Meta offers clients as much as $200,000 in ad credits: With a slew of new features boosting interest in its platforms, the company is incentivizing brands to experiment.
Softbank’s Arm prepares for its IPO, Nasdaq’s largest in two years, and it could be the key to the tech industry’s rally.
Amazon employees quit over strict return-to-hub policy: Some are opting to face a tough tech job market rather than comply with a burdensome policy, which lacks sufficient compliance incentives.
AI-generated art can’t be protected by copyright, a US judge rules: The decision could give advertisers pause due to a lack of ownership of AI-produced material.
Lamborghini unveils its first EV powered by AI: It wants to redefine the future of supercars with cutting-edge technologies while responding to the push for luxury EVs.
Google’s high executive turnover is a symptom of broader brain drain: It’s struggling to retain the talent it will need to fend off threats to Search and reclaim its AI frontrunner status.
On today's podcast episode, we discuss why the Federal Trade Commission is investigating ChatGPT-maker OpenAI; how publishers, content creators, and authors feel about generative AI; what the wrong kind of regulation looks like; and what AI rules we will likely see next. "In Other News," we talk about when we can expect to see GPT-5 and what to make of Netflix's newly launched game-controller app. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Jacob Bourne and Gadjo Sevilla.
The New York Times could file a landmark AI lawsuit: The publisher is considering suing OpenAI after licensing negotiations collapsed.
Microsoft undermines OpenAI with Databricks partnership: The tech giant has found a new startup interest to grow its cloud business with open-source AI tools. OpenAI may be in trouble.
Microsoft’s early AI search missteps left it far behind Google: Bing is struggling to make gains against Google despite coming out of the gate early with AI.
Tencent plans to unveil its AI model, Hunyuan, intensifying China’s AI race just as Beijing’s new regulations are implemented. Its guardrails could have worldwide implications.
Google’s life advice chatbots could trigger internal tension: It’s testing 21 tools based on generative AI, but ethicists are worried about safety and emotional dependence, which could pose commercial challenges.
Google AI will summarize news articles—but only after clicking through: What’s supposed to be an olive branch to worried publishers raises more questions than it answers.
Trained by AI today, replaced tomorrow? Hitachi unveils an AI-powered job-training technology that provides a solution to the knowledge-transfer problem. It also raises job security questions.
Strategic upskilling is essential as AI usage increases the likelihood of job disruption and transformation. Investing in employees has never been more important.
Google to launch Gemini this fall with multimodal features: It wants to topple OpenAI’s commercial generative AI lead with a new family of models. Timing with fall classes could be crucial.
On today's episode, we discuss the ways in which firms are prepared—and unprepared—for AI, what happens when companies have finished test-driving generative AI, and what to make of Meta giving away its AI model. "In Other News," we talk about when we can expect to see GPT-5 and how Apple’s lip-reading technology could be a step toward artificial general intelligence. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Jacob Bourne and Gadjo Sevilla.
Amazon’s $10 billion loss from Alexa devices sparks the latest strategy shift away from consumer electronics as it and other companies focus on profitability and reduce aspirational projects.
The early success of Voiceflow’s plug-and-play AI assistant technologies are showing the advantage of applying AI in mission-critical business applications.
Companies scramble to stockpile Nvidia’s $40K H100s: Chatbots get the attention, but it’s the powerful chips powering AI that are crown jewels keeping a tech recession at bay.