stp2y

32763 Posts
Use of AI for business governance must improve at the board level

Use of AI for business governance must improve at the board level

According to Carine Smith Ihenacho, chief governance and compliance officer of Norway’s $1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund, boards need to be proficient with the use of AI and take control of its application in businesses to mitigate risks. The Norges Bank Investment Fund, which holds considerable shares in almost 9,000 companies worldwide — accounting for 1.5% of all listed stocks — has become a trailblazer in environmental, social, and corporate governance issues. About a year ago, the fund also provided its invested companies with recommendations on integrating responsible AI to improve economic outcomes. Several companies still have a lot of…
Read More

How to Use AI in Business | TechRepublic

Artificial intelligence is taking the business world by storm, as it is an impressive technology that can serve many uses within the workplace. While the future of AI is not guaranteed, the AI market size worldwide grew beyond $184 billion in 2024 and is expected to grow past $826 billion in 2030, according to Statista. With so many organizations profiting through the integration of AI within their internal operations, business owners don’t want to be left behind in this lucrative movement. Fortunately, AI technology is more accessible than ever before, allowing more businesses to take advantage of its benefits to…
Read More
Americans are doing less DIY. It’s another worrying sign for the economy.

Americans are doing less DIY. It’s another worrying sign for the economy.

Play it again, Sam.A week after Home Depot described American consumers as having a "deferral mindset" about spending, Lowe's is now humming the same tune about how American homeowners — and by extension the larger economy — are in a strange spot this summer.Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison said the home improvement retailer's DIY customers are "on the sidelines waiting for some form of an inflection to take place."Ellison was speaking on the company's quarterly earnings call Tuesday, during which Lowe's lowered its earnings expectations for the remainder of the year, due to the ongoing slowdown in sales for big-ticket discretionary…
Read More
Why AI isn’t just hype – but a pragmatic approach is required

Why AI isn’t just hype – but a pragmatic approach is required

After all the headlines we have read about how amazing Artificial Intelligence (AI) is and how businesses would literally stagnate if they didn’t have it, it was interesting to read this article in Forbes, who suggest that AI stock is showing “bubble”-like tendencies and may soon experience a sharp correction as businesses struggle to operationalize AI. So, should we write off AI? Maybe not. Perhaps the better plan is to accept that AI is at the top of its hype cycle and, like any new technology, there will be some limitations to ChatGPT-style AI, which in its raw state can…
Read More
An Amazon Echo Pop and smart light bulb bundle is just $23

An Amazon Echo Pop and smart light bulb bundle is just $23

One of the main reasons to have a smart speaker is to help you control various smart home devices. Light bulbs are among the most common products used for that purpose, so it only makes sense to bundle one of those with a smart speaker. As part of , a combo of the Echo Pop and a Sengled smart bulb is available for just $23. That's 61 percent or $37 off the regular price, and only $3 more than it was selling for during Prime Day last month.Amazon as an entry-level Alexa-powered speaker. The semi-spherical device can handle some machine…
Read More
Condé Nast Signs Deal With OpenAI

Condé Nast Signs Deal With OpenAI

Condé Nast and OpenAI have struck a multi-year deal that will allow the AI giant to use content from the media giant’s roster of properties—which includes the New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, and, yes, WIRED. The deal will allow OpenAI to surface stories from these outlets in both ChatGPT and the new SearchGPT prototype.“It’s crucial that we meet audiences where they are and embrace new technologies while also ensuring proper attribution and compensation for use of our intellectual property,” Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch wrote in a company-wide email. Lynch pointed to ongoing turmoil within the publishing industry…
Read More
Use IP-restricted presigned URLs to enhance security in Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth | Amazon Web Services

Use IP-restricted presigned URLs to enhance security in Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth | Amazon Web Services

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth significantly reduces the cost and time required for labeling data by integrating human annotators with machine learning to automate the labeling process. You can use SageMaker Ground Truth to create labeling jobs, which are workflows where data objects (such as images, videos, or documents) need to be annotated by human workers. These labeling jobs are distributed among a workteam—a group of workers assigned to perform the annotations. To access the data objects they need to label, workers are provided with Amazon S3 presigned URLs. A presigned URL is a temporary URL that grants time-limited access to an…
Read More

Authors sue Anthropic for copyright infringement over AI training

The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has been hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court by three authors who say it misused their books and hundreds of thousands of others to train its AI-powered chatbot Claude, which generates texts in response to users’ prompts.The complaint, filed on Monday by writers and journalists Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson, said that Anthropic used pirated versions of their works and others to teach Claude to respond to human prompts.“Anthropic styles itself as a public benefit company, designed to improve humanity. For holders of copyrighted works, however, Anthropic already has…
Read More
No widgets found. Go to Widget page and add the widget in Offcanvas Sidebar Widget Area.