Deana Burke, co-founder of the media company Boy’s Club, created a fake natural deodorant to see if agentic AI might recommend it to potential customers. It did.
As AI brings challenges to higher education, USC is embracing the tech with a new school dedicated to researching innovations and applying AI across disciplines.
Apple announced it’s raising prices on some iPads and MacBooks this week, citing the rising price of memory and storage devices. But some economists say AI could eventually bring the prices of goods and services down.
“Every six months you need to update your course materials,” said MIT Deputy Dean of academics Asuman Ozdaglar. “You need to introduce new courses because there are new paradigms that emerge within a few months’ time frame.”
The company, known for taking a stricter safety stance as it developed its artificial intelligence tools, said it failed to convince competitors to do the same.
There are plenty of examples of how AI tools are helping companies become more productive. But economists say it’s far too early to tell whether AI is boosting labor productivity across the economy.
The company’s borrowing tens of billions of dollars to build out data centers. Some of those bonds, in the United Kingdom, have a 100-year maturity date.
