Amazon Wants Ai to Do Your Shopping for You

What’s on Your Best-of List for 2024? We Want to Know.

Best cocktail or mocktail? Best advice? Best app you discovered? We want to know your highly subjective, hyper-specific, genre-agnostic favorites from the past year.

The New York Times - Dec. 11

The future of AI regulation is up in the air: What’s your next move?

On the AI Impact Tour: Why an uncertain regulatory future for AI means that risk management will become the most critical strategy yet.

VentureBeat - Dec. 11

Rockets GM Rafael Stone says they want to develop, not trade for a star: 'We do not intend to change anything'

Houston has been the subject of high-profile trade rumors, including for Kevin Durant or Jimmy Butler

CBS Sports - Dec. 10

How Do You Get Into Sephora? 3 Tips for Startups, According to Artemis Patrick

The global beauty retailer’s North America CEO shares what Sephora looks for in upstart brands—and how founders can prime themselves for success.

Inc. - Dec. 10

You Can Now Check Out Your PlayStation 2024 Wrap-Up

PlayStation has revealed the PlayStation 2024 Wrap-Up , a tool that provides a summary of your year on PS4 and PS5. This year, the Wrap-Up features a retro aesthetic to celebrate PlayStation's ...

GameSpot - Dec. 10

Google Gemini Can Summarize Your Emails in Gmail. Should You Use It?

AI can tackle your email mountain so you don't have to. Here's how to decide whether Gmail's new productivity feature makes sense for your workflow.

Wired - Dec. 9

Sal Khan wants an AI tutor for every student

Anderson Cooper headed back to school with Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, and creator of the AI tutor Khanmigo. The tool is helping students and teachers alike, and evaluating Cooper's ...

CBS News - Dec. 8

Want to set yourself up for career success in 2025? What you should 'always, always, always' do, from an ex-Nvidia recruiter

Ex-Nvidia recruiter Stefanie Fackrell suggests those looking to find more career success in 2025 work on cultivating their networks and upskilling.

CNBC - Dec. 8

Fixing mistakes on your credit report could boost your credit score—here’s how to do it for free

Monitor your credit reports to fix mistakes before they limit your ability to qualify for favorable interest rates on loans or new credit cards. Here's how.

CNBC - Dec. 8

Sorry, archbishop, you need to do a bit more work on your ritual contrition skills | Catherine Bennett

In a year of wretched public apologies, Justin Welby beats even Gregg Wallace . Is a crap apology worse than no apology at all? Gregg Wallace, until Friday a strong contender for the worst public ...

The Guardian - Dec. 8

Here’s the one thing you should never outsource to an AI model

While it might be tempting, betting on gen AI to take over your R&D will likely backfire in significant, maybe even catastrophic, ways.

VentureBeat - Dec. 7

Do weighted blankets help you sleep better? Here's what to know

Weighted blankets are a popular choice to warm up in cold weather, but research on their effectiveness is limited

ABC News - Dec. 7

After years on the rise, ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ listenership is slipping

Mariah Carey’s unavoidable pop gem “All I Want for Christmas Is You” doesn’t have the hold on the fall months it once had, according to new data from Last.fm.

NBC News - Dec. 7

‘Mummy would prefer you not to do that’: how ‘no’ became a dirty word in parenting

The gentle, child-led approach to raising children has become popular with millennials – and one two-letter word has fallen sharply out of fashion. Is this progress, or a recipe for future ...

The Guardian - Dec. 7

The Rich Can Afford Personal Care. The Rest Will Have to Make Do With AI

From personal trainers to in-person therapy, only the wealthy have access to human connection. What are the options for the less advantaged?

Wired - Dec. 7

Microsoft Copilot Vision is here, letting AI see what you do online

In the long run, the company may even expand these capabilities to other products in its ecosystem, allowing enterprise users to work and make decisions more easily.

VentureBeat - Dec. 6

So You’ve Had a Hysterectomy. Do You Know What Was Removed?

Patients often are in the dark about which organs remain and which were removed — particularly the ovaries, which profoundly influence lifelong health.

