Today, companies can go far beyond reading comments from customers in response to surveys, or transcribing call center interactions, to analyze not just the words but the elusive sentiment and intent behind those words.
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Stu Sjouwerman,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2026
And the days are coming when AI is meaningfully involved in clinical care, beyond just transcribing our own words, and the follow-up recommendation deviates from the standard of care.
And then there was audio of a noisy phone call that Wells’s friends had made to a boat-towing company, reporting that one of the boats was taking in water.
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Cristian Farias,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2026
Nonprofit leaders are reporting alarming burnout rates and more and more organizations are facing financial challenges that have spurred layoffs and, in some cases, closures.
Ever since 1994’s Little Odessa, James Gray has been chronicling the lives of New York’s outer-borough residents in films that crossbreed autobiography with genre.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
21 Sep. 2026
Gerber, a model and the older brother of model and actor Kaia Gerber, had been open about his struggles with mental health and substance abuse, chronicling his journey on Instagram.
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