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(PDF) Mckinsey - The State of AI : How Organizations are Rewiring to Capture Value
[Consumer]
2025/03/14 09:10
Organizations are beginning to create the structures and processes that lead to meaningful value from gen AI. While still in early days, companies are redesigning workflows, elevating governance, and mitigating more risks.Organizations are starting to make organizational changes designed to generate future value from gen AI, and large companies are leading the way. The latest McKinsey Global Su...
(Paper) Gemini Robotics Uses Google’s Top Language Model to Make Robots More Useful
[Tech]
2025/03/14 09:09
The new model from Google DeepMind is a huge step toward robots that can generalize.Google DeepMind has released a new model, Gemini Robotics, that combines its best large language model with robotics. Plugging in the LLM seems to give robots the ability to be more dexterous, work from natural-language commands, and generalize across tasks. All three are things that robots have struggled to do...
The Global Matcha Boom Is Driving a Shortage in Japan
[Business]
2025/03/14 09:07
Social media feeds are flooded with lattes and sweets flavored with the green tea powder, disrupting a fragile supply chain.Since 2022 content creators Jasmine and Freya Smith in Tokyo have been posting on TikTok about Japanese food and travel, including all things matcha. Dozens of the sisters’ videos feature them at cafes and restaurants stirring matcha lattes, drizzling matcha-flavored syru...
Revolutionising Real Estate : AI Agent Generates $100M in Sales for Portugal
[Business]
2025/03/14 09:07
Will AI agents like Porta da Frente Christie's lead the future of real estate sales?Portuguese brokerage firm Porta da Frente Christie's has reported $100 million in sales, thanks to its implementation of eSelf AI's technology.This marks a major milestone as the company utilizes the first-ever AI-powered real estate agent to generate leads and drive sales.eSelf AI, has revolutionised the way re...
Bain - Tariffs Are Shaking Up Investment Priorities
[Investing]
2025/03/14 09:06
As input costs rise, companies are revising forecasts and shifting capital to supply chains and tech.[bain]
Meta and Ray-Ban Collaborate With Coperni on New Smartglasses
[Product]
2025/03/14 09:05
At its Paris Fashion Week show, Coperni unveiled its version of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which have been a surprising success for wearable technology.Meta and Ray-Ban have partnered with Coperni, the French label known for its tech-centric runway presentations, to persuade the fashion crowd that smartglasses are the next hot accessory.Coperni will debut its take on the Ray-Ban Meta glasses on...
(Infographic) The Most Expensive Super Bowl Commercials of All Time
[Business]
2025/03/14 09:04
The Super Bowl is full of beloved traditions like tailgating, game-day snacks, exciting half-time shows, and the best (and most expensive) ads you’ll see all year. Super Bowl commercials are the most costly time slot in television, and audiences expect brands to put all their creativity into creating iconic ads that stick in the audience’s minds long after the game ends.The team at Qualtrics...
White Motorcycle Concepts and Pininfarina Partner Up To Redefine Motorcycle Aerodynamics
[Design]
2025/03/14 09:03
British motorcycle company White Motorcycle Concepts (WMC) and prestigious design house Pininfarina have announced an exciting new collaboration to shape the future of aerodynamic innovation in two-wheeled mobility.Through this partnership, the two companies aim to demonstrate how WMC's patented aerodynamic technology can be implemented into future road motorcycles to improve their efficiency.F...
(Patent) Google Patent Highlights AI and Quantum’s Symbiotic Relationship
[Tech]
2025/03/13 09:10
Google’s patents take on error correction as its quantum ambitions grow. Quantum computers have a tendency to make mistakes. Google believes AI might be able to help. The tech giant is seeking to patent a system for “quantum error correction using neural networks.” Its approach tracks a quantum computation over several time steps, deploying a neural network to detect mistakes along the way i...
