5 Business Technology News Stories This Week: Amazon Replacing Workers With AI

Amazon's CEO warns employees about AI, an ag-tech company releases new tools, WhatsApp and Reddit are doubling down on advertising. Read More

AI Impact Awards 2025: These Education Companies See a Bright Spot Amid Worries

Coursera CEO Greg Hart told Newsweek, AI is "a tool that you can use to help address and narrow that gap" between "haves and have nots." ... Read More

AI Has Taken Classrooms by Storm. School Operations Could Be Next

Education Week retains sole editorial control over the content of this coverage. A version of this article appeared in the December 18, 2024 edition of Education Week as AI Has Taken Classrooms by ... Read More

AI is reshaping education, and TWU now has someone to manage it

After more than a year of talking and planning, Texas Woman's University has hired a chief strategist who will be a sort of architect for the university's policies and curriculum ... Read More

'Godfather of AI' says he's 'glad' to be 77 because the tech probably won't take over the world in his lifetime - MSN

Geoffrey Hinton, the "godfather of AI," says the technology is advancing faster than expected. He warned that if AI becomes superintelligent, humans may have no way of stopping it from taking over. Read More

The biggest ideas in software and technology today - InfoWorld

Astonishing advancements fueled by AI, agentic AI, quantum computing, brain-computer interfaces, and blockchain are on the horizon. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ... Read More

AI Has Already Come for the Interns. You’re Probably Next

JPMorgan Chase has deployed AI to analyze commercial-loan agreements in seconds—work that used to take lawyers and loan officers 360,000 hours a year to complete. More than 40 years’ worth of ... Read More

Those nifty AI tools on your smartphone come with hidden costs

In Washington, my colleagues Lulu Ramadan and Sydney Brownstone wrote a multipart series on the energy impact of data centers on Grant County. They found data centers in 2022 made up 40% of the ... Read More

Technology Has Come A Long Way, Baby, And It's Still Going Strong

As the technology sector has matured, growth has slowed and XLK delivered a lower return than the overall S&P 500 index over the past year, returning just 16.6% compared to the 23.4% return from ... Read More

When Will AI Take Over the World? We Asked ChatGPT

ChatGPT summarized with this: "AI is unlikely to 'take over the world' in the near future. While AGI, or superintelligent AI, could pose risks if developed, we are still far from reaching that stage. Read More

AI Has Become a Technology of Faith - The Atlantic

AI Has Become a Technology of Faith Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington told me that they believe generative AI can help millions of suffering people. I’m not so sure. Read More