Visa Dives Deep Into Creator Economy by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, July 20, 2023 Kennedy @whokae focuses her TikTok page on cinematography highlighting black culture, from clothing to makeup. Along with two others — food creator Danny, along with music creator L.Dre — are participating as mentors in Visa’s Get P@id social video series. … Continue reading Visa Dives Deep Into Creator Economy
By Elissaveta M. Brandon On New Year’s Eve 2022, my husband and I brought a controversial gift to a friend’s house party: a white orchid bestowed on us by my mother-in-law, so we don’t show up empty-handed. (Moms.) Orchids are notoriously hard to care for, so I was aghast when a few hours into … Continue reading From tacky to tasteful: how fake plants are growing into a $1 billion industry
How to turn ChatGPT into your own personal assistant Aaron Heienickle / Jul 20, 2023 OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence research organization, has recently announced the launch of a groundbreaking feature for its ChatGPT platform: custom instructions. This innovative capability allows users to provide specific prompts to the chatbot, eliminating the need to repeat … Continue reading How to turn ChatGPT into your own personal assistant
By Mark Sullivan July 19, 2023 Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman wrote Wednesday that Apple has been quietly developing its own generative AI models, and may even try to compete with OpenAI and Google in the chatbot wars. Gurman’s (unnamed) sources say Apple management is still deciding how the company might publicly release the technology, which has … Continue reading Apple has better reasons than Wall Street to jump into the generative AI arms race
By Blaire Briody July 18, 2023 This article is the second in a series about gatekeepers in the professional world taking a chance on those with nontraditional backgrounds. Read the full series here. The series is published in partnership with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. In early 2015, Daisy Magnus-Aryitey was 32 years old … Continue reading ‘Most importantly, I don’t give up’: How a mom who had been out of the workforce for a decade talked her way into a career opportunity
ChatGPT Analysis Sheds New Light Into People’s Behavior, Intent by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 14, 2023 How people craft prompts to get more information from ChatGPT ranges from simple message lengths to long and elaborate descriptions using action words and nouns, according to an analysis of 5,054 conversations analyzed by Semrush. The company collected publicly shared … Continue reading ChatGPT Analysis Sheds New Light Into People’s Behavior, Intent
Andrew Tarantola @terrortola For a product that its own creators, in a marketing pique, once declared “too dangerous” to release to the general public, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is seemingly everywhere these days. The versatile automated text generation (ATG) system, which is capable of outputting copy that is nearly indistinguishable from a human writer’s work, is … Continue reading FTC opens investigation into ChatGPT creator OpenAI
By Yasmin Gagne Clothing resale is thriving—the market for secondhand apparel grew to $119 billion in 2022, a 24% increase from the year before, according to a report from resale platform ThredUp—but it’s still difficult for sellers to turn a profit. And the shopping experience can often feel like rummaging through a garage sale. … Continue reading This entrepreneur turned a secondhand-apparel show into a fashion destination
By Sam Becker June 28, 2023 It’d be easy to forgive most people for changing or even abandoning their financial or investing strategy over the past few years. With the pandemic, inflation, ongoing prospects of a recession, and rising interest rates, there’s been a lot of economic action packed into a relatively short period … Continue reading Gen Z and millennials are already dipping into their retirement funds—even more than Gen X
Devindra Hardawar @devindra The real world just felt too small when I stepped out of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune. There weren’t any enormous spaceships ready to rocket off to planets in distant galaxies. No Brutalist palaces amid endless desert vistas. No building-sized sandworms roaming about, eager to devour anyone who disturbed them. Just me and … Continue reading NASA is recycling 98 percent of astronaut pee and sweat on the ISS into drinkable water
