Technology & Artificial Intelligence (AI)

🔒 This local creative has developed a productivity tool for professionals

Baton Rouge author, business consultant, podcast host and photographer Jenn Ocken has developed a...

🔒 From Microsoft to Levi’s, here’s a look at companies that are cutting jobs

It’s not even February, and 2024 has already proved to be a difficult year for layoffs. A handful of companies have been making job cuts in recent weeks, bringing uncertainty for workers across industries.

🔒 b1Bank partnering with Virginia-based data analytics company

Baton Rouge-based b1Bank has partnered with a Virginia-based data analytics company that specializes in community banking and finance. 

🔒 The latest tools helping small businesses integrate AI into their operations 

The influx of generative artificial intelligence software is transforming small businesses, with company owners...

🔒 Leadership Power Breakfast looks to the future of Baton Rouge

Each of the speakers at this morning’s Leadership Power Breakfast, hosted by Business Report, stressed the need to focus on Baton Rouge’s future. 

🔒 Meet the small federal agency handling AI regulation 

No technology since nuclear fission will shape our collective future quite like artificial intelligence, so it’s paramount that AI systems are safe, secure, trustworthy and socially responsible.

🔒 Baton Rouge business named a national Best Place to Work

Baton Rouge-based digital creative agency ThreeSixtyEight has been tapped as a Best Place to Work by Ad Age, a leading national marketing and media publication. 

🔒 Sen. Bill Cassidy is co-teaching an LSU course this semester

A seminar course co-taught by Sen. Bill Cassidy is being offered by LSU’s E.J....

🔒 This 2017 tax law is haunting US startups 

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 is hitting some startups' tax bills, thanks to a provision that changes how research and development costs are deducted, Axios reports. 

🔒 Port Fourchon to become home to Louisiana’s first wind turbine

Port Fourchon serves as the land base for multiple offshore oil and gas companies,...