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On episode 828 of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is celebrating Good Friday by talking with Gaia Dynamics co-founder and CEO Emil Stefanutti to talk about a tool that couldn’t have come at a better time.  With tariff turmoil causing shippers and customs brokers to scramble, Gaia has launched an AI solution for tariffs and product classifications. We’ll find out how it works and how it can save you money in a high-tariff environment. Glid is building the industry’s first autonomous road-to-rail solution. We’ll meet founder and CEO Kevin Damoa to find out how they’re getting autonomy on track. Plus, DOT…

In January, as business and government leaders descended on Davos, Switzerland, for this year’s meeting of the World Economic Forum, the prevailing wisdom was that American tech giants were winning the race for dominance in artificial intelligence while China, and indeed the whole of Asia, lagged behind. Among the assembled cognoscenti, the outlook for China’s AI companies ranged from bleak to downright dismissive. The share prices of America’s “Magnificent Seven” hovered at all-time highs while Chinese tech stocks languished, dragged down by perceptions that Beijing’s heavy-handed regulation was strangling innovation. Meanwhile, Japan and South Korea weren’t generally considered leaders in…

The jungles of Johor, the Malaysian state across the Johor Strait from Singapore, were first cleared in the 1840s by Chinese clans from Singapore seeking more space to grow black pepper. In the next century, under British rule, those pepper farms gave way to vast plantations of rubber and oil palm trees. On many of those same sites today, Johor is cultivating a new kind of cash crop: data centers meant to feed the world’s voracious appetite for artificial intelligence. Johor’s data center boom, like the shift to growing pepper, is partly a function of scarcity in Singapore. The tiny…

Good morning! Checkr cofounder and CEO Daniel Yanisse wants his employees to use AI. And to help them along, he’s decided to pick up the check on however they choose to experiment with the new technology. All of the background check company’s more than 750 employees have the ability to test AI tools at their own leisure, and expense the costs. Yanisse tells Fortune workers can spend up to $300 per month, although there’s no official limit. So far, he says employees have used and expensed AI tools like Cursor for code testing, and Replit and Lovable for app building.…

The Coramino Fund, an investment arm from the tequila brand co-founded by comedian Kevin Hart, is now accepting applications for its latest round of $10,000 grants. Grantees will also receive AI training to help address the divide that exists between larger businesses and smaller operations run by people from marginalized communities. The three-year-old Coramino Fund, an investment arm from Kevin Hart and Juan Domingo Beckmann’s Gran Coramino Tequila, announced Thursday that applications are now open for its latest round of grants aimed at entrepreneurs and small businesses from under-resourced communities. As part of the deal, grantees will receive $10,000 to…

SoundHound AI, Domo, Plug Power, Corcept, and 8×8 Shares Are Falling, What You Need To Know A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled a cautious stance on future monetary policy decisions during a speech in Chicago, emphasizing that trade tariffs could add upward pressure to inflation in the short term and complicate the Fed’s efforts to stabilize the economy. He warned that such trade measures are “likely to move us further away from our goals,” referring to the Fed’s dual mandate of price stability and maximum employment. The comments did little…

This story was originally published on Social Media Today. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Social Media Today newsletter. Creating passable video content via AI is becoming more viable, which, given the popularity of video across all social apps, could be a massive help for digital marketers. Though it does come with some risks. Today, Google has announced expanded access to its Veo 2 AI video generation model, which can generate 8 second clips from text prompts. As you can see in these examples, Veo 2 outputs short video clips from simple descriptions, which you…

OpenAI says that it deployed a new system to monitor its latest AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, for prompts related to biological and chemical threats. The system aims to prevent the models from offering advice that could instruct someone on carrying out potentially harmful attacks, according to OpenAI’s safety report. O3 and o4-mini represent a meaningful capability increase over OpenAI’s previous models, the company says, and thus pose new risks in the hands of bad actors. According to OpenAI’s internal benchmarks, o3 is more skilled at answering questions around creating certain types of biological threats in particular. For this…

Google on Wednesday said it suspended 39.2 million advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024 — more than triple the number from the previous year — in its latest crackdown on ad fraud. By leveraging large language models (LLMs) and using signals such as business impersonation and illegitimate payment details, the search giant said it could suspend a “vast majority” of ad accounts before they ever served an ad. Last year, Google launched over 50 LLM enhancements to improve its safety enforcement mechanisms across all its platforms. “While these AI models are very, very important to us and have delivered…

Good morning! In a pre-AI world, consulting firms would grapple with creatively building teams for projects. During what Kimberly Jones, PwC’s managing director of talent strategy and people experience, jokingly calls “the olden days,” employees would typically pick people they knew to join them for certain work. But now, with the firm relying on AI to help upskill and track the skills of its hundreds of thousands of employees, workers at PwC are taking a different approach and selecting teammates based on the expertise needed for the project–whether they’ve worked with them before or not. This kind of collaboration is…