The real problem gripping rural America and the jobs of the future
America’s AI future won’t be stopped by China, energy shortages, or a lack of investment. It will be stopped by a lack of workers.While headlines celebrated $90 billion in new…
A case study to consider for AI adoption: GM versus Toyota in the 1980s
On October 20, 1984, The New York Times ran an article headlined, “GM Factory of the Future Will Run with Robots.” In it, Roger Smith, then GM’s CEO, claimed that…
An AI-enabled future is inspiring, but it takes planning and work
Artificial intelligence may end up being more impactful than the Industrial Revolution. The private sector already has invested vast sums into developing and deploying AI. To accelerate AI innovation and…
Risk and reward in the robotics space after a $7 billion leap forward in 2024
Six months ago, we were leaning into the robotics space, proactively sourcing opportunities — but still only seeing a few inbound pitches a month. Today, that number has skyrocketed. In…
Civility can be your edge in this polarized time, when people have forgotten how to coexist
We live in an especially polarized time, one clouded by political violence, family estrangement and relationships started or ended based on political affiliations. Many have forgotten how to coexist with people unlike themselves.Incivility dominates…
Your AI strategy needs mathematical logic
Hallucination is fundamental to how transformer-based language models work. In fact, it’s their greatest asset: this is the method by which language models find links between sometimes disparate concepts. But…
Lyft’s CEO got the top job after initially turning it down—Here’s the six-week process that made him chief executive
Risher had been serving on the board since 2021—but as it turns out, Aggarwal wasn’t trying to convince him to lead the business’ financial reports. Lyft’s two cofounders, John Zimmerman…
600 Paramount Skydance employees quit instead of returning to the office, and it cost the company $185 million, filings show
Hundreds of Paramount Skydance employees decided they’d rather find a new workplace than go back to the office five days a week.Paramount did not immediately respond to Fortune’s request for…
Chinese ‘cryptoqueen’ who allegedly scammed thousands jailed in UK over Bitcoin stash worth $6.6 billion
Police said the investigation into Zhimin Qian, 47, led to officers recovering devices holding 61,000 Bitcoin in the largest cryptocurrency seizure in the U.K.Qian, dubbed “cryptoqueen” by British media, was…
Sinking Nvidia keeps Wall Street’s gains in check
Because Nvidia is so large, worth close to $5 trillion, it was the heaviest weight on the S&P 500 Tuesday and checked gains made elsewhere in the market.Nvidia oftentimes can…
