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Meta’s Muse TV ad is the latest sign that AI agents are going mainstream
The next shiny new AI thing has arrived: The personal AI agent. Once mostly the domain of Silicon Valley coders who used them to amp up their…
This Ford exec put her family’s Claude assistant on a PIP. ChatGPT has taken over.
Claudette is on a performance improvement plan. Three months ago, Whitney Stefko Dover, a director and senior counsel of policy and legal operations…
A former Siemens CEO thought he was investing $2.5 million in Deepak Chopra’s app. Prosecutors say it was fraud.
In 2023, a wellness entrepreneur pitched Klaus Kleinfeld, the former CEO of Siemens and Alcoa, on an opportunity to invest in Deepak Chopra’s…
I’m living in a 150-square-foot converted garage at my parents’ house. They’re helping me through a rough transition.
In mid-August, I moved out of the home I shared with my husband. My new temporary home is my parents’ converted single-car garage, a roughly…
Half the drones in a recent US Army combat exercise were designed to be expendable
The US Army brought thousands of drones to a recent combat exercise, and roughly half were designed to be expendable. Soldiers could use and lose the…
I left New York, moved to Boston, and had 3 kids. Along the way, I built a career that looks nothing like the one I planned.
As a teenager, I’d sit on my bed flipping through glossy magazines, fascinated and completely absorbed by the empowering stories about women. The…
I thought I wanted the American dream. Moving to a small city in Spain changed my mind.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kevin Schreck, a 33-year-old from North Carolina who moved to Spain in 2018. The conversation…
Stock compensation gives Big Tech workers a powerful reason to stay. Layoffs and the AI boom are changing the equation.
The day after Rob Waters learned of his layoff from Google last year, he was encouraged to apply for a new role there as an AI sales specialist…
I make up to $15,000 a month online answering appliance questions. I love the flexibility.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Matthew Rankin, a 52-year-old appliance technician based in Greenville, South Carolina. The…
I’m the CEO of a self-improvement app, and I hired someone on my board to argue with me
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Oleksandr “Alex” Matsiuk, cofounder and CEO of RiseGuide, an expert-powered microlearning app…