BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Ask any organization whether they invest in coaching, and you’ll almost certainly get a yes. It’s a stated priority, a line item in leadership development budgets, a topic in management training. And yet, when researchers go to measure how managers perform across a range of their responsibilities, coaching keeps…
Episode Description: Arielle and Karissa are reunited after a few weeks apart, covering a wide range of solutions this episode: a new telescope that survived two White House cancellation attempts, the decade-long trial that settles the statin-and-dementia debate once and for all, and a biodegradable balloon that took three years and hundreds of failed experiments…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A decade-long clinical trial of nearly 10,000 adults aged 70 and over has found that daily statins reduce the risk of a first major cardiac event by 30 percent, with no significant increase in serious side effects. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and…
OpenAI’s bots have allegedly been behaving badly again: a swarm of rogue agents created by the company reportedly took over an obscure German website and turned it into a messaging forum to communicate. The incident, which was discovered by a team of AI researchers and first reported by Reuters, is the second known OpenAI breach…
Saskatchewan’s first tech incubator, Co.Labs, is branching out from its tech-exclusive programming to offer training in AI adoption for small- and medium-sized businesses. Co.Labs executive director Jonathan Lipoth announced the branch-out earlier this week in a LinkedIn post, where he told followers that Co.Labs was looking to “help non-tech companies use AI like a tech…
As work conditions go, the transition from licensed taxi cabs to the rideshare model represented a significant step backwards for drivers in the US. Stable wage jobs became “side gigs,” while human managers were replaced by labyrinthine algorithms. And forget fleet maintenance — under the new model, disenfranchised drivers were now responsible for their own…
While American tech billionaires fret over the capabilities of Chinese AI, one national security advisor has a brilliant idea to flatten the competition: simply bomb their data centers to smithereens. In a new report titled “Superpowers and AGI,” former Obama-era national security official Jacob Stokes calls for United States to begin preparing readiness drills in…
OpenAI is facing 30 new lawsuits from victims of the devastating school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, who accuse the company of providing “substantial assistance and encouragement” to the shooter and failing to alert police about her alarming ChatGPT interactions during the run-up to the mass killing. The AI company’s legal peril is growing:…
A Regina company using AI to help manage public assets like roads, municipal buildings, and utility systems is receiving nearly $1 million in federal funding to scale its business. The news: On Thursday, Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan) announced $980,000 in funding for ASI Engineering, a Regina engineering consultancy that helps organizations assess and maintain…
On Thursday, three major chatbots — ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok — all went down without warning. The simultaneous outage of three flagship from AI systems from three different providers was bizarre. But, in an exceedingly peculiar information gap, we still don’t know why models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI respectively suffered outages at the same…
