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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/technology/google-diversity-goals-dei-trump.html Look, you’re the tech genius. Get it done! You created the thing. You set its parameters: set new ones. Turn it off and turn it on again or something. Flick a switch. I don’t know, I’m busy trying to align the company with the new reality. I know you… Read the rest

https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2025/02/05/over-50-adland-sorry-experience-won-t-shield-you-the-chop We’re quite a team. Get us round a table – ideally a pub table – and set us off. Stories, many stories. Stories about great shoots, legendary Cannes moments, good bosses, bad bosses and many, many Big Ideas. The younglings used to raise their manicured eyebrows when they walked… Read the rest

https://www.engadget.com/ai/chatgpts-deep-research-tool-can-create-reports-from-hundreds-of-online-sources-022223298.html He loved the library. He didn’t need to work there of course. He had a home office quiet and connected enough to be a haven for his research. He even had an office at work – no-one wanted them any more. But he went to the library. He sometimes… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/02/dub-the-copy-trading-app-that-has-teens-talking/ They weren’t the only parents thinking about banning their child’s device… or at least limiting it… or perhaps having a conversation. It was difficult. But they were worried. He just came home and disappeared to his room. They could hear him talking to his mates, laughing, shouting, swearing. It… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/01/how-to-delete-x-and-move-on-with-your-life/ I originally signed up for just the trial. There was something I wanted to see or some debate I wanted to be a part of, so I signed up. It was free so of course there were ads and the Agents were annoyingly corporate but heh. But now, I’m… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/backed-by-mayo-clinic-nutrixs-hardware-monitors-worker-stress/ I’m not a monk. I don’t study Zen. I know I have a head. I’m just calm I guess. I did some mindfulness meditation stuff when work first introduced the systems but my wearables didn’t show any great changes. I just don’t get stressed. It’s not conscious. I’m not… Read the rest

https://lbbonline.com/news/havas-report-reveals-a-global-trust-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it Ironically they’d considered giving the job to an AI. There were the usual justifications: cost, capacity and limitless knowledge about the issues. Thankfully somebody had spotted the potential optics and the board had decided to add another human to the C-suite. That made the balance 5 to 3 now.… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/29/elon-musk-claims-tesla-will-launch-a-self-driving-service-in-austin-in-june/ It was what his parents said used to be called a Prom. They’d go off into a reverie, telling boring stories about who they’d danced with, that kiss , the rivalries for the best date. It was alright for them. Everyone had hired a limo. That was status. But… Read the rest

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2025/01/28/exactlyai-and-the-personal-ai-model-the-future-creators My mum had a Tamagotchi. She still has it on one of the retro tech shelves. Apparently she got a detention at school for feeding it during a lesson. She used to joke that I was her Tamagotchi when I was little. Always wanting something. But at least she… Read the rest

https://newatlas.com/ai-humanoids/deepseek-a I don’t look like Brad Pitt. But I like to think of myself as like his character in Moneyball. Scout. Talent spotter. He found undiscovered or undervalued talent and transformed the Oakland Athletics. I do the same for my business. He used data. I use data. My world is… Read the rest