Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI turmoil’s ripple effect on social media: The chaos could create opportunities and challenges for platforms in the red-hot genAI market.

Stable Video Diffusion creates brief, quality videos from still images, promising industry-wide applications. Concerns over ethics and training data sources intensify.

Details emerge about what may have led to OpenAI CEO’s firing: Tension with a board member may have added to preexisting problems. The ensuing chaos threatens the startup’s marketplace standing.

Global AI market sees major developments: AI21 Labs' funding boost, Anthropic's chatbot breakthrough, and Baidu's revenue growth mark significant industry strides.

Amazon restructures its showy AI division: It’s using the “artificial general intelligence” banner as a way to impress prospective customers, pitting itself directly against OpenAI.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss whether Humane's new AI pin is about to become as ubiquitous as the smartphone, just how much ground brick-and-mortar retail will give to online shopping, the next big social media app, if folks will start shopping on Amazon right from their Facebook and Instagram feeds, how news consumption on social media is changing, which airlines carry the most passengers, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our vice president of content Suzy Davidkhanian and analysts Max Willens and Yory Wurmser.

OpenAI’s crisis deepens: More employees threaten departure, customers look to rivals, and an investor lawsuit looms following the board’s firing of CEO Sam Altman.

Amazon aims to upskill 2 million in generative AI: It’s trying to improve its standing in the AI race, but it may need to improve its image as an employer first.

OpenAI's leadership crisis (largely) benefits Microsoft: Turmoil likely strengthens companies’ ties, setting the stage to further augment AI innovation.

Meta restructures its AI teams: Amid ethical and regulatory concerns, it’s dissolving its Responsible AI unit to focus on generative AI.

Advancements in technology and innovations such as AI is the top concern among C-level executives worldwide for 2024, per Accenture.

OpenAI upheaval casts a long shadow on its GPT-5 ambitions: Altman signs on with Microsoft while OpenAI deals with the fallout. OpenAI’s future and genAI ambitions are up in the air.

Microsoft picks up key OpenAI figures, eyeing AI dominance. Expect competitors to accelerate hiring and investments to remain relevant in the generative AI race.

Google's Performance Max AI upgrade transforms its ad offering: Ethical AI use and innovative features are poised to change digital marketing.

YouTube’s AI-powered music tools hint at genAI’s future: The platform is putting genAI in consumers’ hands to improve sentiments around the tech.

Microsoft refines its consumer strategy with Copilot: The tech giant is competing with ChatGPT for a larger slice of users’ digital media consumption.

Google to delay Gemini release until 2024: It’s holding out until it can release the world’s most powerful generative AI model. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s commercial advantage grows.

Another AI tool enters the healthcare ring: ClinicalKey AI claims to give evidence-based answers to doctors at the point of care. Success will depend on whether doctors trust its answers—or a competitor’s.

Altman out at OpenAI: The board of directors’ move marks serious upheaval for the startup amid ChatGPT Plus sign-up suspensions and security problems. The direction of the company is at stake.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss the good, the bad, and what's missing from President Biden's new AI safety executive order. "In Other News," we talk about the potential of Microsoft's AI Copilot and Elon Musk's new AI chatbot called Grok. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Jacob Bourne and Gadjo Sevilla.