Technology & Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Baton Rouge Business Report

🔒 Security measures aren’t doing enough to deter employees from sharing unauthorized information

Security measures are not stopping employees from engaging in insider computer abuse, according to a new study authored by an LSU business professor.

🔒 Meta and Microsoft are teaming up on AI tools for businesses

Microsoft is partnering with Facebook parent company Meta to make artificial intelligence software available to businesses, the tech giants announced today.

🔒 Is ‘body doubling’ the answer to stopping procrastination on projects?

A new work hack, involving connecting online with others to hold each other accountable for getting tasks done, is gaining popularity and businesses are jumping in to make money off it, The Wall Street Journal reports.

🔒 LSU researcher looks to bolster offshore rigs’ durability against hurricanes

LSU civil and environmental engineering associate professor Chao Sun is researching how to create resilient offshore energy infrastructure—oil and gas rigs as well as pipelines—which can withstand hurricanes and other extreme weather.

🔒 Here’s why Capital Region business owners should consider joining Threads

As Twitter tries to figure out what it wants to be following the Elon Musk acquisition, competing microblogging platforms have emerged, though most have so far struggled to gain much traction.

🔒 LSU names director of innovation and technology commercialization

LSU today announced that technology licensing and commercialization veteran Spencer Rogers has been named director of the school’s Office of Innovation and Technology Commercialization.

🔒 The Baton Rouge business behind the branded walls in restaurants all over town

Lately, Lettermans President and CEO Steven Perret finds himself asking more of his clients the following question: If your walls could talk, what would they say?

🔒 How one Baton Rouge lobbyist is harnessing AI

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how business owners and workers do their job as different industries experiment to see how the technology can be applied to their fields.

🔒 Technology vendors increasingly offering outcome-based pricing models

A growing number of technology providers are pricing their products and services based on...

🔒 Bill, if signed, will give the public online access to state, local government records

Louisiana could soon get a new website that gives the public in-depth access to a trove of government finance records from every agency, board, commission, department and courthouse at the state and local government level.