Artificial Intelligence

Strategic upskilling is essential as AI usage increases the likelihood of job disruption and transformation. Investing in employees has never been more important.

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.

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.

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.

The early success of Voiceflow’s plug-and-play AI assistant technologies are showing the advantage of applying AI in mission-critical business applications.

AI is approaching ‘gale of creative destruction’: Generative AI means near-term job security for those who can build it and likely fast-paced disruption for millions of other knowledge workers globally.

Data center industry growth is on the horizon as AI adoption rises, with cloud giants like AWS leading the shift from the “Cloud Era” to the “AI Era.”

Publishers are closing the door on AI scraping: The New York Times banned use of its content for AI training in a move that others will follow.

Google’s Bard rises while ChatGPT dips again: Soaring costs and usage drops could send OpenAI into bankruptcy. Cheaper chips to train GPT-5 and more Microsoft funding could save it.

Study reveals Midjourney’s AI can be manipulated to produce racist and conspiratorial images. As 2024 elections approach, AI misuse raises serious concerns.

Google and American Airlines collaborate using AI to cut contrail production. Positive results and wider adoption could diminish the environmental effects of flying.

TikTok introduces disclosures for AI-generated videos: AI content is all over the video platform, which is trying to protect itself from potential legal fallout.

Key stat: Generative AI adoption will climb to 77.8 million users in the two years following the November 2022 release of ChatGPT, more than doubling the adoption rate of both tablets and smartphones, according to our forecast.

Newegg is using ChatGPT to generate product review summaries: But the pervasive issue of fake reviews and tech snafus are limiting the feature’s usefulness.

We’re seeing record bankruptcies among VC-backed startups. Factors include rate hikes, investment shortages, and bank collapses. AI funding rises, but potential oversaturation looms.

Key stat: 61% of US paid search marketers think future chat-based search advertising will be very or extremely effective, according to NP Digital.

75% of organizations globally eye ChatGPT ban: Generative AI enthusiasm might be muted by growing concerns about the technology’s risks. It could spur higher demand for enterprise products.

Daily active users jump for Roblox: Q2 results demonstrate widening net loss due to escalating costs.

Generative AI isn’t a strategy by itself: But healthcare execs should start nailing down their AI priorities soon, before the next wave of AI tools breaks over their heads.

AI-enhanced Bing Chat heads to Chrome, Safari: Microsoft tries to counter Google’s search dominance and grow revenue as Bing outgrows its Edge beginnings.