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For more than two decades, Google Search has ruled the web. Now ChatGPT and other AI tools pose the kind of disruptive, existential dilemma to Google that Google once posed to the rest of media. In the April Bloomberg Businessweek, Davey Alba and Julia Love investigate whether the reign of Alphabet's relentless $200 billion/year ad machine is finally ending - and whether an Alphabet executive named Liz Reid can forestall that fate. gift link: https://lnkd.in/gFCpFUBY

When dozens of young women discover manipulated photos of themselves on a porn site, they fight back — joining a global battle against deepfakes. Listen to Levittown, wherever you get your podcasts https://lnkd.in/etR5CU4G

A billionaire is risking half of his cryptocurrency fortune to build the first commercial space station. Success could win his startup, Vast Space, a lucrative NASA contract to replace the ISS. Failure could cost him $1 billion https://trib.al/S957W5t

Community colleges have long been meant to be a gateway to the American dream, furnishing the general education courses that make up the first two years of a liberal arts curriculum at a much lower cost than four-year universities. With an associate degree in hand, graduates can transfer to a university and take the advanced courses that earn a bachelor’s degree. And yet, Bloomberg Businessweek reports as part of its special report on Education, fewer than half of students who enroll in community college earn any credential at all within six years. That's according to the research arm of the National Student Clearinghouse, which tracks students for colleges and universities. The Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University found that among students entering community college for the first time from 2007 through 2015, no more than a third ever transferred to a four-year program. Fewer than half of these earned a bachelor’s degree. The Alamo Colleges District in San Antonio may have figured out how to ensure greater success for those who enroll in community college, remapping the path from school to career. https://lnkd.in/eVGh4mRP

Continuing our roll out of Bloomberg News stories on US higher ed at an inflection point, we have an intimate, detailed feature from Robb Mandelbaum on the Texas community college system that may have finally cracked the two-year degree. Although community colleges have long been meant to be a gateway to the American dream for poor and working-class students, it hasn't been a universal success story. Fewer than half of students who enroll in community college earn any credential at all within six years, according to the research arm of the National Student Clearinghouse. The Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College found that among students entering community college for the first time from 2007 through 2015, no more than a third ever transferred to a four-year program. Fewer than half of these earned a bachelor’s degree. Alamo Colleges District, a network of five community colleges around San Antonio, has found some ways to turn that around. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eHTUNN5X #education #highered #communitycollege #texas #college

Rapid expansion made TD Bank a household name, but left it vulnerable to crooks. Christine Dobby explains how TD became America's most convenient bank for money launderers https://trib.al/i5AqQD5

Elon Musk recently said the Starship would head to Mars at the end of 2026 carrying Tesla's Optimus robot. On this week's episode of Elon, Inc., we discuss the feasibility of this plan and what it means for Musk's Mars dream https://trib.al/DQHzcKp

Drones are getting smarter, deadlier and more indispensable, and almost all of them come from China. This Silicon Valley company wants to change that. Drake Bennett has more https://trib.al/XNsvkHS

Korean American grocery chain H Mart has become a culinary and cultural obsession over the past decade, growing into a a billion-dollar grocery empire. Sunny Kim breaks down how America got hooked on the specialty market https://trib.al/dVW48Ac

Though the US has charged crypto entrepreneur Sam Lee with allegedly running a $2 billion Ponzi scheme, he’s denied any wrongdoing and is living in Dubai, launching new crypto products. And he’s not the only one https://trib.al/nmpaCSL