In November, 102-year-old British carmaker Jaguar unveiled its rebrand and logo ahead of the company’s reinvention as an EV maker. “This is a reimagining that recaptures the essence of Jaguar, returning it to the values that once made it so loved, but making it relevant for a contemporary audience,” said Gerry McGovern, Jaguar Land Rover’s…
Intel announced on Monday that CEO Pat Gelsinger, 63, retired effective December 1. Gelsinger also stepped down from the board of directors on the same date. He had been with Intel for over three decades including four years as CEO. The abrupt announcement further states that Intel’s Chief Financial Officer David Zinsner and Intel Products…
The CEO of the online instrument store, The Musician’s Club, fired almost all of his employees and freelancers (99 out of 110 workers) for missing an early meeting in a profanity-laden Slack message. “For those of you who did not show up to the meeting this morning, consider this your official notice: you’re all fired,”…
Shoppers skipped the lines at in-person stores in favor of virtual carts and one-click checkouts this year, as consumers spent more online during Black Friday than ever before. Adobe Analytics tracked the purchasing habits of U.S. shoppers and found that they spent $10.8 billion on online purchases on Black Friday. That’s 10% more than in…
A new study shows that the highest-paid tech job differs widely from state to state. AI education platform DataCamp drew from 2023 salary data published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to find the tech jobs with the best average compensation by state. Though New Jersey’s top role was database architect, with an average…
AI could transform healthcare, the workplace, filmmaking and education — but its power could also be destructive in the wrong hands. Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt elaborated on the risks of AI in a Monday episode of The Prof G Pod podcast with NYU professor, entrepreneur and author Scott Galloway. Though Schmidt highlighted that AI…
On Tuesday, a group of 16 artists leaked OpenAI’s unreleased Sora text-to-video generator to the public. In an open letter addressed to “Corporate AI Overlords” and posted on the AI hosting platform Hugging Face, the artists explained that they obtained early access to Sora in exchange for testing it. They said they weren’t against AI…
According to the data from the National Retail Federation and consumer research firm Prosper Insights & Analytics, 183.4 million people in the U.S. will shop (in-store and online) from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday. Meanwhile, Black Friday alone is expected to see 131.7 million shoppers. But where, how, and why are consumers spending their cash? Shopify’s…
Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki died in August from lung cancer at age 56. She was Google’s 16th employee and reportedly rented out her garage to Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the late 1990s when they were forming the company. On Monday, YouTube shared a letter they titled, “From Susan,” that Wojcicki…
Despite most of Gen Z thinking that their jobs could be replaced with AI in the next decade, the vast majority are still using AI to help complete office tasks — and they’re open about it. A new survey released on Monday from Google assessed the AI habits of 1,005 full-time U.S.-based knowledge workers aged…
