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AI Is Great at Routine Tasks. Here’s Why Boards Should Resist Using It.

Sridhar PMay 2, 2025May 2, 202501 mins

Generative AI is reshaping industries by automating tasks and augmenting human decision-making. However, as organizations embrace AI, they must remain mindful of its impact on leadership and governance structures. Firms have started experimenting with different ways of integrating AI into their board meetings, including for minute-taking, agenda creation, and meeting documentation. And new AI-powered board-management software is emerging to offer advice…

Kenyan Lawmaker Is Shot Dead by Motorcycle-Riding Assailant

Sridhar PMay 2, 2025May 2, 202503 mins

A Kenyan lawmaker was gunned down on a busy Nairobi street by a motorcycle-riding assassin on Wednesday evening, in what the police described as a “targeted and premeditated” attack. The lawmaker, Charles Were, who was serving a second term in Parliament, was in a vehicle stopped at a traffic light when he was killed, the…

Scientists home in on alternatives to ‘forever chemicals’

Sridhar PMay 2, 2025May 2, 202506 mins

Harmful and persistent “forever chemicals” build up in the environment and in the bodies of animals — including humans. But a new review article lays out a blueprint for replacing those chemicals in certain situations. A research team has compiled more than a decade’s worth of work from multiple labs to detail chemical principles of…

Spotify already has an app ready to test Apple’s new rules

Sridhar PMay 2, 2025May 2, 202503 mins

Spotify says it has submitted an update to its iOS app that would, among other things, let US customers use payment options that aren’t Apple’s, according to a blog post. The update submission follows Wednesday’s major Epic Games v. Apple ruling that forces Apple not to take a cut of payments on non-Apple payment systems…

Wetzel: NCAA deal with sportsbooks looks crass but is sneaky smart

Sridhar PMay 2, 202509 mins

Dan WetzelMay 1, 2025, 07:20 AM ET Close Dan Wetzel is a senior writer focused on investigative reporting, news analysis and feature storytelling. They work with athletes. They work with coaches. They work with law enforcement, sports wagering integrity watchdogs and even the casinos themselves — from Vegas to your iPhone. They lobby politicians, run…

KATSEYE Returns With Bold New Single “Gnarly”

Sridhar PMay 2, 2025May 2, 202504 mins

It’s comeback season for KATSEYE. On Wednesday, April 30, the girl group made their long-awaited return with “Gnarly.” The single, which marks their first piece of new music in eight months, is a bold track that’s sure to be a contender for song of the summer. “Gnarly” sees Daniela, Lara, Manon, Megan, Sophia, and Yoonchae…

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Sridhar PMay 2, 202501 mins

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Friday Briefing: A White House Shake-Up

Sridhar PMay 2, 2025May 2, 202506 mins

Trump removed his national security adviser President Trump announced yesterday that he was removing his national security adviser, Michael Waltz, naming Secretary of State Marco Rubio as his interim replacement. It was the first major personnel overhaul of top White House aides, and the kind of move he had wanted to avoid in his second…

The Scary Implications of U.S. Government Attacks on Medical Journals

Sridhar PMay 2, 2025May 2, 2025014 mins

In April, I decided to make public a leaked letter from the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia to the editor-in-chief of CHEST, a leading pulmonology and critical care journal. I did so because the letter represents an authoritarian threat to science, and I knew it wasn’t an isolated, bizarre incident. It is…

Hidden costs in AI deployment: Why Claude models may be 20-30% more expensive than GPT in enterprise settings

Sridhar PMay 2, 2025May 2, 2025010 mins

It is a well-known fact that different model families can use different tokenizers. However, there has been limited analysis on how the process of “tokenization” itself varies across these tokenizers. Do all tokenizers result in the same number of tokens for a given input text? If not, how different are the generated tokens? How significant…