Microsoft is looking to add non-OpenAI models into 365 Copilot, report says
Microsoft is reportedly looking to move away from using OpenAI models to power its 365 Copilot in a bid to cut costs.
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Meet the power players at Elon Musk's xAI, the startup taking on OpenAI with its Grok chatbot
Meet the key figures at Elon Musk's xAI, the $50 billion startup behind the chatbot Grok that's taking on ChatGPT.
Business leaders share 5 ways they're taking AI from pilot to use case
Leaders from Mastercard, Infosys, IBM, and more share how they created AI use cases at their companies.
Databricks executive breaks down the AI talent wars: 'It's like looking for LeBron James'
Databricks' vice president of AI, Naveen Rao, told Command Line that probably fewer than 1,000 people were capable of building frontier AI models.
People keep talking about 'agentic' AI — here's what that means
Agentic AI refers to systems that can autonomously take actions to solve problems or accomplish multi-step tasks on behalf of humans.
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Latimer AI startup to launch bias detection tool for web browsers
The startup said its new tool can check and correct online text for bias, while drawing in new users.
VCs say digital agents, 'crypto mania,' and a torrent of liquidity are the tech trends to watch in 2025
VCs at 35 firms like a16z and IVP tell us what's hot in tech next year, how regulatory changes could rouse the exit market, and where AI goes in 2025.
OpenAI unveils the o3 and o3 mini on the last day of its 12 days of 'Shipmas'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman saved the biggest reveal for the final day of the company's 'Shipmas' campaign: A preview of its most advanced model yet, o3.
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Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian predicts live theater and sports will become more popular than ever as AI grows
The Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian predicts AI will drive demand for live theater and sports as people seek human experiences in an AI-saturated future.
Apple faces calls to remove new AI notification feature on iPhones after it generated inaccurate news summaries
An Apple Intelligence feature, new in iOS 18.2, falsely summarized some news notifications on users' iPhones.
OpenAI launched its best new AI model in September. It already has challengers, one from China and another from Google.
The rapid commoditization of AI models continues, even with a groundbreaking new approach known as inference-time compute.
Broadcom's CEO plays down an Intel bid: 'No hostile offers'
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said in an interview that his company had its "hands very full" after riding the AI wave to a $1 trillion market capitalization.
The tragedy of former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji puts 'Death by LLM' back in the spotlight
The former OpenAI researcher was found dead in a San Francisco apartment in late November. He was worried about AI models hurting the internet.
Want to break into VC in 2025? MBAs and consulting backgrounds are out. Technical skills, especially AI, are in.
VCs are increasingly looking for candidates with deep technical expertise, especially in AI. But they can't pay as much as companies like OpenAI.
M&A is poised for a comeback. Here's how this AI-powered dealmaking startup is getting in on the action.
How a startup born inside Goldman Sachs wants to give other startups an investment-banking edge amid an expected M&A resurgence.
Perplexity AI triples its valuation in about 6 months with latest $500 million funding round
Perplexity AI closed a $500 million funding round, Bloomberg reported, tripling the startup's valuation within 6 months at $9 billion.
Motorola Solutions says its AI-powered 911 software saves time and eases pressure on emergency response teams
Motorola Solutions, a public-safety and enterprise-security company, made an AI tool to help 911 call handlers organize information.
In an AI-driven world, the employer-employee relationship is poised to change
Experts say that employees should be proactive with AI to stay ahead. The tech can open possibilities for challenging conventional ways of thinking.
Google's AI video generator blows OpenAI's Sora out of the water. YouTube may be a big reason.
Early testers are playing with Google's new Veo 2 and finding it bests OpenAI's Sora when it comes to accuracy.
A tsunami of AI deepfakes was expected this election year. Here's why it didn't happen.
Oren Etzioni set up TrueMedia.org to tackle AI-powered disinformation ahead of the 2024 election cycle. He shared learnings from a surprising year.
Groq is 'unleashing the beast' to chip away at Nvidia's CUDA advantage
After offering access to Groq's inference service for free, 625,000 developers are using the company's APIs.
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I outsourced my Christmas shopping to a bot. The results were spooky.
Finding the perfect gift is a nightmare. Having an AI-powered bot do the shopping for me was even worse.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says Silicon Valley needs to change its attitude — and collaborate with the US government
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says Silicon Valley's collaboration with the US government has waned — and that needs to change.
A chip company you probably never heard of is suddenly worth $1 trillion. Here's why, and what it means for Nvidia.
Custom AI chips from Broadcom and others are gaining traction, expanding Big Tech companies' options beyond Nvidia.
