AI is giving Santa a boost this holiday season

AI is giving Santa a boost this holiday season

Manonallard | E+ | Getty Images For many Americans, it’s the first holiday season when most of the family may know the term “artificial intelligence” if it comes up during Christmas dinner. Just don’t expect AI to do the heavy lifting for Santa quite yet. The rise of generative AI — and the use of … Read more

Coinbase secures crypto license in France, expanding further in Europe

Coinbase secures crypto license in France, expanding further in Europe

POLAND – 2023/08/01: In this photo illustration, a Coinbase logo displayed on a smartphone with stock server lights in the background. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase secured registration with the French markets regulator, a company spokesperson confirmed Thursday, paving the way … Read more

November’s CPI’s both good and bad

November’s CPI’s both good and bad

An Exxon Mobil gas station in Las Vegas on July 25, 2023. Bridgett Bennett | Bloomberg | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you see? … Read more

New 1.5-billion-pixel image shows Running Chicken Nebula in unprecedented detail

New 1.5-billion-pixel image shows Running Chicken Nebula in unprecedented detail

The Running Chicken Nebula comprises several clouds, all of which we can see in this vast image from the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO’s Paranal site. This 1.5-billion-pixel image spans an area in the sky of about 25 full Moons. The clouds shown in wispy pink plumes are full of gas and dust, … Read more

How AI alters middle managers’ work

How AI alters middle managers’ work

Credit: Journal of Service Research (2023). DOI: 10.1177/10946705231220462 The introduction of artificial intelligence is a significant part of the digital transformation bringing challenges and changes to the job descriptions among management. A study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland shows that integrating artificial intelligence systems into service teams increases demands imposed on middle management … Read more

How doctors are using Google’s new AI models for health care

How doctors are using Google’s new AI models for health care

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, speaks on artificial intelligence during a Bruegel think tank conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 20, 2020. Yves Herman | Reuters Google on Wednesday announced MedLM, a suite of new health-care-specific artificial intelligence models designed to help clinicians and researchers carry out complex studies, summarize doctor-patient interactions and … Read more

Wildflowers increasingly doing without insect pollinators

Wildflowers increasingly doing without insect pollinators

Field pansies from a ‘resurrected’ lineage monitored during this study. Credit: © Samson Acoca-Pidolle Scientists at the CNRS and the University of Montpellier have discovered that flowering plants growing in farmland are increasingly doing without insect pollinators. As reproduction becomes more difficult for them in an environment depleted of pollinating insects, the plants are evolving … Read more

Warner Bros., Paramount merger talks may draw out NBCUniversal

Warner Bros., Paramount merger talks may draw out NBCUniversal

Let’s say you have a crush on two people and you find out one of them may like you back. Do you just start dating that person, or do you find out what the other person thinks, too? That’s where Warner Bros. Discovery finds itself today. The company has held preliminary merger talks with Paramount … Read more

Markets see worst day in months on FedEx slump

Markets see worst day in months on FedEx slump

A FedEx truck and cars commute on Highway 101 during heavy rain in San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States on December 20, 2023. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything … Read more

GM’s Cruise dismisses nine key leaders amid safety probe

GM’s Cruise dismisses nine key leaders amid safety probe

A Cruise self-driving car, which is owned by General Motors, is seen outside the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. Heather Somerville | Reuters General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has dismissed nine “key leaders” amid ongoing safety investigations sparked by an October accident in San Francisco, according to an internal message obtained by CNBC. The … Read more