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  • Editorial
    Editorial

    Calm under pressure

    Back on Jan. 6, my wife and I were in her delivery room, surrounded by about a dozen medical professionals, who seemingly appeared out of thin air, ready to perform emergency surgery.

  • Editorial
    Editorial

    Tax breaks are a short-term win

    It's easy to vilify businesses for taking tax breaks from local governments, even if they are bringing in jobs and investment

  • Shop Talk
    Shop Talk

    The new Vision

    After slowly taking over more responsibilities from founder Laura DiBenedetto for 2.5 years, Julia Becker Collins in December assumed control at Vision Advertising, two months after it moved from Worcester to Westborough.

  • Advice
    Advice

    101: Hire better

    Susan Shalhoub

    Here are some expert tips on creating job ads, screening applicants and interviewing candidates, to help ensure whoever you welcome onboard will be the best fit possible – and save you time as well.

  • Editorial
    Editorial

    Oxford's Russian non-oligarch

    Valentin Gapontsev, the founder and CEO of Oxford laser manufacturer IPG Photonics, sued the U.S. Treasury in December over his listing as a Russian oligarch.

  • Advice
    Advice

    10 Things I Know About ... Retaining staff in the service industry

    Sell a good product. Make sure the product your employee is trying to sell is reputable, this makes her/his job easy.

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    Feds must focus on trade, infrastructure

    James T. Brett

    As the 116th Congress commences this month, it does so with a daunting to-do list. Most urgently, leaders on Capitol Hill must come to an agreement with the president to end the shutdown.

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Has your company increased its use of AI in the last year?
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Although used in technology like Google searches for decades, the buzz around the use of artificial intelligence in business has soared in the last year, largely due to advances from the company OpenAI and its AI system ChatGPT. Companies have explored using AI to automate more processes, although fears around the technology's use are rampant, too. For example, part of the Hollywood writers' strike centered around using AI to develop scripts, and part of the new union contract included guarantees against certain uses of AI in moviemaking and television.