Technology & Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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 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.

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. 

Pennington Biomedical Research Center is in talks with a firm based in Belgium that is considering establishing a small domestic presence at the center, Executive Director John Kirwan says. 

Slack has become one of the most common workplace tools over the past few...

As states rush to get a handle on fast-evolving artificial intelligence technology, lawmakers are  often focusing first on their own state governments before imposing restrictions on the private sector.

Gage Telephone Systems, a Baton Rouge-based managed technology service provider, is joining other technology companies in incorporating AI systems into their services, specifically as it relates to detecting potentially malicious activity involving information technology. 

Right now, there seems to be more questions than answers about the evolving role of artificial intelligence in Louisiana politics and government relations. 

Regardless of how Twitter's future as X unfolds, the move does offer lessons for leaders considering their own rebrand.

Companies hope generative artificial intelligence will transform their accounting and finance departments, areas that are full of repetitive tasks that are perfect for the kind of automation AI might be able to deliver.