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The solution to the White House’s crackdown on these bots isn’t for businesses to abandon AI—it’s to evolve it. In a recent announcement from the White House, the Biden-Harris administration revealed its plans to make bad chatbots a thing of the past. Part of a government-wide effort called Time Is Money, the idea is to take on the “limitations and shortcomings” of customer-facing chatbots.

NYT tech workers are asking you to skip Wordle and avoid the ‘Times’ Cooking app as they strike for a union contract. One day before the election, New York Times tech workers are on strike, taking to a picket line outside the newspaper’s offices. And they’re asking readers not to cross their “digital picket line” by skipping Wordle and other New York Times’s Games and not using the Times Cooking app.

Should you call your boss by a nickname? What about a subordinate? New research published by the ‘Harvard Business Review’ offers surprising insights. If you’ve ever worked in an office, chances are you’ve encountered at least one person who wasn’t called by their real name. Nicknames in the workplace are a pretty common phenomenon, and they run the gamut from describing a personality trait to a worker’s favorite outfit.

Eight states are back above pre-pandemic housing inventory levels—these three states are likely next. Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter.

Multifamily developer Adam Fenton is seeking a rezoning for a site along Interstate 25 in West Wash Park. Fenton’s firm, Denver-based Narrate Cos., wants to build a three-story, 63-unit project at 1000 S. Logan St. It would incorporate 63 underground parking spaces. The site is two-thirds of an acre and has a smaller residential building on it.

Insect shells, rice husks, water bottles, and bamboo charcoal might not be the first things that come to mind when you think of high-­performance building products. But Taiwanese upcycling company Miniwiz is using them to create just that. “We take leftover construction waste, leftover fiber waste, leftover plastic or packaging waste, and turn that into a building material you can use for another 30 years,” says CEO Arthur Huang.