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Can Mark Zuckerberg Spend His Way to AI Success?

Meta has lured a string of top researchers from rivals with nine-figure pay packages in an effort to close the gap with AI leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. But splashy hires rarely end up rescuing flailing enterprises, write Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Steven Tian.

Mark Zuckerberg demoing Meta's augmented reality glasses
  • How to Build a Space Station

    Nanoracks, co-founded by Chris Cummins ’89, started as a niche startup that facilitated research on the International Space Station. Now it’s building a space station.

    A rendering of a space station in orbit
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    Are You Ready for AI?

    Of the many technologies that have changed our lives since the invention of the microchip, generative AI may have had the most dramatic debut. ChatGPT is likely the fastest-growing internet service ever, and every major tech company is scrambling to incorporate Large Language Models into their products. We’ve been talking with Yale faculty and alumni about the potential of the technology to both advance and disrupt our society.

    An illustration of a robot greeting an office worker drinking coffee
  • How Could the Lawsuit against Apple Shift the Smartphone Landscape?

    We asked Prof. Fiona Scott Morton, the former chief economist for the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, how a successful suit would change the devices and services available to consumers.

    iPhones on display
  • Is Uber Strangling the Restaurant Business?

    Restauranteurs are reporting increasing difficulty in attracting and retaining servers because apps like Uber and Lyft offer another option for entry-level workers. Yale SOM’s Jiwoong Shin and his co-authors took advantage of the sudden departure and return of ridesharing in Austin, Texas, to understand its effect on restaurants.

    Uber cars lined up at an airport
  • What Have the Bots Learned about Us?

    The emergence of generative AI has opened new possibilities for the mass creation and dissemination of misinformation. Are the major social media platforms ready? We talked to Prof. Tauhid Zaman, who studies how bots manipulate opinion on social networks.

    A closeup of a women's eye with a computer screen reflected in it
  • Is AI a Savior or a Peril—or Both?

    With applications of artificial intelligence spreading from the realm of data science to the apps at your fingertips, a day-long conference at the Yale School of Management considered how to unlock the technology’s positive potential while containing possibilities for misuse, misinformation, and labor-market mayhem.

    A wide angle of an auditorium with speakers on the stage
  • Can Industrial Policy Help Revive Struggling Regions?

    A new paper co-authored by Yale SOM’s Cameron LaPoint looks at an effort in 1980s Japan to narrow economic inequalities between geographic regions, in order to understand the potential impact of the similar U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, enacted in 2022.

    President Joe Biden with a quantum computer during a tour of an IBM facility in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 2022.
  • Assembling an Economy in Space

    A mix of public and private investments are positioning the space economy for a period of growth and innovation, says Sven Eenmaa ’98, director of investment and economic analysis at the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory.

    Astronauts working on the International Space Station
  • Can ChatGPT Accelerate Social Science Research? 

    Yale SOM’s Balázs Kovács and his co-authors spent years designing a computer-based method to measure “typicality.” In a new study, they found that ChatGPT could duplicate their results at a fraction of the cost.

    An illustration of researchers watching a robot write on a blackboard
  • The Israel-Hamas War Reveals the Fundamental Flaws of Social Media

    Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian write that the viral spread of anti-Semitic and Islamophobic content over the last two months has underlined the failure of social media platforms to control misinformation and hate—and the importance of truth in the face of propaganda.

    A man looking at his phone in front of a television showing scenes from the Israel-Hamas war.