Investors confront four harsh realities facing AI as a business

Strategy secured approval to pay STRC dividends twice monthly as its bitcoin holdings climbed to 845,256 BTC. The move follows recent treasury activity and could reshape how income investors view the company’s preferred stock. Strategy’s STRC Shift Could Change How Investors Price Preferred Income After buying 1,550 BTC and selling 32 BTC one week earlier, […]

Google is rolling out "across the board" updates to NotebookLM. The AI-powered note-taking app now uses Google's upgraded Gemini 3.5 model, which will allow it to respond with "more accurate and reliable information," according to a blog post on Monday. Launched in 2023, NotebookLM allows you to interact with your notes and sources using AI, as well as ask questions about the materials. With this update, Google says you can start a research project by just asking NotebookLM questions about a topic, instead of importing notes or YouTube videos. NotebookLM will use Google Search to help you find relevant sources, building on its "discover" fe … Read the full story at The Verge.

Polly Creed takes issue with a quote in an article that denigrated the importance of the work that mums do Robert dos Santos’s call to be more human, to connect and to challenge AI and the dark cloud it’s set to bring upon humanity is certainly laudable – a valiant rallying cry for the dystopian, uncertain times we’re living through (I’m asking people to do a lot, but that’s what it means to be a human’: why one man made the first straight-to-video movie in 20 years, 4 June). However, I found one comment the film-maker made baffling: “Someone once said that if your mum can do it, it doesn’t have value.” It’s frustrating that, in a world where we’ve made so much progress to combat everyday sexism, a sentiment like this could still be reeled off in a national newspaper. But also, who once said this? Whoever it was, they were clearly wrong. After all, how many mothers are doctors, artists, scientists, lawyers, cleaners, social workers, teachers? Does their work not have any value? Not t

Everybody is watching to see what comes from Apple at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) today. There’s a great deal at stake, as when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) today’s event represents an existentially important moment for the company.  Apple execs absolutely must convince developers, industry watchers, users — all of us — that it has learned from its well-publicized mistakes of the past two years and put together a serious proposition for AI across its platforms. What we think we know Right now, we think Apple intends to offer a hybrid of its own self-developed AI tools and services combined with others made with Google Gemini — all supported by an open approach to using AI services from third-party providers such as Anthropic or OpenAI.  When it comes to implementation, this should mean a contextually sensitive Siri that can respond to what you have on the screen of your device, or in the viewfinder of your camera app. The idea here is that you’ll be abl

Putting humans in the loop is pointless if they simply rubber-stamp authoritative-sounding information

Many enterprise employees are performing work tasks on free AI accounts. The way to fix this is withcollaboration between managers and employees on the tools to use.

Focus on business understanding grounded in technology, not on technology first.

AI-driven job cuts in banking highlight a shift towards tech-centric operations, potentially reshaping industry roles and competitive dynamics. The post Banks prepare for widespread job cuts as AI integration accelerates appeared first on Crypto Briefing.