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15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to
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several types of work where AI can be particularly useful, given the
current capabilities and limitations of LLMs. Though this list is
based in science, it draws even more from experience. Like any form of
wisdom, using AI well requires holding opposing ideas in mind: it can
be transformative yet must be approached with skepticism, powerful yet
prone to subtle failures, essential for some tasks yet actively
harmful for others. I also want to caveat that you shouldn't take this
list too seriously except as inspiration - you know your own situation
best, and local knowledge matters more than any general principles.
With all that out of the way, below are several types of tasks where
AI can be especially useful, given current capabilities—and some
scenarios where you should remain wary.

Work that requires quantity. For example, the number of ideas you
generate determines the quality of the best idea. You want to generate
a lot of ideas in any brainstorming session. Most people stop after
generating just a few ideas because they become exhausted but, the AI
can provide hundreds that do not meaningfully repeat.1

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Editor's Note: Knowing when to use AI turns out to be a form of
wisdom, not just technical knowledge. Like most wisdom, it's somewhat
paradoxical: AI is often most useful where we're already expert enough
to spot its mistakes, yet least helpful in the deep work that made us
experts in the first place. It works best for tasks we could do
ourselves but shouldn't waste time on, yet can actively harm our
learning when we use it to skip necessary struggles.

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The History of the Pivot Table, The Spreadsheet's Most Powerful Tool
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Today, pivot tables are among the most important and commonly used
tools in the spreadsheet wizard's toolbox

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Blackstone's Data-Center Ambitions School a City on AI Power Strains
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The power lines weren't even built, yet ran into resistance at every
turn. They would encroach on more than 100 properties and houses,
hitting home values and crossing people's yards.















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A CEO's Guide to New Year Strategy: 5 Vital Questions
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As business executives plan for 2025, it's essential that we ask
strategic questions that help shape priorities, align resources, and
drive our long-term success.

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Cloud Computing Tax Threatens Chicago's Silicon Valley Ambitions
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Now a move to increase an unusual tax on cloud computing risks adding
to a broader technology industry downturn to derail progress in the
third-largest US city.














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Governments are banning kids from social media: will that protect them
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A year from now, children under the age of 16 in Australia will be
barred from many social-media platforms -- the highest minimum-age
limit in the world.

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Jake Paul details rules for rematch as post-Mike Tyson plans take
shape
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Jake Paul has stated he would be open to a rematch with Tommy Fury,
but only under the condition of a 12-round boxing fight. The
YouTuber-turned-professional-boxer's sole defeat in the ring was
handed to him by Fury during their bout in Saudi Arabia back in
February 2023.














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Breaking down Bolt.new - Zero flow engineering | Notion
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Bolt is a web app where you can create websites with an LLM. It worked
so well that the product went viral, achieving $8 million in annual
recurring revenue within two months of launch.

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It's time for the music industry to support the artistic legacies and
futures of working musicians--not shareholder profits. We, the
undersigned musicians, wholeheartedly oppose major record labels'
unjust lawsuit targeting the Internet Archive, a crucial non profit
cultural institution.














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Anduril and Palantir to Accelerate AI Capabilities for National
Security
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DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Palantir and Anduril, two leading companies
at the intersection of commercial technology and national security,
are launching a new consortium to ensure that the U.S. government
leads the world in artificial intelligence.

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A $31 Billion Ad Deal Shows the Mad Men Are Scared - Bloomberg (No
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Omnicoms deal for Interpublic faces massive risks from assuaging
regulators to retaining clients and staff. But threats from AI mean
doing nothing is riskier.














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Germany and France agree to work with Syrian rebels on 'basis of
fundamental human rights'
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Western capitals are debating how to engage with the Syrian rebels,
who are led by a group that is a designated terrorist organization.

