Teens and Generative AI Access | Saudi Arabia's Electric Vehicle Aspirations | The Upside of Peaking After 40 | Listening's Impact on Facilitating Change

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Google let teens access generative AI in search. They were probably already using it anyway - Fortune

Google had prohibited a key audience—teens—from its generative AI search product that it introduced in May. Now, it has opened the floodgates to those younger users.

On Thursday, the company extended the feature to users aged 13 to 17 in the U.S., as long as they have a Google account and opt in. The technology, called Search Generative Experience (SGE), offers AI-generated answers to search prompts and lets users browse web pages, with AI pointing to the most relevant information.

Teens had been using Google’s AI products and similar ones for some time, notoriously creating an epidemic of AI ghost writing school essays. Online age restrictions are largely futile since most sites, including Google, have users self-report their ages.

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Saudi Arabia wants to become a force in electric-vehicle manufacturing - The Economist

When saudi arabia’s autocratic crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman (known as mbs), last year launched Ceer, the kingdom’s first electric-vehicle (ev) brand, his ambition was clear. His country was not just building a new automotive company, he gushed, it was “igniting a new industry”. Saudi Arabia is powering up its efforts to become a force in manufacturing EVs. If this project is a success, it could mark a significant step towards diversifying its economy away from oil. But big potholes remain.

Saudi officials have long talked of becoming a manufacturing hub for both petrol-powered and electric cars as part of the kingdom’s wider industrial strategy and its plans to tackle climate change. It says it wants to make 500,000 evs a year by 2030, roughly equivalent to annual demand for cars in Saudi Arabia today.

Now the Saudis are pushing money towards these ambitions. Of $32bn targeted by the ministry of industry and mineral resources for nine projects in mining, $6bn will be invested in a steel-plate mill and a plant for battery metals for EVs. They have made it faster and easier for companies to get licences and permits, which are often a hassle elsewhere in the world.

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I Was Feeling Mixed Emotions About a Recent Birthday Until I Read Up on All the Ways We Peak After 40 - Inc.com

I just turned 43 a few weeks ago and it was, well, meh. Don't get me wrong, I have plenty to be grateful for -- good health, a wonderful family, an interesting career -- and my loved ones were sweet about marking the day. I don't feel desolate or overly creaky. But on the other hand, I didn't exactly feel like breaking out the cake and noisemakers, either.

Many of my fellow entrepreneurs may sympathize with my sense that, when you're solidly into middle age, another year older can feel more ominous than celebratory. But should it?

Our youth-obsessed culture focuses on the joys and abilities of the first half of life (including sometimes here on Inc.com, despite the average age of successful entrepreneurs being 42).The result is that it can be tempting to feel that the second half of life is one long slide from an earlier high point. But that, according to a fascinating recent Guardian article by Emma Beddington, isn't even close to scientifically accurate.

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The Power of Listening in Helping People Change - Harvard Business Review

Feedback is one of the most common ways we help others learn and develop. But it can backfire when people become defensive. Researchers explored whether a more subtle intervention — asking questions and listening — could be more effective. Whereas feedback is about telling employees that they need to change, listening to employees and asking them questions might make them want to change. The research findings suggest that attentive and non-judgmental listening seems to make an employee more relaxed, more self-aware of his or her strengths and weaknesses, and more willing to reflect in a non-defensive manner. This can make employees more likely to cooperate (versus compete) with other colleagues, as they become more interested in sharing their attitudes, but not necessarily in trying to persuade others to adopt them, and more open to considering other points of view. The researchers explain the main barriers to high-quality listening and offer tips to help anyone become a better listener.

Giving performance feedback is one of the most common ways managers help their subordinates learn and improve. Yet, research revealed that feedback could actually hurt performance: More than 20 years ago, one of us (Kluger) analyzed 607 experiments on feedback effectiveness and found that feedback caused performance to decline in 38% of cases. This happened with both positive and negative feedback, mostly when the feedback threatened how people saw themselves.

One reason that giving feedback (even when it’s positive) often backfires is because it signals that the boss is in charge and the boss is judgmental. This can make employees stressed and defensive, which makes it harder for them to see another person’s perspective. For example, employees can handle negative feedback by downplaying the importance of the person providing the feedback or the feedback itself. People may even reshape their social networks to avoid the feedback source in order to restore their self-esteem. In other words, they defend themselves by bolstering their attitudes against the person giving feedback.

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