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How Leading Strategy Teams are Successfully Driving Generative AI Adoption
[Business]
2025/02/04 09:05
We surveyed 50 senior strategy leaders to understand their genAI implementation tactics — and why some teams are seeing better results than others.Generative AI is the leading tech priority for corporate strategy teams in the next year.But only 32% of strategy leaders report active genAI deployments at their organizations.To identify pain points and success stories for genAI adoption, we surve...
Bullet-like Futuristic Bus That Turns Into 'Showroom On Wheels' Unveiled
[Design]
2025/02/04 09:04
The custom bus features aircraft-inspired curves and sci-fi interiors, created by DC2 Mercury.At the 2025 Bharat Mobility Auto Expo, one of the standout attractions wasn’t a cutting-edge car or electric vehicle. Instead, it was a custom-designed bus, created as a mobile showroom for Goldmedal Electricals, a prominent homegrown Indian company. This unique vehicle combines a futuristic, spacecra...
ChatGPT’s Mobile Users are 85% Male, Report Says
[Consumer]
2025/02/04 09:03
The AI bubble hasn’t burst yet, at least when it comes to consumer spending on AI apps.Led by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, overall spending on AI apps jumped to $1.42 billion in 2024, according to app analytics firm Appfigures. This marks a 274% increase from 2023 (the app launched in May of that year). Among tens of thousands of competitor apps — some of which license OpenAI’s own technology — ChatG...
(PDF) Earning Report - World’s Largest Luxury Group, LVMH 2024 Annual Results
[Investing]
2025/02/03 09:10
The world’s largest luxury company LVMH on Tuesday reported better-than-expected full-year sales, in the strongest sign yet of a potential turnaround in the high-end sector.LVMH is seen as a bellwether for the wider luxury industry, with product lines spanning fashion and leather goods, wines and spirits, jewelry and cosmetics.Shares in the French luxury goods giant are currently up around 18%...
(Video) Tesla Achieves Factory-to-Dock Self-Driving
[Tech]
2025/02/03 09:09
Tesla Says Its EVs Now Drive Themselves From The Factory To The Loading Areas. The company posted a video showing how a brand-new car drove a 1.2-mile route without anyone in the driver’s seat.Tesla claims its new EVs can now drive themselves on a 1.2-mile factory course.The freshly assembled EVs start their driverless journey from a charging station.Tesla isn’t a stranger to controversy. Tha...
Deepseek vs OpenAI : Who Will Shape The Future of AI ?
[Business]
2025/02/03 09:08
China’s DeepSeek made a global launch, entering Silicon Valley and Japan with a bang. This GenAI software has trained a foundational model that matches the performance of American giants like ChatGPT and Meta’s Llama — but at a fraction of the cost, using far fewer chips.The US and China are shaping the future of AI, but where does India stand in this high-stakes race? If Indian models don’...
(Paper) Butterfly-Inspired Robotic Wings Fly with No Batteries, Just Magnetic Fields
[Tech]
2025/02/03 09:06
The wings are a mixture of innovative design and magnetic particles that can move without needing batteries or electronics.Inspired by butterfly wings, a team of German researchers have developed a new kind of robotic wings that can work using only magnetic fields. The new wings created by the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf researchers need no batt...
Weather Firm Raises $22M for Its Modeling Advances
[Investing]
2025/02/03 09:06
Swiss Weather intelligence firm Meteomatics raised $22 million in a Series C round, the company announced Wednesday.The funding comes soon after the company announced that its ultra-high resolution computer model will soon be available across the U.S.Why it matters: The new funding indicates continued interest in startups that can help companies and society at large better anticipate and withst...
Global Smartphone Revenues Resume Growth in 2024 After Two Year
[Business]
2025/02/03 09:05
Global smartphone revenue and ASP grew 5% YoY and 1% YoY, respectively, in 2024, driven by the premiumization trend. ASP reached $356, the highest ever for a calendar year.Global smartphone shipments grew 4% YoY in 2024 driven by the improved macroeconomic environment and consumer sentiment.Despite a 3% YoY decline in shipments, iPhone revenues remained less impacted, driven by the strengthenin...
