Artificial Intelligence

[Mindy]

WSJ News
Jun 12, 2025

Yuval Noah Harari, historian and bestselling author of books like "Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind" and "Homo Deus," joins the WSJ Leadership Institute to examine, through his work on human evolution, ethics, and power, how AI is reshaping global institutions, executive decision-making, and our very concept of intelligence.

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Grace Leung
Jun 27, 2025

Think ChatGPT is all you need for AI at work? You're missing the AI skills that actually separate top performers from everyone else. While most people stick to basic prompting, there's a whole ecosystem of AI capabilities transforming how the smartest professionals work, automate tasks, and accelerate their careers.

In this video, I will share the AI skills that will immediately give you career advantage and maximize your career growth.

00:00 The time is now
00:30 Types of AI at work
01:15 Why prompting framework is overrated
03:38 AI-assisted content creation
05:35 AI-powered business intelligence
07:37 AI-powered research
09:55 AI automation / AI agents
12:29 AI-enhanced decision making
14:18 Know AI's limits

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TEDx Talks
Jun 29, 2025

Mark Hersam is a nanotechnologist who believes that understanding materials at the shortest of length scales can provide solutions to the world's largest problems. Using an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of neuroscience and nanoelectronics, Hersam presents a solution to the greatest societal threat posed by AI.

Dr. Mark C. Hersam, the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Director of the Materials Research Center, and Chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Northwestern University, has made major breakthroughs in the field of nanotechnology. His research interests include nanomaterials, additive manufacturing, nanoelectronics, scanning probe microscopy, renewable energy, and quantum information science. Dr. Hersam has received several honors including the Marshall Scholarship, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, American Vacuum Society Medard Welch Award, U.S. Science Envoy, and MacArthur Fellowship. In addition, he is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Inventors and has founded two companies, NanoIntegris and Volexion, which are suppliers of nanoelectronic and battery materials, respectively.

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Tina Huang
Jun 29, 2025

Timestamps
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00:00 — Intro
00:23 — Tools Overview
02:02 — General Productivity Use Cases
03:43 — Work Productivity Use Cases
09:45 — Daily Life Use Cases
10:35— Personal Finance Use Cases
11:25 — Learning Use Cases
12:46 — Career Use Cases
13:40 — Relationship Use Cases
14:05 — Miscellaneous Use Cases

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The backlash begins
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A backlash against artificial intelligence is gathering pace among workers after major companies warned the technology would take away jobs. Amazon's CEO recently said "we will need fewer people," while Duolingo, Klarna, Salesforce, and Shopify have said similar things, and the tech industry is laying off staff despite strong economic performance.

AI is reported to be writing around 50% of some tech firms' code, and one AI boss said half of entry-level white-collar jobs could soon be lost. There is now an "ambient animosity" toward the technology, a tech writer told WIRED. A series of lawsuits are challenging AI's use of copyrighted material and its use in creative processes, and US unions are increasingly mobilizing against robotics in physical work.

Elsewhere today I read that 20% of S&P 500 companies employ fewer people than they did in 2015.

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David Ondrej
Jul 4, 2025

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