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Luigi Mangione Left a Long Trail Online. One Part Has Proven
Irresistible.
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With Assad in Moscow and armed rebels taking control of Latakia
governorate, what will become of Russia's military bases in Syria?
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Following the rapid overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime, Moscow is
now facing the prospect of losing its naval and air bases in Syria.
Russia's two key bases are located in the Latakia governorate, which
is already under the control of rebel groups.

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MicroStrategy Buys Another $2.1 Billion Worth of Bitcoin
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MicroStrategy (MSTR) bought more bitcoin (BTCUSD) last week, for the
fifth week in a row. The company spent roughly $2.1 billion to add
21,550 bitcoins to its stash that has now grown to 423,650 BTC, and is
worth close to $41.5 billion at current prices.














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How boundary-pushing creatives are transforming Muscat's arts scene
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It rains all night, then it rains all day, and then it rains all night
again. The Sultanate of Oman -- one of the hottest, driest countries
on Earth -- has been swallowed by a deluge, with a year's worth of
precipitation falling in four days.

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We've Seen Kash Patel's Enemies List. It's Terrifying.
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President-elect Donald Trump's pick for FBI director, Kash Patel, is
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How Netflix Made Magic Look Real in 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'
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The town of Macondo never existed. It was never supposed to. And yet,
here it is.

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Shaken by Assad's sudden fall, Syria faces seismic turning point
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In the end the Assad regime was so hollow, corrupt and decayed that it
collapsed in less than a fortnight. No one I have spoken to has been
anything other than astonished by the speed with which the regime
turned to dust.

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Scientists advise EU to halt solar geoengineering
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Scientific advisers to the European Commission are calling for a
moratorium across the EU on efforts to artificially cool Earth through
solar geoengineering.

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7 wild Sora videos blowing up social media after its launch
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OpenAI officially launched Sora on Monday, Dec. 9, and people are
already testing its capabilities. The company showed off its AI video
generator last year before launching it during its 12 Days of OpenAI
series of announcements. It was made available to the U.S.

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From 'Fortnite' to 'Hogwarts Legacy': One university fuels Utah's $2
billion video game industry
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explores cities that have transformed into business hubs with an
entrepreneurial spirit and attracted capital, companies and employees.

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What we know about 'person of interest' in healthcare CEO shooting
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Police have named a "strong person of interest" in the slaying of the
chief executive of United Healthcare in New York City following a
nearly week-long manhunt.

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Suspect in Health Care C.E.O.'s Killing Charged With Murder
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Luigi Mangione, 26, has been charged in Manhattan with second-degree
murder, according to online court records. He is also charged with
three gun charges and forgery. Earlier on Monday, Mr. Mangione was
detained at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pa.

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The Bizarre Normalcy of Trump 2.0
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In postelection Washington, the mood is calm--and the developments are
disturbing. A very strange disjuncture has opened up in Washington
between the serene mood and the alarming developments that are under
way.

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Taylor Swift Has Handed Out $197 Million in Bonuses to Cast and Crew
on Eras Tour: Report
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On the heels of news that Taylor Swift's just-completed Eras Tour
grossed more than $2 billion, now it's being reported that the
superstar handed out $197 million of that haul to tour employees as
bonuses on top of their regular salaries, according to People
magazine.

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Hair Loss Medication Is Giving Babies 'Werwolf Syndrome'
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Minoxidil is a common hair loss medication that is topically applied.
Babies are getting exposed to this hair growth cream all across
Europe, which is resulting in them suffering from a condition called
hypertrichosis. Hypertrichosis is an excessive growth of hair all over
the body.

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An 84-Year-Old Pop Superstar Just Dropped an Album -- How Does She
Sound So Good?
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Mina, one of the bestselling Italian musical artists of all time, just
dropped a new album -- at the age of 84.

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Donald Trump says Prince William 'looks better in person'
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Donald Trump has described the Prince of Wales as a "good looking guy"
after a meeting with him in Paris at the weekend. "He looked really,
very handsome last night. Some people look better in person. He looked
great.

