by John Hill | Sep 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
At one point, you could make a living by sawing off a block of frozen river, transporting it to the city, storing it in straw and selling it to people to keep their food cold. Now we have bluetooth refrigerators. This is an example of what I like to call human...
by John Hill | Sep 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
David Head is CEO of Endorsed, a San Francisco identity verification startup that uses AI to screen candidates. That task includes detecting signs of potential imposters and fraudsters, which these days includes a torrent of North Korean operatives posing as IT...
by John Hill | Sep 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Last month, Anthropic was at the center of public backlash for a plan, called “Project Panama,” to “destructively scan all the books in the world” to train its Claude AI models. Now, the AI company finds itself again facing the (copyright) music. Sony Music and Warner...
by John Hill | Sep 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
When Jasmine Leli, a Buffalo, New York-based Starbucks barista, trialed the company’s new blending powder last month, she was greeted with a plume of dust that irritated her nose and throat for hours afterward. The powder was introduced last month as part of the...
by John Hill | Sep 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Beverage and syrup company Torani hasn’t laid off a single employee since the Great Depression. Not in 2008, not during globalization or the automation wave that gutted American manufacturing towns, and not during the pandemic that shut the cafes that buy most of its...
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