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To Scale GenAI, Companies Need to Focus on 3 Factors - Harvard Business Review

The risk with generative AI is not that leaders fail to try it, but that trying is as far as they get. Despite the progress made by vendors, using AI-enhanced productivity tools alone will not give you a competitive edge — just as provisioning smartphones, email, or web access to your team is nothing more strategic than providing electricity or running water. There are three drivers of AI scale: community, commonality, and coordination. Companies should enable their explorers, build platforms instead of buying products, and prioritize for impact.

Most leaders have a set of talking points to sound smart on generative AI. Few, however, have a coherent plan for AI transformation. Given the gap between a press release and a blueprint for algorithmic reinvention, this is a problem for any business serious about leveraging AI, rather than chasing the latest technology trend. What they need right now is to know how to scale proof-of-concept pilots and projects into reimagined processes and platforms.

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Saleemul Huq lobbied ceaselessly to make poor countries heard - The Economist

At every COP meeting up to the present one in Dubai, he would be there. A COP junkie, he called himself. He would set himself up in a good strategic spot, near the entrance or on a prominent sofa, arm himself with coffee, cigarettes and his permanently pinging phone, and draw a crowd. This was his “mobile office” where he could waylay useful people, listen patiently to delegates, students and petitioners and embrace old friends. If he was not in his “office”, colleagues said, it was because he was everywhere.

Saleemul Huq was not there as a negotiator. He had fine credentials, including director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development and director of climate research at the International Institute for Environment and Development; but behind all that lay an ardent agitator. It was he who instructed delegates from the least-developed countries to “Tell it like it is!”—to tell the rich countries, the no-holds-barred historical polluters, that the loss and damage they had caused had to be paid for; and that adaptation to climate change, rather than mere mitigation, should now be everyone’s aim.

He had been banging this drum for almost three decades. In that time the world had passed, like a frog in heating water, from drowsiness to boiling point, and still no efficiently organised global fund had been set up to compensate the farmers whose land had been flooded by sea-level rise or whose homes had been shattered by storms. He saw such ragged figures every day in Dhaka, camping and sleeping in the streets. If refugees from war deserved global sympathy, so did these, displaced by climate.

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The Murky Shoplifting Narrative - The Atlantic

Perceptions of an increase in retail theft are fueling changes to policy and the experience of shopping.

Despite inconclusive evidence, some retailers have seized on the narrative that theft is a major issue, pressuring lawmakers to crack down and changing the shopping experience as a result.

The specter of shoplifting is haunting America. Viral videos show frightening scenes: people in masks smashing windows, groups swarming stores, thieves attacking workers. Retail executives have referred to theft as a serious threat, suggesting that their companies are victims of a national crime wave. Already, they have made a number of decisions—including locking up items, closing stores, and advocating for harsher larceny laws—under the auspices of trying to deter theft. Despite some disturbing reports of both violent and nonviolent crime in stores, data do not conclusively show that instances of shoplifting are up everywhere; shoplifting has risen overall during the past four years in New York and Los Angeles but dropped off in more than a dozen other cities, according to a recent report from the Council on Criminal Justice.

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Jewish tech leaders met with TikTok’s CEO to raise concerns that the platform is biased toward Pro-Palestine content - Fortune

TikTok has long attracted scrutiny from the United States government, with some officials deeming the Chinese-owned social media app a security risk. Increasingly, other influential groups are also criticizing the platform, claiming that it allows for a variety of harmful content to proliferate—especially content related to the current war between Israel and Hamas.

Fortune has learned that on November 16, about 40 mostly Jewish tech leaders met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew and others on the company’s leadership team to express their concern over data they say shows that TikTok’s algorithm is favoring content that supports Palestine over pro-Israel content at a disproportionate rate. (Others, including celebrities and creators, have also met with TikTok to express similar worries in recent weeks.) The group, which includes the founders of Gusto, Bonobos, and Tinder, plus partners from firms like Techaviv and Bloomberg Beta, among other tech players, says that their goal was to get answers to what they see as an unexplainable discrepancy. They also wanted to share concerns over a rise in antisemitic incidents across the country and any possible correlation to online content distributed by social media platforms–particularly TikTok, which has become the de facto search engine for Gen Z users. Lastly, they were hoping to convince TikTok to take action too: To reexamine its algorithms and its policies.

“For every view of pro-Israel posts, there are about 54 views of pro-Palestine posts,” says Anthony Goldbloom, the founder of Sumble, a startup that curates public data for a variety of applications, and the mastermind of the November meeting with TikTok. “If TikTok was just a mirror reflecting back what people believe, it shouldn’t be a 54:1 ratio.”

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