In a recent Forbes blog post, Bernard Marr explains why ChatGPT is a transformative tool due to its versatility in applications ranging from content creation to customer service, making it a cost-effective solution for many businesses.

From building more efficient greenhouses to improving wildfire management, Baskin Engineering professors are leading three major projects to address climate crisis issues with funding from UCSC’s newly launched Center for Coastal Climate Resilience. 

Future Motion, makers of Onewheel, is thrilled to announce Onewheel's premier racing event, the Race for the Rail, returns to the national spotlight on ESPN 2.

Compensation for AI jobs at Netflix next level Big Dipper. Hold on to your teeth. The comp for this ride ranges from a whopping $390,000 to a jaw-dropping $900,000.

NextTalks is making a grand re-entry! The launch event is nothing short of spectacular, featuring the monumental technological leap that's currently knocking on humanity's door: Generative Artificial Intelligence aka GenAI, or as yester-week tech enthusiasts call it: ChatGPT.

Exploring various population projections and economic trends, a combination of reports highlights California's potential future challenges in population stagnation and aging, with a particular focus on Santa Cruz County's workforce development and its reliance on improvements in job quality, housing, and infrastructure.

Big news on the bioscience block: RealSeq Biosciences, Inc., a Santa Cruz company harnessing the power of RNA fragmentomics for real-time disease diagnostics, has just announced the successful completion of a rather buoyant seed funding round.

A band of UCSC students, who whipped up a bus tracking app called SlugLoop, have catapulted their way into the top 10 of the Google Solutions Challenge. Their alliance was formed in the crucible of the CruzHacks hackathon.

David Roberto from Human Interest emphasizes the importance of understanding the current retirement landscape, including the Secure Act, which aids small businesses in helping their employees prepare for retirement. This is crucial as one in four Americans lacks retirement savings.

Ladies and gents, we've hit the payload! That hot-off-the-presses wisdom nugget from our dear friend Michael Stebbins has finally landed: The Backward Entrepreneur.

We all know about the stellar companies that have achieved orbital status: Joby Aviation, Jane Technologies, Paystand, OneWheel, Cruz Foam, FullPower, Climatize, and 100+ other companies. But what about the new startups as of 2023? One of these could be the next big Santa Cruz company.

Data from the McKinsey Global Institute indicates that current technologies, including generative AI, could automate 60-70% of tasks performed by employees today.

2023 is shaping up as a remarkable year for female-founded startups, with $24 billion raised in the first half, but fundraising remains challenging for all-women teams who secured just 1.6% of the total venture capital.

The International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI) and Amazon Web Services (AWS), invite global climate tech startups to bring their most daring and innovative ideas to the program.

As Santa Cruz surfs the post-Covid recovery wave, we're still wiping out on some gnarly issues. The population's getting thinner (not their ear and nose hair though!), and our housing situation is scarier than a monster Mavericks' wave!

NASA last month reported that they were cancelling the X-57 project. What is the NASA’s X-57 Maxwell project? And why is it important?

The Global Utility Billing Software Market is projected to see substantial growth from 2023 to 2030, with Paystand as a standout leader in this burgeoning market.

Santa Cruz County Bank announced its unaudited earnings for Q2 2023. The bank reported a net income of $8.3 million for the quarter, marking a 31% increase from the same period in the previous year, but a 6% decrease from the prior quarter.

Following her impressive victory at the 2022 Startup Challenge Monterey Bay, Emily Lippe propelled her startup Miss Lippe’s Dumpling Party into a growth trajectory soaring by 300%. Her venture, Miss Lippe's, is a dumpling business dedicated to celebrating community and mouth-watering cuisine.

The inaugural Monterey Bay Tech Meetup will feature two local speakers: Matt Cool, Community and Program Manager at Mozilla and Pat Cool, Developer/Software Architect at TASi Gas Flow.