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We tend to assume AI is replacing jobs because coding is complex work it has mastered, but the World Economic Forum found the opposite...

The first mistake in thinking about AI and jobs is to imagine that machines climb the labour market in order of difficulty. Simple work first. Complex work later. Manual work before professional work. Routine jobs before skilled ones. That is...

Psychology says people who reach midlife with few close friends aren’t always cold or difficult — many spent years being the person everyone leaned...

There is a quick, ungenerous way to read a person who reaches midlife with few close friends. People assume they are aloof. Or difficult. Or too proud to need anyone. Sometimes that is true. But often the story is...

A two-year-old robotics startup with about thirty million dollars in revenue was just valued at more than fourteen billion, which is the clearest sign...

Here is the rewritten reliability is a hardware problem, when in fact the unsolved part is autonomy in a world the engineers do not control. The Skild AI round makes the point unusually cleanly. A two-year-old company with around...

Intiveo Launches Veo, Bringing Responsible AI to Dental Patient Engagement

Vancouver-based Intiveo is introducing a new AI layer for dental practices, with a focus on helping providers improve patient communication without giving up control of the patient relationship. The company announced Veo this week, describing it as a growing network...

People born between 1945 and 1965 were raised in homes where children were expected to read the emotional weather of the room before speaking,...

A dining room in 1958. The casserole is on the table, the radio is low, and a father walks in from work with a particular set to his jaw. Before anyone speaks, an eight-year-old has already registered the angle...

A 65-year-old programming language called COBOL still quietly runs over $3 trillion in banking transactions every single day — and because the original engineers...

Roughly $3 trillion in daily commerce is estimated to pass through COBOL systems in the global financial industry. That figure, reported by Reuters in 2017 and echoed in later coverage, is not an audited live counter. It is an...

Why the most important job founders and CEOs have is storyteller-in-chief

In other words, it’s not usually a place for people like me, or probably you.  During our time as cofounders of Four Pillars Gin, Stu Gregor, Cameron McKenzie and I spent plenty of time traveling around the world to attend...

I teach founders to act before they’re ready – then delayed my own startup for two years

It said “in years to come we’ll either be saying ‘remember when Tamsin did that silly little JumpProof thing’, or ‘remember when it all fit in that one small room’.” Nobody knows which way it goes. I’ve spent a...

Apple just jacked up Macbook prices by 20% – so here’s where you can still find a bargain

The SKUs hardest hit by the almost-20% rise across Apple’s Mac and iPad ranges, with the tech giant saying it can no longer absorb soaring memory and storage chip costs driven by the AI boom. Apple raised the prices on the...

CDC boss warns of ‘AI fly-by-night, cowboy-types’ in data centre gold rush

Industry experts raised concerns at the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) State of the Nation conference in Canberra on Thursday night, where AI regulation and innovation became a major focus of discussion.  Electricity companies at the event were...
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