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- Target can’t get its footing after its DEI program demise and a 40-day boycott against the retailer. Foot traffic at stores is down for the eighth consecutive week
For the week that began March 17, foot traffic fell 5.7% YoY for Target, according to data from Placer.ai.
- Accenture’s top HR chief says the company’s AI tool has helped employees provide meaningful feedback
Leveraging AI has made it easier for employees at Accenture to provide more constructive feedback to their colleagues.
- A recruiter agreed to interview what seemed like a desperate job candidate. Then she realized it was a deepfake— ‘It was very creepy’
Their eye and mouth movements appeared unnatural and not in sync with their speaking, and the edges of their face were distorted.
- NASA astronauts say they’d fly the Boeing craft again: ‘I’d get on in a heartbeat’
The astronauts plan to meet with Boeing to discuss the Starliner's failures, but still say it has "the most capability" of any available craft.
- Jerome Lambert took an unlikely career step down from Richemont’s CEO to leading one of its 29 brands—he said he just wanted to return to ‘the job I loved’
Jerome Lambert went from being Richemont Group's CEO, to its COO and then, CEO of its Jaeger-LeCoultre Maison—all in a span of six months.
Technology
- The Download: brain-computer interfaces, and teaching an AI model to give therapy
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Brain-computer interfaces face a critical test Brain computer interfaces (BCIs) are electrodes put in paralyzed people’s brains so they can use imagined movements to send commands from their neurons through a wire, or…
- Tuesday Telescope: A close-up of the magical camera at the end of a robotic arm
Wait, the Daily Telescope is back? Sort of.
- MCP: The new “USB-C for AI” that’s bringing fierce rivals together
Model context protocol standardizes how AI uses data sources, supported by OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Brain-computer interfaces face a critical test
Tech companies are always trying out new ways for people to interact with computers—consider efforts like Google Glass, the Apple Watch, and Amazon’s Alexa. You’ve probably used at least one. But the most radical option has been tried by fewer than 100 people on Earth—those who have lived for months or years with implanted brain-computer…
- How do you teach an AI model to give therapy?
On March 27, the results of the first clinical trial for a generative AI therapy bot were published, and they showed that people in the trial who had depression or anxiety or were at risk for eating disorders benefited from chatting with the bot. I was surprised by those results, which you can read about…
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