Business News

Just how many employees are using ChatGPT for work? 

Many workers across the U.S. are turning to ChatGPT to help with basic tasks like email drafting, summarizing documents and preliminary research, a Reuters/Ipsos poll of about 2,600 workers found, despite fears that have led employers such as Microsoft and Google to curb its use.

Baton Rouge steps onto the global stage for its carbon capture expertise 

Baton Rouge is emerging as a key hub for research and deployment of carbon...

Check out downtown’s new pizza spot, where everything is square 

Getting in and out of the few crowded places to eat before lunch break...

Baton Rouge tech startup partners with BRCC to improve employment outcomes 

Baton Rouge startup Directed Analytics announced this week it has partnered Baton Rouge Community College’s Program for Successful Employment to help students with autism and intellectual disabilities.

‘LaPolitics’ Q&A: PAR and CABL have a different kind of election agenda 

LaPolitics: With RESET, your nonprofit policy campaign that you partner with others on, there’s...

This bill might give small businesses a broadband boost 

Louisiana’s U.S. Sen. John Kennedy and New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen this week authored a bill to improve access to high-speed internet in rural areas nationwide through the Small Business Administration. 

Downtown Baton Rouge’s new parking system nears completion

East Baton Rouge Parish is close to fully implementing its new system for downtown Baton Rouge, though a few tweaks are pending before its official launch. 

Federal government sending $1.2B to carbon capture projects in Louisiana, Texas

The Energy Department announced this morning it is awarding up to $1.2 billion to two projects in Louisiana and Texas to directly remove carbon dioxide from the air in what officials are calling the largest investment in “engineered carbon removal” in history. 

PAR: Louisiana appeals courts refusing to cooperate with Legislature’s workload study

Four of Louisiana’s five courts of appeal—though not the one based in Baton Rouge—are...

See the updated list of who qualified to run for state offices representing the Capital Region 

Today is the last day of qualifying for election to state office this year.  Here...