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FeaturedA Robot Is Running a Café in Stockholm — And It's Working
What Happens When AI Takes the Manager's Chair? Imagine walking into your favorite local coffee shop. The barista behind the counter is friendly, the espresso is good, and everything seems normal — except the person actually running the business isn't a person at all. That's exa...

The Little Cheese Shop That Beat a Big Shipping Company With AI
When David Had an AI Slingshot There's a story coming out of Austin, Texas right now that every small business owner needs to hear. A vegan cheese company called Rebel Cheese was locked in a dispute with a major shipping carrier — the kind of fight that small businesses usually ...
FeaturedAI at Work: What Real People Are Actually Doing With It
The Quiet Revolution Happening in Ordinary Workplaces You've probably heard plenty of big, sweeping claims about artificial intelligence — that it's going to take everyone's jobs, or that it's going to make everyone rich overnight. The truth, as usual, sits somewhere more intere...
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From Data Analyst to Data Engineer: My 12-Month Self-Study Roadmap
The exact tools I'm learning, the projects I'm building, and the mistakes I'm already expecting to make The post From Data Analyst to Data Engineer: My 12-Month Self-Study Roadmap appeared first on Towards Data Science.

AI Rings on Fingers Can Interpret Sign Language
Electronic rings wirelessly connected to an AI system are capable of translating multiple sign languages into text, a new study finds.“I believe this is an important step toward making sign language translation systems more practical, lightweight, and usable in real-world environments,” says Ki Jun

Apple’s legendary HyperCard inspired this cool free app
Decades ago, when a classmate and I were supposed to be learning Photoshop in our high school computer lab, we stumbled upon something much cooler—and weirder. The program was called HyperCard, from Apple, and it let you create interactive presentations with multiple choice buttons and branching

How I Continually Improve My Claude Code
Learn how to make your Claude Code improve over time The post How I Continually Improve My Claude Code appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Bill Gross thinks AI companies are running out of ways to avoid paying creators
Bill Gross has a long history of betting on technological shifts and watching those bets pay off. But the latest proposition from one of Silicon Valley’s most storied founders and investors depends on forces far beyond the Bay Area. With ProRata, Gross is betting he can build a market in which pu

Meet Espa, a fresh take on AI assistants
Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. When the software engineer and entrepreneur Deon Nicholas was CEO of Forethought, a customer service automation platform, he had an executive assistant to manage the minutiae of his workday. Not surprisingly, he appreciated the help. “That
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Bitwarden scrubs ‘Always free’ and ‘Inclusion’ values from its website as longtime execs step down
Bitwarden, the maker of a popular free password manager and other security solutions, is quietly making changes. In February, longtime CEO Michael Crandell moved to an advisory role, according to LinkedIn, with no announcement from the company. His replacement, Michael Sullivan, former CEO of bot

This founder was nearly homeless after 3 failed startup ideas. Then he built a $150 million business
Jared Kugel, founder and CEO of the e-commerce site Tire Agent, began his entrepreneurial journey with a bad idea. Kugel had been working for his family’s tire distribution business for more than a decade when, in 2017, he pitched a venture capitalist on creating a search engine for tire and whee

Small businesses should be a much bigger part of the ‘AI transformation’ conversation
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week via email here. A look at the AI landscape for small businesses So much of the conversation around the great AI transforma

Tech weary parents call for ‘Screens Down, Pencils Up’ but U.S. schools are pushing back
For high school senior Aliyah Pack, getting distracted during school is the norm. Kids in her Pennsylvania school district use iPads starting in kindergarten, switch to Chromebooks in second grade and get their own MacBooks in eighth grade.Aliyah has ADHD, and finds it difficult to concentrate when

If an obscure 1980s paradox is any guide, AI may be about to hit a huge tipping point
There’s an old joke among economists that goes like this: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” I didn’t say it was a funny joke. But when labor economist Robert Solow originally wrote those words in 1987, they were certainly true. Personal computers, co

AI scraping has become its own media business
There are several dimensions to the ongoing legal war between the media industry and AI companies over copyright, and one of the major ones is the question of outputs. Which is to say: Scraping content without permission may be detestable, but if the party doing the scraping isn’t doing anything wit
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