Artificial intelligence (AI) could soon be capable of providing users with financial advice. However, the technology has a significant limitation, experts told CNBC Monday (April 6): AI has no sense of fiduciary duty, nor any obligation to act in a client’s best interests. “The problem that...
Every week brings new headlines about AI transforming work. What those headlines rarely mention: the technology has barely touched the vast majority of it. A new study from MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence mapped 13,275 commercial artificial intelligence applications against a taxonomy of 20,000 work...
Amazon has spent more than a decade automating its logistics network. The company has already deployed more than 1 million robots across its operations, and its recent acquisitions have steadily extended machine capability deeper into the fulfillment stack. What those investments did not solve was...
Artificial intelligence systems can already perform tasks equal to 11.7% of the workforce in the United States, according to research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released Wednesday (Nov. 26). That represents about $1.2 trillion in wages tied to potentially automatable work across finance, healthcare...
April 01, 2026
Every week brings new headlines about AI transforming work. What those headlines rarely mention: the technology has barely touched the vast majority of it. A new study from MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence mapped 13,275 commercial artificial intelligence applications against a taxonomy of 20,000 work activities drawn from the U.S. Department of Labor’s occupational database. […]
March 16, 2022
For many years, Google, Meta, Amazon and other Big Tech companies have been the dominant players of Web 2.0, the traditional way we use the internet. However, Web3, or a...
August 21, 2020
Digital dollars are a maybe – but if so, not for a while. And there’ll be quite a bit of tinkering with the technology (especially the infrastructure) and the use...
April 29, 2026
IBM has announced two new hubs at which it will work on artificial intelligence and quantum computing. In Chicago, IBM plans to create 750 full-time jobs in AI, cybersecurity, data science, quantum and other fields at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP), according to a press release issued Wednesday (April 29) by the Illinois […]
April 06, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) could soon be capable of providing users with financial advice. However, the technology has a significant limitation, experts told CNBC Monday (April 6): AI has no sense of...
June 18, 2025
Can AI become less rigid in its thinking when exposed to human reasoning? New research at MIT suggests that could be the case. A report Tuesday (June 17) from the university’s Sloan School of Management covers...
April 17, 2025
Employees who use generative artificial intelligence tools in the workplace without company approval or oversight — a practice known as “bring your own AI’ or BYOAI — could introduce risks...
