30 2025 April
Should You Be Polite to Chatbots? Research Says Yes. Sam Altman Says It Costs Millions in “Wasted” Computing Power
How polite are you when you ask ChatGPT a query? According to Sam Altman, the human propensity to be nice when asking technology for solutions...
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18 2025 April
3 Powerful Talks from TED This Week That Are Already Available Live to Watch
The TED conference took place this past week and some of the talks have already been released. While most of the year the TED social...
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17 2025 April
Google Uses AI to Reimagine The Wizard of Oz (and Maybe the Future of Hollywood)
This past week, a closed group of attendees at a private Google event got a first look at an ambitious project that has been in...
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27 2025 March
Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant Is Exactly What Anyone in Business Really Needs
This past month Adobe launched a super useful enhancement that I’ve been testing it for a bit. The Adobe AI Assistant has a number of...
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26 2025 March
The Quest to Prevent Scalpers and the Rise of the Freebie Bots
There is a word for people who buy a child’s game when it first comes out and then immediately try to sell it online for...
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20 2025 March
Unnecessary Enhancement and the Upscaling Backlash Against Netflix
What if everything doesn’t need to be better? A series of 80s shows originally released at a 4:3 aspect ratio and with non-HD level filming have been...
Read Now17 2025 March
The Talking Tree and How AI Can Give a Voice to the Voiceless
How can you get young people to reconnect with nature? Let them talk to a tree. That’s the creative premise behind a new campaign that features...
Read Now21 2025 February
Open AI Launched a New Brand Look and Expensive Super Bowl Ad … Made by Humans
Open AI has launched a cohesive new brand identity and look which was also featured in their first Super Bowl Ad last week. The campaign...
Read Now07 2025 February
What The AI-Enhanced Beatles Grammy Award Win Tells Us About the Future of Memories
In case you missed it, at this past weekend’s Grammy Awards, the Beatles took home the win for Best Rock Performance for the AI-assisted track...
Read Now05 2025 February
The Age of the AI Chatbot Salesperson Might Have an Unintended Side Effect
Training an employee to do upselling (and be good at it) is notoriously difficult. When it’s done right, it can drive significant revenue for many...
Read Now31 2025 January
The Stories Within the Story About Why DeepSeek AI Is Such a Big Deal
The big AI news of the week was Chinese startup DeepSeek releasing their AI model which seemingly offers similar functionality to ChatGPT. The news has apparently shocked...
Read Now22 2025 January
Why The “World’s First” AI-Powered Hotel May Be More Than Fancy Marketing
From the outside the Otonomus Hotel (pun probably intended) doesn’t really look much different from any other spot. The property just had their soft-launch before...
Read Now21 2025 January
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Brave New Words by Sal Khan
Back in April of 2023, Sal Khan (founder of Khan Academy) did a TED talk with a timely title: How AI Could Save (Not Destroy)...
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