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After ChatGPT came out in 2022, the marketing team at Reckitt Benckiser, which makes Lysol and Mucinex, was convinced that new artificial intelligence technology could help its business. But the team was uncertain how, so it turned to Boston Consulting Group for help.Reckitt’s request was one of hundreds that Boston Consulting Group received last year. It now earns a fifth of its revenue — from zero just two years ago — through work related to AI.“There’s a genuine thirst to figure out what are the implications for their businesses,” said Vladimir Lukic, Boston Consulting Group’s managing director for technology.The next…

The notes dangle like receipts from mirrors, on bed frames, and in tiny journals with gold ribbons for spines. One could write a book on Anna Hall, but like the finish line at the Stade de France, she’s already beaten you to it.Today I will become an OlympianI am in control of my body, it does what I tell itThere is nothing I can’t do.Anna Hall competes in the women’s heptathlon javelin throw during the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Team Trials Monday, June 24, 2024, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)“I just really feel like when you write…

First, Paul Pierce, the good news: The Grading The Week kids are absolutely with you on that whole Lakers-should-trade-Dalton Knecht rant.Heck, yeah. Get him outta there. No rookie deserves that circus, let alone a nice kid from Prairie View High.But the part about Russell Westbrook?Yeah, not so much.On Friday morning, the former NBA and Kansas star got Team GTW’s eyebrows up on Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed” when he suggested Big Russ — assuming the Jazz buy Westbrook out and the Nuggets snap him up — should slot immediately into Denver’s starting five.“I kind of look at him (as) like a…

Despite a 22% increase in active listings statewide year-over-year, closed sales dropped 14% over the same period.The Colorado Association of Realtors said in its June report that housing affordability remains challenging as prices continue to climb, interest rates remain high, insurance rates rise, and property taxes increase.Summer’s busy sales season appears to have peaked early, said Denver-Douglas County realtor Cooper Thayer.“Market activity showed a sharp decline in June, indicating we’ve reached this year’s seasonal peak,” Thayer said.“With more homes on the market and less incentives for buyers to move quickly, we can expect prices to cool quickly entering the fall,”…

via Denver ChannelPamela Cabriales The murder charges against a teenager accused in a high-profile shooting three years ago should be dismissed because Denver District Attorney Beth McCann made inappropriate comments to the news media about the case, defense attorneys argued this week. Remi Cordova, now 17, was 14 when he was arrested and accused of killing 32-year-old Pamela Cabriales at a red light on West Colfax Avenue on Feb. 20, 2021. Prosecutors allege Cordova opened fire with an AR-15 rifle after a fender bender and killed Cabriales in an attempt to earn status within the Eastside Crips gang. The man…

The Rockies are showing their first-round pick historic big bucks.Colorado is expected to sign No. 3 overall pick Charlie Condon for a $9.25 million bonus sometime in the next few days, according to club sources. That agreement for the Georgia slugger would tie the MLB record for a draft signing bonus with this year’s No. 2 overall pick, Wake Forest right-hander Chase Burns, who officially signed with the Reds on Thursday.The slot value of Condon’s pick is $9.07 million. This year’s No. 1 overall pick, Oregon State second baseman Travis Bazzana, agreed to an $8.95 million bonus with Cleveland earlier…

Fresh off his first All-Star appearance, Ryan McMahon shot down the possibility he’s on this month’s trading block.As the Rockies rebuild for the future amid another season on track for 100-plus losses, McMahon’s career year gives him value on the open market that the club could exchange for what they need most: pitching.But McMahon, who is under contract through 2027, said he received assurance in a recent conversation with GM Bill Schmidt that No. 24 isn’t leaving LoDo anytime soon.“I’m excited to stay here,” McMahon said. “Coming in as an 18-year-old kid, I’ve grown up a lot in this organization,…

Bo Nix is moving in.The new Broncos quarterback and his wife Izzy spent $4 million to buy a 6,551-square-foot home in The Village at Castle Pines, a gated community in Castle Rock.The Nixes purchased a five-bedroom, seven-bath home from Shane Patrick-Henry Vereen, a former NFL running back who played for the New England Patriots and New York Giants.According to property records, Vereen bought the property from Sterling Custom Homes for $600,000 in 2016. The home was constructed in 2018 and LIV Sotheby’s International Realty listed it for $4.2 million on April 11.The home features a large dining room that opens…

Denver’s Regional Transportation District suspended light rail lines, canceled trains and warned of slowed service Friday due to “communications failures” amid the chaos from global technology outages and computer issues.Outages also hit the Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles, the Colorado Department of Revenue and some police and fire agencies.RTD’s real-time light rail information was not available Friday morning for commuters, despite changes to both schedules and service delays, according to a systemwide alert from agency officials. RTD suspended light rail service in both directions on the D Line between the Interstate 25/Broadway Station and Union Station “due to communications failure,”…

Kevin Preblud and Justin Croft stood behind yellow caution tape on Wednesday afternoon in a parking lot in northern Denver and watched as construction workers in hard hats removed old windows — 400 in total — from the National Western Center’s Livestock Exchange Building for repair work and refinishing.It’s one of the first steps in restoring the 125-year-old building to its former grandeur. The developers, including Preblud and Croft, are working to revive the Livestock Exchange as a focal point of the rapidly transforming campus by filling the long-quiet building with private offices and creating a public lobby.For now, “it’s…