Tag: AI

Electricity Prices Are Climbing More Than Twice as Fast as Inflation Summary Electricity costs in the US have risen at more than twice the overall inflation rate over the past…

US Tech Stocks Hit By Concerns Over Future of AI Boom Summary US tech shares slid after fresh warnings that the AI-driven rally may be overdone. Nvidia fell about 3.5%,…

Microsoft Warns Excel’s New AI Function ‘Can Give Incorrect Responses’ in High-Stakes Scenarios Summary Microsoft is testing a COPILOT function in Excel that uses OpenAI’s gpt-4.1-mini model to auto-fill spreadsheet…

Microsoft Readies Big Feature Updates For Next Month and Beyond Summary Windows 11 will receive a staged series of UI refinements and AI enhancements beginning with a September feature drop…

Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts Summary AI-powered virtual avatars deployed on major Chinese e‑commerce platforms are outselling human salespeople by operating around the clock. Shanghai…

Electricity prices in the US have risen at more than double the general inflation rate over the past year, according to reporting highlighted by Slashdot from an NPR piece. Key…

US Tech Stocks Hit By Concerns Over Future of AI Boom – Slashdot Summary US tech shares slid after fresh warnings that the AI hype may be overstated. Nvidia fell…

Microsoft Warns Excel’s New AI Function ‘Can Give Incorrect Responses’ in High-Stakes Scenarios Summary Microsoft is testing a COPILOT feature in Excel that uses OpenAI’s gpt-4.1-mini to fill spreadsheet cells…

Microsoft Readies Big Feature Updates For Next Month and Beyond Summary Microsoft is preparing a series of Windows 11 feature updates beginning in September and continuing through the autumn. The…

Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts Summary AI-powered virtual avatars are selling on Chinese e-commerce platforms around the clock and, in many cases, outperforming human presenters.…