Artificial Intelligence

Google expands its AI ‘Model Garden’ and adds free instruction: It sees the AI-skills scramble as an opportunity for cloud growth. Automation might fuel an endless upskilling trend.

Instagram may follow Snapchat and TikTok in deploying AI chatbots: Move promises to reshape user engagement and advertising but demands cautious implementation to ensure user safety

To ensure your brand doesn’t fall into a bland or copycat marketing spiral, our analysts said AI should be a starting point and that the human element is essential. They also warned of conformity. Here are their insights into the risks that generative AI poses to brand originality and where the technology can help brands experiment.

Digital bank One Zero’s generative AI-driven chatbot has the potential to free up bankers’ time, letting them cater to a broader spectrum of customers.

Apple avoids generative AI buzzwords, embraces the technology: Many of its products unveiled at WWDC, including the Vision Pro, rely on advanced AI. Apple loves to be different.

Will ChatGPT be OpenAI’s final chatbot? A leaked comment doesn’t tell the whole story of OpenAI’s ambitions. But staying focused on improving ChatGPT is probably the best move.

Reddit's road to IPO gets rougher: Workforce cuts, declining valuation, and a conflict with OpenAI over API charges threaten the company's stability.

AI enhances B2B advertising: LinkedIn’s latest feature levers OpenAI models to improve ad creation efficiency.

On today's episode, we discuss whether most of what AI writes is useless, if AI is coming for your job, the likelihood of human extinction, and AI rules that could help us avoid that scenario. "In Other News," we talk about what Nvidia is and why it just joined the hyper-exclusive trillion-dollar club and what happens now that Neuralink can test its brain implants on humans. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Jacob Bourne and Gadjo Sevilla.

Advertising employment peaks: AI advances may promise potential disruption.

Google’s AI experiments show a profit-performance tension: Added features point to its newfound AI confidence. The focus should be on maintaining search dominance, user experience, and effective monetization.

OpenAI courts Israeli talent amid US tech sector’s layoff bloodbath: US techies lose leverage as OpenAI’s CEO travels the world looking for AI-skilled workers he can’t find at home.

On today's episode, we discuss whether we'll be able to tell if something is AI-generated, whether AI can be considered an "inventor," and whether now is the right time to adopt this technology. "In Other News," we talk about how smart ChatGPT really is and what ever happened to IBM's AI supercomputer Watson after it won at "Jeopardy!" Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Jacob Bourne and Gadjo Sevilla.

Meta’s reversal on remote work bound for fallout: The news comes at a bad time as record layoffs wrap up, metaverse doubts linger, and morale hangs by a thread.

AI cost nearly 4,000 tech workers their jobs in May: Jobs aren’t the only casualty of the AI workplace upheaval. Brace for a quality-control crisis.

Reddit’s API changes put it in conflict with its users—again: The platform’s perennial problem is a user base opposed to its investor-focused policies.

We round up how some large financial institutions are currently testing AI for front- and back-office functions.

On today's episode, we discuss what AI-generated ads will look like, TikTok testing a new AI chatbot called Tako, Formula One finding a new way to advertise on its cars, ESPN offering its channel as a standalone streaming service, what using VR in a car will look like, visualizing the US workforce as 100 people, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our forecasting writer Ethan Cramer-Flood, director of forecasting Oscar Orozco, and analyst Max Willens.

Privacy violations expose questions about data security in IoT devices and could lead to stricter regulations and potential impact on targeted advertising strategies.