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Lisa Su, chairwoman and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), delivers the opening keynote speech at Computex 2024, Taiwan’s premier tech expo, in Taipei on June 3, 2024. (Photo by I-Hwa CHENG / AFP) (Photo by I-HWA CHENG/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesAmid all of the ruckus around this year’s commencement, I was pleased to be able to attend the graduation address of Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, who is herself part of the MIT community, and had some good things to say, about humanity, about AI, and about the future.Su talked about her arrival at MIT in…
There is a scene in The Devil Wears Prada 2 where legendary fashion editor Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep, is walking alone through Milan’s fashion district. Her influence has been built on instinct and staying ahead of the culture. But in an industry increasingly shaped by social media, younger voices, and constant reinvention, she begins quietly questioning her own relevance. Arriving back at the hotel, she asks her husband, Stuart, when a person knows it’s time to step aside. “You’ll know when it’s time,” he says. “You’ll just know it.” It’s one of the most common mantras about work,…
Rishi Katdare, Senior Leader in Networking and Edge for Global Financial Services at Amazon Web Services.When I talk with leaders about AI governance, the conversation still centers on model behavior. Hallucinations, bias, data leakage, safety testing and regulatory exposure all matter. Yet as AI systems act across the enterprise, another question becomes harder to avoid. Who or what acted, under whose authority, against which system, and how long will the proof remain defensible?The next consequential AI failure may not come from a model producing an unreliable answer. It may come from an enterprise being unable to prove that an AI-enabled…
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Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. Journalism might not be the world’s single most important job, but it does have one unique distinction: 100% of journalists are interested in it. So it’s no surprise that the profession is the subject of an outsize percentage of articles about the myriad ways AI is changing our world. I do admit, however, to be taken aback by how much of that coverage involves tales of journalists being embarrassed by entirely avoidable AI-fueled gaffes. On May 19, for example, Benjamin Mullin of The New York Times reported that The Future…
Destiny 2 players continue to mourn the upcoming closure of the game’s live service, which will see no more updates after its June 9 additions. Now, after revealing the contents of that final update, it’s become a bittersweet moment for fans, as it just sounds so damn good.There are more pieces of the puzzle yet to be shared, but in an enormous article, Bungie laid out much of the content coming with the update, which I believe is 1) part of what was meant to come before the closure announcement after no updates to the game in six months, 2)…
Shares in Dell Technologies Inc (NYSE: DELL) are on fire today after the legacy PC maker and AI server manufacturer announced Q1 results that blew past all expectations. And yes, AI is the driving factor behind Dell’s stellar quarter. Here’s what you need to know. Dell reports 757% year over year growth in AI server revenue On Thursday after the closing bell, Dell reported results for its first quarter of fiscal 2027, which ended on May 1. The results were nothing short of remarkable. For Q1 2027, Dell reported 88% year-over-year revenue growth for the quarter, which totaled $43.8 billion—a…
The scientists looking at the strangely colored animal.Provided by Andrej A. GAJIĆThe deep sea is often imagined as a place where color does not matter. After all, sunlight fades quickly with as you plunge down into the depths, leaving much of the ocean in dim blues and eventually darkness. But for the animals living there, color can still mean the difference between staying hidden and being seen. Recently, researchers examining a rarely encountered deep-sea predator discovered something unexpected: a sevengill shark whose unusual coloration may have come with a serious energetic cost. That single individual is now helping scientists rethink…
Saudi Arabia has halted construction on The Line, the over-hyped megacity that was supposed to slice through the sand like a mirrored sword, until 2030—LOL!—after multiple delays and downsizings. Anyone with two functioning eyes and three ounces of brain tissue could have predicted this spectacular crash. The concept blatantly defied basic physics and economics. It was a sci-fi fever dream doomed the second it left the rendering farm. Rendering ca. 2024. [Image: Neom] The Line began as a supernova of corporate promotion. In 2021, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman officially launched the enterprise as the utopian cornerstone of Vision 2030, a $500…
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes during an engine-firing test on Thursday, May 28, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (@JConcilus via AP)Associated PressA rocket being tested by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin dramatically exploded on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday night. It comes just days after NASA awarded Blue Origin multiple contracts to launch payloads to the lunar surface in support of NASA’s moonbase program as the space agency attempts to create a permanent lunar base.The explosion occurred at 9 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 28, during a static test fire of Blue Origin’s New Glenn…