A chatbot-induced suicide could get regulators' attention: AI’s Eliza effect is triggering mental health issues. Companies will struggle to balance entertainment value with safety amid the AI arms race.
Huawei hammered by US sanctions, commodity prices: Its profits nosedive is a symptom of the macroeconomic and geopolitical issues affecting tech. Volatility means more uncertainty for the rest of 2023.
Walmart looks to improve its online shopping experience: The retail giant cut down clutter on its revamped website and app to entice shoppers to browse and buy.
The chipmaking giant is appealing for its government to shore up production on key manufacturing equipment to better compete with the US and China.
Google shows its dissatisfaction with Bard: Alphabet’s Google and DeepMind subsidiaries are joining forces to take on OpenAI. The AI model-building effort could get a boost from Nvidia’s H100.
Tech’s economic pain spreads to gaming: Electronic Arts lays off hundreds of workers. Hiking game prices during high inflation could hurt revenue and mean more cuts ahead.
While social commerce is on the rise in the US, livestream commerce has yet to take off. In addition, advances in technology (like ChatGPT) may help jumpstart voice commerce adoption. Here’s what marketers need to know to take advantage of the increase in physical and digital shopping channels.
SES and Intelsat, two of the world’s largest satellite operators, are close to a merger deal that would create a $10B company to compete with SpaceX and Amazon.
Replit, a popular online coding platform with 20 million users, is partnering with Google Cloud to create AI programming applications and challenge Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot X.
OpenAI, Microsoft might ignore industry calls to halt AI advancement: As OpenAI continues to aim for a human-level AI with Microsoft’s blessing, industry players are calling foul. Regulation is necessary.
As controversy mounts, Lockheed exits deep-sea mining: By selling its UK Seabed Resources subsidiary, Lockheed may have kneecapped the nascent industry. Expect more focus on lunar and asteroid exploration.
Splitting into six companies makes each business unit more competitive while reducing regulatory oversight, which could help increase profits.
Technology startups are finding it harder to scrounge for backing while investors play it safe in the aftermath of a banking crisis that could put the innovation economy in peril.
Microsoft, Salesforce keep workers happy amid job cuts: The companies earned the distinction of Glassdoor Best Places to Work across five countries. But more layoffs won’t necessarily reduce long-term costs.
Tech’s pace of disruption will tax social systems: Generative AI could create, transform, and eliminate jobs. A net economic and societal benefit will be difficult to achieve without regulation.
A 2022 Aira survey of marketers worldwide found 58.9% already used AI tools to optimize existing content, such as for search or to outshine competitors’ copy. Here are four noteworthy ways ChatGPT and other generative AI tools—such as Anyword, Jasper, Copy.ai, Frase, and Quillbot—might be used to enhance content.
Insurer Zurich is exploring using ChatGPT to improve modeling and claims. The tech has the potential to strengthen customer service, but not all consumers are sold.
Apple leads businesses leaning on China: The brewing tech cold war notwithstanding, companies like Apple need to rely on established supply chains. Continued foreign partnerships are essential to China’s recovery.
Bard is ‘boring’ for a reason: User feedback for Google’s chatbot has been the polar opposite of Microsoft’s Bing. It’s a symptom of a technical hurdle for an immature technology.
Does Apple believe in its headset? Some inside the company aren’t confident about the Reality Pro, and there’s evidence backing the doubt. A pivot to more relevant technologies makes sense.