By Drake Bennett January 27, 2023 at 7:00 AM EST A fixation with ChatGPT emerged just as educators were grappling with more urgent questions. But first… Decent grades When professors at the University of Minnesota Law School asked ChatGPT to take several of their exams, the chatbot earned on average a C+. ChatGPT is apparently better-suited to business school, earning a […]
Lynn Petrak Senior Editor YouGov, an international data and analytics group that regularly conducts polls on a range of topics, is out with its latest list of the most popular grocers in the United States. The research firm surveyed consumers during the fourth quarter of 2022. What does “popular” mean in this context? YouGov bases that […]
Scott Souza,Patch Staff Posted Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 12:18 pm ET PEABODY, MA — A final phase of construction and redevelopment will usher in more high-profile dining and retail operators at the Northshore Mall in 2023. Simon Property Group, which operates the shopping center, said Phase 2 of The Promenade redevelopment has begun with Arhuas, […]
By Greg Ryan – Senior Reporter, Boston Business Journal Jan 23, 2023 Trammell Crow Co. has put forward one of the largest development proposals in Boston in the past year: Three new life sciences buildings, as well as 200 residential units — all of them income-restricted — in Brighton. The Dallas-based CBRE Group Inc. (NYSE: CBRE) subsidiary and […]
By Rowan Walrath – Life Sciences Reporter, Boston Business Journal Jan 23, 2023 Moderna Inc. is hiring another 2,000 employees this year, a move that would massively grow its headcount — and most of them will be in Massachusetts. The Cambridge-based company (Nasdaq: MRNA) currently employs around 4,000 people globally, CEO Stephane Bancel told investors at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare […]
By Catherine Carlock and Emma Platoff Globe Staff,Updated January 18, 2023, 1:18 p.m In a bid to bring rent control back to Boston for the first time in three decades, Mayor Michelle Wu is readying a proposal that would limit allowable rent increases to 10 percent per year. The plan, which was floated Tuesday to an […]
The sharp decline in office building values is likely to become a growing problem for the budgets of cities, schools and other jurisdictions that depend heavily on property taxes from these building owners. Most municipal budgets haven’t suffered much yet. For a variety of reasons, declines in property values typically take years before they are […]
After about a decade in the role, Emily Reichert has left her role at the helm of one of the largest climate-tech startup incubators in North America. Reichert confirmed on Thursday she stepped down as CEO of Somerville-based Greentown Labs. Her last day was Dec. 5. Greentown Labs published the news on its website Monday, but […]
Rent control advocates in Boston are once again pushing for new rent control laws. Of course they are. Apartment rents rose 17 percent in Boston over the last year, on average, including concessions. There’s no relief in the short term either. Market observers predict rents are likely to keep rising sharply through the rest of the […]
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech executives gathered at a conference hall in Nashville to boast about one of their company’s signature products: software that uses a mysterious algorithm […]
