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The Download: the future of AlphaFold, and chatbot privacy concerns
In 2017, fresh off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind had moved on from game-playing AI to a secret project to predict the...
Google stock price is surging today as AI sets it up to become next $4 trillion giant. Here’s why
Shares in Alphabet Inc (Nasdaq: GOOG), the company better known as Google, are rising again in premarket trading today. The stock is currently up by more than 4% following...
This genius new game might be the one thing your family agrees on this holiday season
After entrepreneur Brynn Putnam sold her smart fitness company, Mirror, to Lululemon for $500 million in 2020, she was looking for her next big idea. It was the middle...
The crazy story of how Ring founder Jamie Siminoff secured the name ‘Ring.com’
In his new book Ding Dong: How Ring Went from Shark Tank Reject to Everyone’s Front Door, Ring founder Jamie Siminoff pulls back the curtain on the chaotic, often absurd...
Aligning VMware migration with business continuity
For decades, business continuity planning meant preparing for anomalous events like hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, or regional power outages. In anticipation of these rare disasters, IT teams built playbooks, ran...
Beating the AI bubble
You can’t help but feel uneasy when looking at market concentration. Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla now make up more than a third of the S&P...
It’s not your job. Your social media feed is ruining your workday
When work was drying up for freelance writer Megan Carnegie, she found herself compulsively hopping between apps and social media. “LinkedIn, WhatsApp, emails—and it was just terrible for my...
‘Fail watching’: The rise of workplace schadenfreude
Today’s job market is more ruthless than ever, leaving many desperately clinging to their roles amid mass layoffs and side-eyeing the competition.  In such environments, a rival colleague or...
Mentorship is the competitive edge our workplaces need to accelerate
Lately, at every networking event or leadership roundtable, I’m hearing the same things on repeat. CEOs are focused on growth in an uncertain context. HR leaders are worried about...
Amazon Leo is ready for testing and aimed squarely at Starlink’s dominance
The Bezos vs. Musk battle for satellite internet service is heating up In what’s rapidly becoming the new space race: Amazon will start testing its high-speed internet service that...
What ‘Sent from my . . .’ in your emails says about you
The average U.S. employee clocks nearly 21 full business days working from their phone each year. That’s according to new research from Adobe Acrobat, who surveyed over 1,000 full-time...
Trump-Xi call covered trade, Taiwan, Ukraine, soybeans, fentanyl, and more
President Donald Trump said he has accepted an invitation from Chinese leader Xi Jinping to visit Beijing in April and that he reciprocated by inviting Xi for a state...