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Apple's Johny Srouji likely on Intel's new CEO short list
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Apple's vice president of Hardware Technologies Johny Srouji became
known for his work leading the development of Apple Silicon chips,
which have become a fundamental part of the company's products.

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Google unveils mindboggling quantum computing chip
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It measures just 4cm squared but it possesses almost inconceivable
speed. Google has built a computing chip that takes just five minutes
to complete tasks that would take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
years for some of the world's fastest conventional computers to
complete.

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Three Things to Know About Incentivizing CEOs
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When boards are hiring a new chief executive, they have tough choices
to make as they negotiate terms of employment with their top pick. CEO
contracts are complex documents that typically include incentives
tying compensation to performance on a range of metrics.

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Quantum Computing Inches Closer to Reality After Another Google
Breakthrough
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In 2019, a team of Google researchers said they had built a machine
capable of performing tasks that were not possible with traditional
supercomputers. They described this machine, called a quantum
computer, as a turning point in the evolution of information
technology.

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The 82nd Golden Globes nominations were announced Monday morning and
the unconventional musical "Emilia Perez" had plenty to sing about:
The Netflix film topped all movies with 10 nominations, followed by
"The Brutalist" and "Conclave.

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Remote-controlled gene therapy uses ultrasound to kill cancer
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A new kind of cancer gene therapy can be remotely activated at a
specific part of the body. The team developed a version of CRISPR that
responds to ultrasound, and demonstrated how it can be used to clear
cancer in mice.

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Microsoft's AI boss and Sam Altman disagree on what it takes to get to
AGI
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman disagrees with OpenAI CEO Sam
Altman's recent claim in a Reddit AMA that artificial general
intelligence, or AGI, is possible on today's hardware.

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How the Sounds of Icebergs Reverberate Around the World
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The Best Hotels Around the World, According to AD Editors
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She Revolutionized Medicine. Why Isn't She a Household Name?
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THE CURE FOR WOMEN: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to
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AI-Powered Robots Can Be Tricked Into Acts of Violence
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Researchers hacked several robots infused with large language models,
getting them to behave dangerously--and pointing to a bigger problem
ahead.

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The slow death of the hands-on engineering manager
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95% of engineering managers wish to write more code, but feel they
just can't. Today I'm going to share 2 ideas you can implement with
only a few hours a week, that will be a huge help for your dev team.

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Chinese think tank recommends Nvidia chips for data centres, warning
of high transfer costs
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A government-backed think tank has suggested that data centres in
mainland China should choose Nvidia chips, warning of the high costs
involved in shifting to domestic solutions."If the conditions allow,
[data centres] can choose [Nvidia's] A100 and H100 high-performance
computing units.

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Is It Time to Quit Coffee for Good?
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Petty Officer Second Class Marcus Bivens stood before a panel of U.S.
Navy officers, hands cuffed behind his back, facing charges of an
unauthorized absence. For his first fifteen years of service, Bivens
had been considered a "squared-away sailor"--orderly, competent,
conscientious.

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How to Exercise for Better Sleep
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Sleep and exercise work together like gears in a machine: When one
turns smoothly, the other follows suit. Quality sleep supports
athletic recovery and performance, while exercise releases useful
brain chemicals, lowers stress and can help you fall asleep faster.

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A firm randomly assigned its scientists AI: here's what happened
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous in applied
research, but can it actually invent useful materials faster than
humans can? It is still too early to tell, but a massive study
suggests that it might. Researchers built an 'AI Scientist' -- what
can it do?

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The youth are addicted to generative AI models -- but their parents
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Iran spent decades and billions of dollars building a network of
militias and governments that allowed it to exercise political and
military influence across the Middle East, and deter foreign attacks
on its soil.

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The secrets of the man who made Nvidia the worlds most valuable
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Every morning, the man who built one of the worlds most valuable
companies scrolls through his inbox and looks at 100 of the most
important emails that hell see all day. And on Sunday nights, he pours
himself a glass of his favorite Scotch and reads even more of them.

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