The New York Times - Dec. 6

How ChatGPT’s Canvas Can Help You Use AI More Productively

Canvas, which is available to OpenAI’s paid subscribers, is a little bit like an AI-powered Google Docs. Here’s how to use it.

Wired - Dec. 6

What you can do to prevent cervical cancer

After years of decline, cervical cancer rates are rising in some demographics in the United States — primarily low-income women and those in their 30s and 40s. If the disease spreads in the ...

The Hill - Dec. 6

Want More People to Reply to Your Texts? Stanford Research Says Stop Making This Common Texting Mistake

Do you pepper your messages with abbreviations like ‘imo’ and ‘ttyl’? If so, new research warns you’re making a big texting mistake.

Inc. - Dec. 6

Yes, You Can Say ‘Merry Christmas’ at Work. Just Don’t Do This

Feel free to celebrate the holidays, but don’t turn all of December into Santa’s workshop.

Inc. - Dec. 5

Android Is Now Using AI to Upgrade Your Phone’s Closed Captions

Google is rolling out new features for Android and Pixel devices, including a new memory capability for Gemini and the ability to generate expressive captions for nonspoken audio elements in videos.

Wired - Dec. 5

What It Means That Amazon Just Unveiled a New AI Supercomputer, and New Gen-AI Models

The e-commerce and cloud computing giant is pushing to join the top tier of AI players and is spending big money to get there.

Inc. - Dec. 4

Encore’s AI-Powered Site Helps You Shop for Vintage and Secondhand Items

Using a blend of GPT-4 and its own computer model, Encore’s natural language search tool can recognize numerous brands, styles, and aesthetics across the web’s many vintage resale sites.

Wired - Dec. 4

Growl is an AI interactive boxing coach to punch up your family workouts

Growl has raised $4.75 million to create an AI-powered interactive boxing coach to punch up your family workouts.

VentureBeat - Dec. 4

How do you save a dying mobile game? Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has the answer

The mortality rate for such games is high when developers stop updating them. But when Nintendo killed off Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, it found a novel way to extend its life – and now it’s even ...

The Guardian - Dec. 4

Tim Cook Wants Apple to Literally Save Your Life

Much as the CEO seems awestruck by AI and his just-released Apple Intelligence, he’s more convinced that the tech giant’s health apps will define the company’s legacy.

Wired - Dec. 4

Dodgers' Snell: 'This is where you want to play'

The Dodgers introduced pitcher Blake Snell, their latest high-priced free agent signing, at a news conference Tuesday.

ESPN - Dec. 4

Blame AI for your gruelling job interview

Efforts to push back against unsuitable mass applications are turning a dispiriting situation into a miserable one

Financial Times - Dec. 4

Jensen Huang Wants to Make AI the New World Infrastructure

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a plan to bring AI infrastructure to countries around the world, and he’s pitching it in person.

Wired - Dec. 4

Jamie Lee Curtis' Husband Christopher Guest Called Her to Ask, 'Do You Like Diamonds?' Before Proposing

Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest are preparing to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary on Dec. 18

Yahoo Sports - Dec. 3

Apple says it uses Amazon's custom AI chips

Apple is currently using Amazon Web Services' custom AI chips for services like searching and will evaluate if its latest AI chip can be used to pre-train its AI models like Apple Intelligence.

CNBC - Dec. 3

Do you have a lost 401(k)? A new federal database will help you track it down.

How to know if you have a “lost” or forgotten retirement account — and how to get it back if you do.

MarketWatch - Dec. 3

What to Do When Your Employee Is Grieving

It’s National Grief Awareness Week. Here’s how business leaders can better lead their teams through times of loss.

Inc. - Dec. 3

Amazon launches Nova AI model family for generating text, images and videos

Nova Reel outperformed Runway's Gen-3 Alpha in A/B testing, achieving winning rates of 61.4% for video quality.

VentureBeat - Dec. 3

Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic

At its Re:Invent conference, Amazon also announced new tools to help customers build generative AI programs, including one that checks whether a chatbot’s outputs are accurate or not.

Wired - Dec. 3