The digital boom isn’t a death knell for museums and galleries but a chance to democratize art and deepen engagement. The headlines are hard to ignore: museum attendance is waning, galleries are closing and digital art is often framed as the culprit. The narrative is familiar: online access to collections and digital platforms are supposedly…
Every six seconds in America, someone is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Every five seconds, another person starts a new prescription for it. Every day, 260 people die from it. Here’s what many Americans don’t know: type 2 diabetes is reversible. So is high blood pressure and many other chronic conditions, long treated as permanent….
Since stepping away from the day-to-day operation at Bridgewater, Ray Dalio has devoted much of his time and energy to sharing his thoughts with the world and mentoring the next generation. But as one person, the 76-year-old billionaire has limited time. To address that, Dalio is introducing “Digital Ray,” an A.I. clone built on decades…
Rising interest rates, investor scrutiny and automation maturity are reshaping what “sustainable growth” really means for businesses. The phrase “sustainable growth” has long been a boardroom favorite—a comforting hybrid of ambition and prudence. But in the wake of the A.I. boom, that phrase has been redefined. The market’s fixation on efficiency, data-driven performance and investor…
What does Heineken, the 160-year-old Dutch brewing company, have in common with San Francisco-based tech startup Friend? Both have jumped into a raucous debate over A.I. companionship—using tongue-in-cheek advertisements plastered across New York City to make their point. In August, Friend launched a $1 million subway campaign promoting its wearable A.I. necklace as a reliable “friend.” The…
Large language models have become some of the most accessible writers on the internet. While their facts might be questionable and their sources non-existent, their formatting is often spot-on. They use clear headings, break up dense text with well-structured paragraphs and write in plain language that’s easy to scan and understand. In many ways, they’ve…
Revising pitchbooks, formatting slides and tweaking font sizes—these are some of the tedious tasks that have long fallen to entry-level investment bankers eager to climb the ladder at Wall Street’s top firms. Now, former staffers across major banks are helping OpenAI train its A.I. to master such grunt work in a bid to expand the…
As Amazon recovers from its recent fumble when an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage caused error pages to pop up across its own site and many others that rely on its cloud services, some unexpected stars have emerged from the rubble. Those visiting Amazon’s 404 error pages are greeted not by the usual dull error…
Shiv Rao, featured on this year’s A.I. Power Index, has built what may be one of the most consequential applications of A.I. in medicine today. A practicing cardiologist turned founder, Rao saw firsthand how much of modern medicine’s burden falls on the complexity of the paperwork surrounding care. After long days with patients, hours of…
It’s hard to imagine a world without Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that for a quarter of a century has stood as one of the enduring staples of the Internet. In recent months, however, the site’s foundation has been shaken by the rise of generative A.I., with Wikipedia attributing an 8 percent decline in human visitors…
