as you’re 18.
Meet the ‘endineer’ who helps companies design the end of life for products
Joe Macleod wants brands to focus on what happens to products at the end of their life cycle—not just for the environment but for the entire consumer experience.
eBay to Add AI-Powered Image-Based Listing Tool
eBay will be adding an image-based listing tool to its range of offerings powered by artificial intelligence (AI). This tool will allow sellers to simply take or upload a photo within the eBay app and watch as AI automatically fills in item information details, the company said in a Thursday (Sept. 7) article posted on its website. […]
Are We Watching The Internet Die?
Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual price,
Don't buy their lies. Generative AI might be steeped in the language of high fantasy, but it’s a tool, one that they will not admit is a terribly-flawed and unprofitable way to feed the growth-at-all-costs tech engine.
Thinking outside the bin at the world’s first zero-waste restaurant - Positive News
Waste is a failure of the imagination, goes the adage at Silo: the world’s first zero-waste restaurant
The big design freak-out: A generation of design leaders grapple with their future
The first generation of corporate design leaders are transitioning out of their executive roles at companies like IBM, McKinsey, and others. What comes next?
The sources I’ve spoken with could only recall one company that filled an executive level chief design officer role in the second half of the year—PayPal, who brought on Rachel Kobetz from Expedia, in September of 2023.
Now there is more inspection and less trust. As leaders we need to learn how to be really awesome stewards with resources. We need to defend the investment in design with total clarity. That part is new.”
The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism
Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.
Tesla overtaken by China’s BYD as world’s biggest EV maker
Fourth-quarter sales from Elon Musk’s group beat estimates but fall behind Chinese rival for the first time
Design Thinking Misses the Mark (SSIR)
Design thinking has failed to deliver on its promise to solve the world’s thorniest social challenges. Adopting a critical design stance can help designers serve communities, rather than their own methodology.
we explain why design thinking as typically practiced has not been able to create impactful and sustainable solutions to complex social issues. Instead, we call for a critical stance on design,
decontextualization also perpetuates the myth that design thinking is an objective and apolitical approach. Within this fiction, designers perceive themselves as impartial agents in design projects
When communities feel as if they’re being repeatedly asked to recount their experiences without witnessing the changes promised by the organizations that ask for their stories, participation becomes tokenizing, extractive, and triggering.
In the design-thinking process, the organization initiating the project and/or the professional designers working on it typically frame the problem at the beginning. However, external actors who do not experience the problem firsthand rely on assumptions to determine the accuracy, validity, and/or relative importance of the problem.
A critical design stance questions whether prioritizing novelty serves organizational priorities and designers’ freedom of creativity above community needs and desires. Impact does not necessarily require developing novel services or products but can result from leveraging resources to support communities’ initiatives—as the local government organization Southwark Council in London realized after working with the consultancy Engine Service Design in 2009. Engine collaborated with the council and citizens on solutions on issues related to health and the domestic environment. To the surprise of the Southwark team, who thought that residents would request new services or technology, several of the residents’ ideas relied on already-available community experts and resources. For instance, one idea proposed to use many of Southwark’s spaces and buildings for community-building activities like dinners and sports activities. Another recognized the presence of local food and health experts and recommended that these experts coach families on how to make healthy meals.
a critical design stance might ask whether scaling should be equated with increasing the number of beneficiaries. Could it instead be about solidifying or improving what an organization does in service to the same group of people?
Rather than focusing on demonstrating impact by increasing its numbers of beneficiaries, Amartha chose to focus on deep impact by doing more for the same communities in one region.
we urge those who practice design thinking to ground their practice in a critical design stance and to be reflexive and deliberate about the intentions, actions, and effects of their work