Tech companies have always relied on freelancers to keep up with change, but in 2023, the pace accelerated thanks to generative AI—and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. LinkedIn’s latest “Future of Work” report, published in November 2023, suggests that 55 percent of LinkedIn members globally stand to have …
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In August, Amazon announced that it would extend reproductive health care benefits to its full-time, part-time, and hourly employees. This means that more than 1 million Amazon employees in 50 countries beyond the US and Canada, including the UK, Spain, and Belgium, now have access to support for in vitro …
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To write this piece, I ran prompts through ChatGPT and generated a series of interview questions—the majority of which were good enough to pose to my experts. I also used an AI-powered transcribing tool, which saves me countless hours a month. When inspiration ran dry or I found myself drifting …
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At the end of July, entrepreneurs Nils Paar and Gino Taselaar flew to Portugal for Boom, a seven-day festival that bills itself as a “psychedelic global gathering of music, arts, culture and hands-on sustainability.” Both began experimenting with psychedelics in their early twenties, and had attended the biennial event several …
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