Jeff Wilser

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Making Buildings More Efficient

Large commercial buildings are teeming with data: humidity levels, ventilation rates, the boiler’s water supply, and so on. BrainBox AI’s ARIA is an AI platform that enables users to automate HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air...

By Jeff Wilser

Smarter PDFs

There are an estimated 3 trillion PDFs in existence. To dramatically speed up the reading, summarizing, probing, and querying of these documents, the Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant lets the reader have a real-time conversation with...

By Jeff Wilser

Giving Everyone Creative Vision

It has never been easier to create online content. Videos, images, graphics, marketing copy—all can be made in a blink, few technical skills required, with Canva’s Magic Studio, released in fall 2023. Canva has employed...

By Jeff Wilser

Battling Fake Photos

The image of Taylor Swift supporting Donald Trump? Fake. Kamala Harris in communist garb? AI-generated. Misinformation is now easy to weaponize. That’s why the Content Authenticity Initiative—over 3,700 tech and media companies, including Adobe, TikTok,...

By Jeff Wilser

Optimizing Operating Theaters

Every surgeon has their own way they like to do things. Some like the scalpel on the left, some on the right. Some use silk sutures, some use nylon. Medical assistants often need to scramble...

By Jeff Wilser

Healing Amid Nature

Research has shown that being in nature confers physical health benefits, including lowering blood pressure and boosting the immune system, not to mention mental health help. That’s why California’s Montage Health Ohana campus—a behavioral health...

By Jeff Wilser

Colleges Come to You

Few high school students enjoy applying to college. Niche—the website that lets students rank and review schools—is trying to break down some of the barriers to college entry with its Direct Admissions platform. Instead of...

By Jeff Wilser

Glowing Flora

By day, the petunias look like normal white flowers. In the evening, they emanate a soft glow that looks like moonlight. It feels like magic but is rooted in science: The startup Light Bio spliced...

By Jeff Wilser

Custom Prostate Cancer Treatment

Prostate cancer treatment can be tricky to get right: Over-treatment can bring unnecessary side-effects, while under-treatment risks letting the disease spread. This is why medical software company Artera uses AI, combined with a dataset of...

By Jeff Wilser

Barbecue Without the Hassle

Smoking barbecue typically requires a backyard, over ten hours of supervision, and skill. The Smart Indoor Smoker requires none of these things. GE Profile has pioneered an active smoke filtration system that allows pitmasters to...

By Jeff Wilser

A Better Meat Thermometer

Overcook chicken, and you’ll get sawdust; undercook it, and you’ll get salmonella. The Twin TempSpike thermometer allows for precision cooking—whether grilling, smoking, roasting, or baking—that removes all guesswork. Users can stick the probe in the...

By Jeff Wilser

The Role of Small Businesses in the Climate Fight

Every company has a carbon footprint. And each can help solve our global problem. Here's how big and small actions make a huge difference in the climate fight.

By Jeff Wilser

How Alexander Hamilton Can Help You Get Promoted

'Hamilton viewed the world through a longer lens'

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