E-commerce websites might also try to pivot to the agentic attention economy, but the path forward there is unclear. Last year, a team led by Akshit Kumar, an assistant professor of operations... Read more »

8 Battery makers are finding a new market in the USThey’re pivoting from EVs to grid storage. (WSJ $)+ Batteries just broke another record in the US. (MIT Technology Review) 9 A humanist... Read more »

What’s worse is that the number is likely to be much higher than that once we factor in other eating disorders. And, disturbingly, those in the field are already starting to see... Read more »

1 Hackers exposed 41,000 Homeland Security workersIncluding undercover ICE agents. (Wired $)+ Much of the data relates to Customs and Border Protection. (TechCrunch)+ It also linked the agencies to specific surveillance tools.... Read more »

Imagine a bank hiring a thousand new employees who can access customer accounts and sensitive information, but the employees’ ID badges change every day, it’s not clear whether a manager ever reviewed... Read more »

A study in Environmental Research Letters in September, synthesizing the results of previous papers, found that the additional carbon dioxide and methane released from thawing permafrost, intensifying wildfires, hotter lakes and reservoirs,... Read more »

Companies are mostly still piloting AI use cases (according to 38% of respondents) or using it to assist employees’ work with tools like co-pilots or chat assistants (35%). Just 12% of enterprises... Read more »

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MIT Technology Review Narrated: what it would take to build a city on the moon The US and China are racing to build bases on the moon, with NASA hoping to establish... Read more »