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Corporate leadership: Why the tone at the top has moral consequences

June 2, 2022

In November, Air Canada made headlines when its CEO gave a talk at the Chamber of Commerce in Montréal and admitted he doesn’t speak French. Michael Rousseau has lived for more than a decade in Montréal, where […]

As a global infrastructure giant, Facebook must uphold human rights

June 14, 2022

Facebook — its new corporate name is Meta — has always wanted to get to know you. Its public goal has ostensibly been to connect people. It’s been wildly successful in doing so by building out what […]

Five rules for effective leadership in difficult times

May 30, 2022

After another punishing year dominated by COVID, the omicron threat appears to be receding and many people may now be looking at the beginning of the end of the pandemic. But the fallout from COVID will still […]

Microsoft announces $2.9 billion investment in Japan

April 9, 2024

Microsoft on Tuesday announced a $2.9 billion investment over the next two years in Japan to bolster the country’s push [...]

EU probes Chinese wind turbine suppliers over subsidies

April 9, 2024

The European Union on Tuesday announced a probe into Chinese wind turbine suppliers, the latest move by Brussels targeting Beijing [...]

Malaysia orders Meta, TikTok to forge plans on harmful content

April 9, 2024

Malaysia has ordered tech giants Meta and TikTok to present plans to combat harmful content online, authorities said Tuesday, after [...]

How vulnerable are European countries to changes in gas prices?

April 9, 2024

On 24 February 2022, the Russian army entered Ukraine, escalating a conflict that had begun almost a decade earlier. On [...]

What’s behind the spate of recent incidents on Boeing planes?

April 9, 2024

Boeing has been in the headlines a lot lately following a series of incidents after the January Alaska Airlines near-miss [...]

Why Facebook created its own ‘supreme court’ for judging content – 6 questions answered

Facebook’s quasi-independent Oversight Board on May 5, 2021, upheld the company’s suspension of former President Donald Trump from the platform and Instagram. The decision came four months after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg banned Trump “indefinitely” for his role in [...]

Can large language models replace human participants in some future market research?

April 9, 2024

Do market researchers still need to conduct original research using human participants in their work? Not always, according to a new study. The study found [...]
Content creation holds appeal for laid-off workers seeking flexibility

April 9, 2024

With a compact mirror in one hand and an eyelash curler in the other, Grace Xu told her roughly 300,000 TikTok followers she was likely [...]
AI will not revolutionize business management but it could make it worse

April 9, 2024

It is no exaggeration to say that the democratization of new forms of artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini/Bard (Google) and Copilot (Microsoft), [...]
Apple claims its new AI outperforms GPT-4 on some tasks by including on-screen content and background context

April 9, 2024

A team of AI researchers at Apple claims that their AI system, Reference Resolution As Language Modeling (ReALM), can outperform GPT-4 on some kinds of [...]
Cash-strapped Argentines queue for eyeball scans

April 9, 2024

Argentines eyeing a financial boost are lining up by the thousands to have their irises scanned in exchange for a few crypto tokens as part [...]

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