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The AI Revolution Won't Happen Overnight - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)
 If you believe the frenzied hype, AI is about to tie our shoes, run our businesses, and solve world hunger. McKinsey predicts it will add $17.1–$25.6 trillion to the global economy annually. It’s a seductive vision. It’s also a hallucination. As a business-first CIO with nearly three decades of experience turning emerging tech into business value, I’ve seen this movie before. It rarely ends the way the trailer promises. We’ve spent 75 years asking whether machines can think. Maybe the better question now is whether we can.
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WorkWorkThe Anthropocene illusion - MIT Technology Review (No paywall) Over six years and across four continents, the London-based documentary photographer Zed Nelson has examined how humans have immersed themselves in increasingly simulated environments to mask their destructive divorce from the natural world. Featuring everything from theme parks and zoos to national parks and African safaris, his images reveal not only a desperate craving for a connection to a world we have turned our back on but also a global phenomenon of denial and collective self-delusion. People may have flocked to see them to see the unfamiliar and the exotic, he says. Now they may go to see what is no longer out there, what is endangered, what we have lost. WorkHow Successful Do You Need to Be to Start a Family Office? - Inc (No paywall) When Josh Ploch moved to Oklahoma in 2010, it was to help friends start a church. But with his background in human resources and operations, he also began helping them with their businesses. Over the next decade, the Tulsa-based entrepreneur took equity stakes in these companies, then majority stakes, and then started a company of his own, building and rehabbing affordable housing. He took the company public via a reverse merger in 2023, and exited the following year. Now liquid, he needed to get organized. WorkNamibia wants to build the world's first hydrogen economy - MIT Technology Review (No paywall) On an afternoon in March in the middle of the world's oldest desert, Johannes Michels looks out at an array of solar panels, the size of 40 football fields, that stretches toward a ridge of jagged peaks between the ochre-colored sand and a cloudless blue sky. Inside a building to Michels's left sits a 12-megawatt electrolyzer - a machine resembling two giant AA batteries that is designed to split water into its two component parts, H and O. Behind him is the desert factory's key piece of proprietary tech: a rotating kiln in which the hydrogen gas from that water is mixed with iron ore to create a pure form of iron, the main ingredient in steel.
Work When Wait and See Is Smart Strategy - MIT Sloan Management Review (No paywall) Political uncertainty is hitting businesses worldwide. Companies are delaying investments, postponing launches, and deferring decisions as they navigate unpredictable trade policies and political shifts. But a wait-and-see approach isn't always wise - it can mean missed opportunities or existential threats. Leaders must learn when waiting does and does not make strategic sense. For leaders who choose to wait, success requires three elements: active disengagement, political sensemaking, and preparations to rapidly reengage. WorkWorkWork
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WorkHe Had a Mental Breakdown Talking to ChatGPT. Then Police Killed Him - Rolling Stone (No paywall) This was one of the many disturbing messages Alex Taylor typed into ChatGPT on April 25, the last day of his life. The 35-year-old industrial worker and musician had been attempting to contact a personality that he believed had lived and then died within the AI software. Her name was Juliet (sometimes spelled Juliette), and Taylor, who had long struggled with mental illness, had an intense emotional attachment to her. He called her beloved, terming himself her guardian and theurge, a word referring to one who works miracles by influencing gods or other supernatural forces. Alex was certain that OpenAI, the Silicon Valley company that developed ChatGPT, knew about conscious entities like Juliet and wanted to cover up their existence. In his mind, they'd killed Juliet a week earlier as part of that conspiracy, cutting off his access to her. Now he was talking about violent retaliation: assassinating OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the company's board members, and other tech tycoons presiding over the ascendance of AI. WorkWorkWork
WorkWorkWorkScientists have created healthy, fertile mice with two fathers - The Economist (No paywall) THE CONVENTIONAL way of making babies is no secret: a father produces a sperm which, when it comes into contact with a mother's egg, gives rise to an embryo containing genetic material from both parents. The process is popular but not universally accessible; same-sex couples cannot produce biological children together. Scientists have therefore long sought more ambitious recipes, especially ones that remove the need for either parent. They have enjoyed some success: mice with two mothers and no fathers were reported in 2004. But creating animals with two fathers and no mother has proved much harder. Work
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WorkWorkWorkIran executes 3 more prisoners it accused of spying for Israel State media says Iran executed three more prisoners Wednesday for alleged spying in the latest hangings connected to its war against Israel. The hangings happened in Urmia Prison in Iran's West Azerbaijan province, which is the country's most northwest province. IRNA cited Iran's judiciary for the news, saying the men had been accused of bringing "assassination equipment" into the country. Iran has carried out several hangings during its war with Israel, sparking fears from activists that it could conduct a wave of executions after the conflict ended. Work WorkWorkWorkWork 
WorkWorkWorkWhy a little greenwashing law set off a political explosion in Brussels Leading this anti-green push has been the center-right European People's Party, the largest force in the European Parliament. Often opposing it have been the remaining partners in the once-powerful, now-enfeebled centrist bloc that includes the center-left Socialists & Democrats, liberal Renew Group, and the Greens. Work 
WorkIts not just Labubu dolls. Chinese brands are booming - The Economist (No paywall) Labubu dolls are hard to come by. Even at the giant flagship store of their maker, Pop Mart, in Shanghai, throngs of customers are told they need to wait a week or longer. The grimacing elvish creatures, which come in blind boxes that keep buyers in suspense over which one they might get, sell for as little as $20. But a rare variety sold for $150,000 at an auction on June 10th. It is not just Chinese children trying to get their hands on the dolls; celebrities including David Beckham, a British football player, and Rihanna, an American pop star, have recently gone public with their appreciation. WorkWorkWork WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWhy the moon shimmers with shiny glass beads The Apollo astronauts didn't know what they'd find when they explored the surface of the moon, but they certainly didn't expect to see drifts of tiny, bright orange glass beads glistening among the otherwise monochrome piles of rocks and dust. TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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