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President Trump recently signed Executive Order 14415, “Securing America’s Defense Supply Chains and Ensuring Domestic Acquisition of Critical Materials”, which states that “the United States must secure its supply chains against physical, cyber, and economic subversion”, and that finished equipment and “the critical materials and components necessary to manufacture, maintain, sustain, and repair that equipment, are sourced domestically or from allied nations.” Among other provisions, the Executive Order states that the Department of War will, with the help of the defense industrial base, engage in supply chain mapping and illumination that will “map national security vulnerabilities as they relate to the sourcing of key raw materials or other links in the supply chain, using any tools and technologies to include artificial intelligence to assist in doing so.”

With another sweltering summer pushing office thermostats to their limits, a new workplace debate is heating up: Should employees be allowed to wear shorts to work? Instagram's boss, Adam Mosseri, recently weighed in that he doesn't see the problem.

"I'm pro. But not everyone can pull them off, and not all shorts are created equal," Mosseri said on a recent episode of the Throwing Fits podcast. "I'm definitely a pro. When it hits, it hits. But, when it misses…"

While Silicon Valley has always been known for its more casual workplace culture—with some startups even encouraging people to forgo shoes—Mosseri's comments come as employers continue to wrestle with evolving workplace expectations, particularly among younger workers who increasingly view self-expression as compatible with professionalism. 

While not exclusively an AI certification, the Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) credential from INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) is absolutely critical for anyone looking to lead or manage AI initiatives. Why? Because AI, at its core, is about leveraging data to make better decisions. CAP certifies your ability to frame business and analytics problems, manage data, build models, deploy and maintain models, and communicate results effectively. It’s about the full lifecycle of an analytics project, of which AI is a significant component.

Ambient AI scribes have typically been marketed as tools to reduce providers’ administrative burden by speeding up the clinical documentation process. They may also be useful in boosting health system revenues.

Multiple studies show that scribe usage is leading to more billing codes being included in clinical notes, which in turn leads to higher reimbursement from insurers and higher revenues for hospitals. That may be a slight boon for health systems, experts said. But, they cautioned that it could also increase overall medical costs and insurance premiums, particularly when scribes are used in inpatient settings, which involve billing for much higher-cost services. Whether they also result in improvements in care is unclear.

Air travel has become agony for many travelers: enduring endless lines, arguing about luggage with harried airline employees, running for flights because of security delays. The list goes on.

During the recent U.S. government shutdowns, lines often extended around and outside terminals, in scenes that still haunt travelers.

But overwhelmed U.S. airports and airlines are working to ease some of the worst pinch points: passenger and luggage screening. New, albeit limited, programs are using tools like biometric technology and remote check-in facilities to get passengers, and their bags, to their destinations more efficiently.