Description: Nordstrom Inc. is closing all of its Canadian stores and cutting 2,500 jobs as it winds down operations in the country.
Source: BNNBloomberg.ca – video report
Date: Mar 02, 2023
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Description: Experts are split about how much control people will retain over essential decision-making as digital systems and AI spread. They agree that powerful corporate and government authorities will expand the role of AI in people’s daily lives in useful ways. But many worry these systems will diminish individuals’ ability to control their choices
Source: Pewresearch.org
Date: Feb 24, 2023
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Description: Job cuts are rising at some of the biggest U.S. companies, but others are still scrambling to hire workers, the result of wild swings in consumer priorities since the Covid pandemic began three years ago.
Source: CNBC.com – video reports
Date: Feb 21, 2023
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Description: Software that can write passages of text or draw pictures that look like a human created them has kicked off a gold rush in the technology industry. Companies like Microsoft and Google are fighting to integrate cutting-edge AI into their search engines, as billion-dollar competitors such as OpenAI and Stable Diffusion race ahead and release their software to the public.
Source: CNBC.com – video report
Date: Feb 23, 2023
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/23/nvidias-a100-is-the-10000-chip-powering-the-race-for-ai-.html
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Description: Of Microsoft’s $198 billion in revenues last year, only about 6% came from advertising. Could a revamped Bing help build out this revenue stream? It’s hard to imagine, but not impossible. Here are five charts that look at Microsoft’s latest ad moves.
Source: Insiderintelligence.com
Date: Feb 16, 2023
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Description: A slowed economy may be stressing consumers out about some kinds of discretionary shopping, but not at Etsy. The online marketplace posted results that beat expectations, including record revenue. And in a twist that shows how the Brooklyn-based company continues to broaden its appeal beyond pandemic masks and Christmas ornaments, it says a quarter of its customers are now men.
Source: MediaPost.com
Date: Feb 23, 2023
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Description: After a steep and rapid climb in prices, Canada’s inflation rate is expected to fall significantly this year, giving comfort to economists worried about untamed price growth but little relief to Canadians who have fallen behind.
Source: BNNBloomberg.ca – video report
Date: Feb 23, 2023
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Description: Here’s my hot take on ChatGPT and other AI-assisted writing and editing tools: I know they work, mostly because no one has been able to notice when I am (or when I am not) using them (like right now?). And, if that isn’t the power of helping to create better work (with what feels like a hint of magic), well… I don’t know what is.
Source: SixPixels.com
Date: Feb 23, 2023
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Description: The fitness company is now a year into an aggressive turnaround plan under CEO Barry McCarthy that has altered the company’s identity.
Source: CNBC.com
Date: Feb 19, 2023
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/19/peloton-rise-fall-attempted-comeback.html
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Description: For consumers, whose spending power has already been cut by inflation at multi-decade highs, they are likely to add to concerns about strained household budgets and weakened economies.
Source: CNBC.com
Date: Feb 16, 2023
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