Tesla has reported its biggest decline in quarterly revenue in more than a decade as CEO Elon Musk's political activity weighs on the electric carmaker brand's reputation. Revenue fell to 22.5bn for the April-June quarter from 25.5bn a year earlier, according to its earnings report, which Tesla released after the closing bell on Wall Street. Analysts on average were expecting revenue of 22.74bn, according to data compiled by LSEG. Revenue from car sales declined by 16 percent. Tesla attributed the revenue dip to a decline in vehicle deliveries.

Forbes recently shared an article about the $65 million funding received by Typeface, a generative AI application for enterprise content creation. The startup lets companies upload their existing content such as web pages, blogs, Instagram posts, brand logos and other visual assets (a brand's personalized data set according to the company) and combines it with public data to train Typeface's AI model to generate future content. On the surface, for people who don't have a deep understanding of brand, this likely seems amazing. But with the above brand inputs only, there are HUGE gaps in the creation of MEANINGFUL content. Let's explore some of the myths on which this and other similar types of AI are based that are sending us in the wrong direction. Have you heard the phrase, "bad inputs bad outputs"?

Marketers have tons of data at their disposal. But 80% say they have trouble making data-driven decisions, according to a study from Pecan AI, conducted by Wakefield Research. Worse, 90% of those with AI-powered predictive analytics have trouble with decision-making. Yet 95% of companies now integrate that capability into their marketing strategy, and 44% have done so completely. Why are there so many problems?

During the fall of 2000 I visited the Special Collection room in Green Library at Stanford University, eager to read Stewart Brand's personal journals. I was researching the political and cultural world surrounding three computer science laboratories that were located adjacent to Stanford during the decade during which the technologies that led to the creation of the personal computer industry and the modern Internet emerged. On my initial visit I came away disappointed and it would take almost another two decades before I discovered a missing piece of the puzzle that reframes the early history and impact of Silicon Valley. Although he was not a technologist, Brand, the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog, is an intriguing figure in the history of the modern computing world and the Valley. He was the author of a seminal article in Rolling Stone magazine, "Space War: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums," which had been the first hint a wider non-technical audience had of the emerging digital world.

In year three of a global pandemic, consumers want businesses to be more empathetic. In response, brands are aligning more closely to changing consumer preferences. To deliver a superior customer experience, we see several B2C brands investing in technologies that enable personalization. But, doing this at scale, with millions of consumers, is quite a challenge. Conversational AI helps brands navigate this.

From hippie culture to the first personal computers, Stewart Brand has been key to some of the most groundbreaking movements of the last century. This hour, he reflects on his life and career. Stewart Brand is the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and co-founder of The Long Now Foundation, The Well and Revive & Restore. He is the author of The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT, How Buildings Learn, The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility and II Cybernetic Frontiers. Brand has given many TED talks, including "The Long Now" and "The dawn of de-extinction.

As part of its close embrace network artificial intelligence (AI), AT&T is testing drones in New Jersey to inspect cell sites, and researching the use AI to define network policies.

The demand for an excellent customer experience is increasing as new technologies emerge. Nowadays, it's not enough to have an outstanding piece of software that works seamlessly without a hiccup. Today, if a business wants to stand out, it must also have a personalized, data-driven, and customer-focused approach. So, let's dive deep into consumer-focused technologies based on personal experiences: People all over the world have higher levels of stress and a general sense of uncertainty after the pandemic. Just as Forrester predicted for 2022, customers tend to choose brands that deliver comfort and positive emotions. We think the reason for this is that humans tend to seek general stability and comfort to feel safe and secure and to know what tomorrow holds.

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