Amazon commits another $10 billion to Ohio data centers amid questions about energy costs and supply
Amazon Web Services will look beyond Columbus, where energy supply is constrained, to expand its data centers in the state.
The career rise of billionaire Alex Karp, Palantir's outspoken CEO
Alex Karp, CEO of the controversial and successful data mining company Palantir, is an eccentric leader, even by Silicon Valley standards.
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Stripe CFO joins the board of $3 billion AI startup Vercel
Steffan Tomlinson has experience taking tech startups public. He was previously the CFO at Palo Alto Networks, Confluent, and Google Cloud.
How Depop's AI image-recognition tool speeds up selling for 180,000 daily listings
Depop's new AI feature generates item descriptions using image-recognition technology. It's boosted the number of site listings and saves users time.
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Anthropic is tending to the "welfare" of AI bots — before they grow up and turn on us
Raaz Herzberg of Wiz tells BI of its plans to become the world's biggest cybersecurity company
Raaz Herzberg, CMO and VP of product strategy at Wiz, details the startup's roadmap to an IPO after it turned down a $23 billion takeover offer.
Former OpenAI employee who died by suicide was named in a court case that could decide the future of the internet
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher, raised questions about OpenAI possibly violating copyright law.
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says human operators need to have 'meaningful control' of AI drones in warfare
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said AI powered drones are the future of warfare, but that humans need to approve operations so they don't go haywire.
Sora's dazzling AI could democratize filmmaking for the next generation — but it still has lots of limitations
Filmmakers and professors said OpenAI's Sora could help indie movies, but the technology is still in early stages.
Mark Cuban says AI won't have much of an impact on jobs that require you to think
Mark Cuban told Business Insider that AI's impact on a company's workforce will be determined by how well the firm can implement the technology.
5 new AI products worth trying from the avalanche of announcements this week
The AI news was seemingly nonstop this week, from OpenAI's 12 Days of" Shipmas" to Google Gemini updates and new Apple Intelligence features.
OpenAI publishes more of Elon Musk's internal emails showing he originally favored a for-profit structure
OpenAI published screenshots of Elon Musk's old emails in which the billionaire was pushing a for-profit business structure.
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AI pioneer Andrej Karpathy thinks book reading needs an AI upgrade. Amazon may already be working on it.
Andrej Karpathy sees LLMs reading books along with humans. A recent Amazon job listing suggests the company may already be working on this.
Shutterstock earned over $100 million in revenue thanks in part to its AI-powered image-generator tool
This licensed-digital-content company created an AI tool to generate images using its photo library. It's now pursuing new gen-AI features for video.
OpenAI had a 2-year lead in the AI race to work 'uncontested,' Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says
"We've had two years of runway — pretty much uncontested," Nadella told the "BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley."
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EvenUp's valuation soared past $1 billion on the potential of its AI. The startup has relied on humans to do much of the work, former employees say.
Former staffers told BI they witnessed numerous problems with EvenUp's AI, including missed injuries and hallucinated medical conditions.
The deals 4 tech bankers think the 'AI arms race' could drive in 2025
How is Wall Street gearing up for the AI dealmaking gold rush? By focusing on infrastructure and data companies selling AI pickaxes and shovels.
AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton says AI will one day unite nations against a common existential threat
Geoffrey Hinton said countries will one day be incentivized to work together to prevent a super-intelligent AI from taking power.
Public salary data reveals how much xAI pays some workers compared to OpenAI
Publicly available salary data for OpenAI and xAI shows that pay for some workers across the companies ranged from $145,000 to $530,000.
The rise of the "AI engineer" and what it means for the future of tech jobs
AI is slowing down hiring for some tech jobs while opening career tracks in others. Developers say the tech will have the job market in flux.
A former Google designer reveals what goes into building its AI models like Gemini
A former Google Gemini designer reveals key insights into chatbot design and AI product challenges.
Character.AI hit with another lawsuit over allegations its chatbot suggested a teen kill his parents
AI startup Character.AI has been hit with a second lawsuit, which alleges its chatbots "abused" two young people.
Google launches Gemini 2.0, its latest AI model that can 'think multiple steps ahead'
Google says its new generation of AI models can understand more of the world and take action on your behalf.
Apple's new iPhone update is here — and it brings more impressive AI features
Apple's iOS 18.2 update is officially here with new AI features like ChatGPT integration, Genmojis, Image Playground, and Visual Intelligence.
Will the world's fastest supercomputer please stand up?
It's getting harder to tell whose clusters are the biggest — and even harder to tell whose are the most powerful.
The cofounder of DreamWorks says AI is an 'amazing resource' for Hollywood
Katzenberg's comments come after Hollywood writers spent months on strike last year, partially in reaction to the use of AI in their industry.