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Retail

IKEA’s price cuts come from a cocktail of automation, low raw material costs and ‘saving for the rainy days’

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February 10, 2024
Apple and Google received panicked letters from a Scottish council after their GPS kept sending vehicles down a flight of steps
Tech

Apple and Google received panicked letters from a Scottish council after their GPS kept sending vehicles down a flight of steps

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February 7, 2024
Employees in a copper mine in Chile.
Commentary

Skill shortages are one of industry’s biggest problems. AI is the solution

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January 30, 2024
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Tech

Nobel Prize-winning economist who said ChatGPT would result in a four-day workweek says the past 12 months have only further convinced him he’s right

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December 2, 2023
Alan Murray
Tech

McKinsey’s AI thought leader says 70% of jobs can be automated—but ‘the devil is in the detail’

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November 27, 2023
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Success

AI should make the 4-day work week possible for millions of workers. The question is whether they’ll use the free time for leisure—or more work

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November 24, 2023
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Retail

A grocery chain is removing self-checkout after realizing executives hate it as much as customers do: ‘We like to talk to people’

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November 10, 2023
Figure AI
Tech

Robot startups see huge market in replacing human workers: ‘We can sell millions of humanoids, billions maybe’

By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
November 5, 2023
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Finance

Railroad union says ‘enough is enough’ after remote-controlled train crushes worker to death over the weekend

By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
September 18, 2023
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Tech

Top AI institute chair and ex-Amazon exec thinks AI will disrupt employment as we know it—but it’ll make the world wealthier and more skilled

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September 14, 2023
SoftBank places big bet autonomous trucks will ‘fundamentally change’ supply chains
Tech

SoftBank places big bet autonomous trucks will ‘fundamentally change’ supply chains

By Keith Naughton, David Welch and Bloomberg
September 7, 2023
Wharton professor says ‘things that took me weeks to master in my PhD’ take ‘seconds’ with new ChatGPT tool
Tech

Wharton professor says ‘things that took me weeks to master in my PhD’ take ‘seconds’ with new ChatGPT tool

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July 8, 2023
Microsoft will ride generative A.I. wave to $3 trillion valuation, say Morgan Stanley analysts
Tech

Microsoft will ride generative A.I. wave to $3 trillion valuation, say Morgan Stanley analysts

By Subrat Patnaik and Bloomberg
July 6, 2023
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Tech

The IMF’s No. 2 official says experts were wrong to ignore lost jobs from automation—and warns we ‘don’t have the luxury of time’ to regulate A.I.

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June 6, 2023
Society’s refusal to have enough babies is what will save it from the existential threat of A.I., Eric Schmidt says
Tech

Society’s refusal to have enough babies is what will save it from the existential threat of A.I., Eric Schmidt says

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May 24, 2023

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