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1 week ago | fastcompanyme.com | Aytekin Tank

As a proud Gen Xer, I remember that most of my college buddies and I had similar aspirations: land a full-time job, hope the hours weren’t too brutal, pay off our loans, maybe buy a car and, one day, a home. Now, as the CEO of a company with a growing Gen Z employee base, I’ve found it fascinating to see how different their outlook is. This generation isn’t interested in hustle culture if it doesn’t lead to something meaningful—or sometimes, even if it does.

1 week ago | fastcompanyme.com | Chris Stokel-Walker

In a new study, German researchers tested 14 large language models (LLMs) of various sizes from leading developers such as Meta, Alibaba, and others. Each model answered 1,000 difficult academic questions spanning topics from world history to advanced mathematics. The tests ran on a powerful, energy-intensive NVIDIA A100 GPU, using a specialized framework to precisely measure electricity consumption per answer.

2 weeks ago | fastcompanyme.com | Mark Sullivan

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here. Apple said at its WWDC developer conference Monday that the much-hyped Apple Intelligence features it announced at last year’s event are still not ready to ship—and likely won’t be until 2026. Now, the company is living with a media narrative that it’s failed, fallen behind, stuck in neutral, or in retreat on AI.

2 weeks ago | fastcompanyme.com | Steven Melendez

Many developers find that AI programming assistants have made writing code easier than ever. But maintaining the infrastructure that actually runs that code remains a challenge, requiring engineers to have detailed knowledge of complex cloud systems and how their companies use them. A startup called Antimetal is working to harness AI to guide engineers through resolving issues with software infrastructure in much the same way existing tools help them write code.

2 weeks ago | fastcompanyme.com | Jesus Diaz |Jesus Diaz

It wasn’t until the iPhone and touchscreens that Raskin’s idea materialized thanks to apps that turned to the phone into a “specialize device” for each task. Later, the iPad became the ultimate expression of that powerful idea. It embodied Raskin’s core philosophy: an immersive device focused and modal, that could transform instantly into the tool you needed—a sketchpad, a typewriter, a comic book reader, a video editor. Billions of people around the planet instantly got it.