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Kansas City Business Journal reporter Grace Mayer is leaving the business newspaper. Mayer covers Kansas City-area technology, health care and architecture and engineering. Before joining KCBJ in October 2023, she covered tech and retail at Business Insider and labor at The Chronicle of Higher Education, where she won the publication’s David W. Miller Award for YoungContinueContinue reading “KC Biz Journal reporter Mayer is departing”

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is preventing most users from generating or editing any images after a global backlash that erupted after it started spewing sexualized deepfakes of people.The chatbot, which is accessed through Musk’s social media platform X, has in the past few weeks been granting a wave of what researchers say are maliciousContinueContinue reading “Musk’s Grok chatbot is now restricting image generation after wave of sexualized deepfakes”

Grok’s digital undressing scandal is horrifying. In recent days, countless women, including the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, have found AI-generated and nonconsensual sexual images of themselves propagating across the web. According to one analysis, Grok was, at least as of early January, generating thousands of sexually suggestive, or undressed, images of peopleContinueContinue reading “The U.S. government is punting on Grok’s undressing issue”

A viral crowd-funding campaign that has raised over $1.4 million and counting for Renee Good has been verified authentic, a spokesperson for GoFundMe told Fast Company.  On Wednesday, January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot Good in Minneapolis. The 37-year-old woman was killed while turning her vehicle away from the officer—asContinueContinue reading “GoFundMe confirms that a $1.4 million fundraising campaign for Renee Nicole Good is verified”

While individuals might return feeling refreshed, organizations as a whole can lose focus. source https://hbr.org/2026/01/regaining-momentum-after-a-holiday-break