AI, and other general technology advances like smartphones and even the internet, are not making people smarter.
Category: 18 March 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: THE U.S. CONSUMER IS TAPPED OUT AND WORN OUT
Rich and poor alike, U.S. consumers are spending less on both wants and needs, the Financial Times reported.
BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
Early bitcoin and crypto investor Jason Calacanis recently said he believes Bitcoin will be replaced as a top market, and perhaps even relevant crypto, by newer crypto technologies.
REX SHARES LAUNCHES FIRST BITCOIN-BACKED CORPORATE BOND ETF
REX Shares, a leading exchange-traded product provider, this past week launched the REX Bitcoin Corporate Treasury Convertible Bond ETF (Ticker: BMAX).
AI MAKES YOU AND YOUR COMPANY “SUPERHUMAN,” ENTREPRENEUR SAYS
“Humans who don’t embrace AI in a company will be replaced by humans who do,” Anthony Tan, founder of Grab, Southeast Asia’s preeminent ride-hailing company, said in an 11 March CNBC interview. “The same will apply to companies.”
FIRST JOB INTERVIEW QUESTION: HOW SKILLED ARE YOU IN AI?
One in four tech jobs being posted specifies AI-related skills, with the proportion rising to 36 percent in the information-tech patch of that sector, The Wall Street Journal reported.
MCDONALD’S SUPERSIZES ITS AI INVESTMENT
AI is the main course in the technological makeover the burger chain is making to its 43,000 restaurants.
MISTRAL EMBRACES OPEN-SOURCE IN NEW AI MODELS
Mistral, the French AI developer, says it will unveil new platforms “pretty soon” that will outperform DeepSeek’s R1 model.
HELLO, AI. GOODBYE PROGRAMMERS.
One thing AI does especially well is to write computer code quickly and efficiently—more so than the hundreds of thousands of humans who make, and used to make, a living doing the same thing.
META PUSHES DEVELOPMENT OF VOICE-POWERED AI
Due to be released in a few weeks, Meta’s new LLaMA 4 AI will feature improved voice operation, as the AI industry moves its platforms from text to voice controls.