Best Buy has made significant cuts to its workforce, including the Geek Squad. On the heels of the cuts, the Minnesota-based company announced that artificial intelligence will help customers Addressing “lower business demand,” Best Buy has made a significant cut to its workforce and laid off a number of employees, including Geek Squad field agents, …
Ever since the rollout of ChatGPT in November 2022, many people in science, business, and media have been obsessed with AI. A cursory look at my own published work during that period fingers me as among the guilty. My defense is that I share with those other obsessives a belief that large language models are …
“Nvidia has history on its side.” You couldn’t take 10 steps at CES, the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, without hearing about AI. All the key players in the AI PC race were present last week in force, including Intel INTC, -0.13%, AMD AMD, +8.31%, Qualcomm QCOM, +0.66% and Microsoft MSFT, +0.46%. Intel …
High speed internet access is no longer a luxury — in the 21st century it is an absolute necessity for modern life. Today, more than ever, tens of millions of Americans rely on broadband to work from home, apply for veterans’ benefits, attend school, run their small businesses, and access health care. Yet, hundreds of …
Technology like AI already threatens to make us lonelier by chipping away at some of the small interactions with others that might seem trivial, but that have a powerful effect on our wellbeing, according to Business Insider’s prior reporting. Now, it’s easy to see how AI might make us feel more alone at work, too: …
Whatever you say, boss… Just doing my job, boss… You got it…boss… Hey, sometimes all you can do at work is maliciously comply with the person in charge…even when you know what you’re about to do won’t be good… Take a look at how this worker handled their boss. We think you’ll be impressed! “When …
When are people gonna learn…? It never pays to be a total jerk to your co-workers or the people who you supervise! Because one day it’ll probably come back to bite you. And that’s exactly what happened in this story from Reddit’s “Malicious Compliance” page. They started by saying they were working as an IT …
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Before our first child was born last year, my wife and I often deliberated about the kind of parents we wanted to be—and the kind we didn’t. We watched families at restaurants sitting in silence, glued to their …
Amazon Eyeing the upcoming holiday rush, Amazon announced on Tuesday that it’s seeking to hire 250,000 warehouse and delivery workers to work alongside its existing team. A bump in the hourly pay rate is also being offered in the hope of encouraging more people to sign up. The e-commerce giant usually runs hiring campaigns around …