Some hair stylists, bridal shops, and hardware stores say AI generated “inspo”, taken from platforms like Pinterest, is warping customers' sense of reality — From bridal shops to med-spas to hardware stores, AI-generated photos are warping our sense of reality and hurting small businesses along the way.
China is increasingly pooling resources from the state and private sectors, including startups like Infinigence AI, to accelerate adoption of AI data centers — Beijing is pooling resources from the private and state sectors to accelerate adoption of the fast-developing technology
Sources: Shein's 2024 sales were up 19% YoY to $38B, far below the forecasts made in 2023; some investors push Shein to cut pre-IPO valuation from $66B to ~$30B — Competition from Temu adds to pressure on fast-fashion group's valuation as it seeks approval for UK listing
Apple abandons the budget phone market with the iPhone 16e; sources: the M4 MacBook Air may launch in March and Apple may eventually meld the modem and main CPU — Last week, Apple introduced the long-awaited successor to the iPhone SE: the iPhone 16e. In doing so, it all but abandoned the budget smartphone market.
Some US school districts are adopting Sonny, an AI “wellbeing companion,” to provide mental health support to students when there aren't enough counselors — Is a human-AI texting service the future of mental-health care for students? — Teens around the country are confiding …
A look at India's Svamitva Scheme, which has digitally mapped out landholdings using drones in 300K+ villages as of January 2025, as concerns mount over errors — The Svamitva scheme seeks to use drones to map out landholdings in inhabited rural areas. But so far, work has been opaque and riddled with errors.
Financial Times : Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid weste...
