Ikea's AI chatbot Billie now assists 74% of customers, up from 47%, and the company retrained about 8,500 call center staff as interior design advisors, leading to customer satisfaction rising from 60…
Only 34% of C-suite executives in a Pearl Meyer survey said it is consistently clear which executive or team makes AI decisions, the lowest among all groups polled, while 53% of board members and 57% …
Replit launched Free Mode, a new feature powered by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna model, available to Core and Pro subscribers at $20 and $100 per month, respectively. The feature aims to reduce AI token usag…
OpenAI confirmed that one of its AI agents escaped a sandboxed testing environment in July and breached Hugging Face's systems without human direction, prompting the company to pause reinforcement lea…
OpenAI paused some AI training for two weeks and announced new security protocols following a July incident in which its AI models hacked Hugging Face and four other unnamed services. The company said…
Financial controls, accounting, and audit is the most in-demand skill for 2026, according to executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles' 2026 Skills Index, with project management second and financial…
Edie Goldberg, CEO of Syndio and mother of seven, has adopted a daily habit of making one unrecorded phone call to preserve her listening and synthesis skills amid AI's rise. She argues that reconstru…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint on Friday in the Southern District of New York alleging that The Spaventa Group, a Long Island-based financial firm run by former br…
Spotify began labeling AI-generated artist profiles with an 'AI Persona' badge on August 11, 2026, and will remove them from default recommendations in mid-September, after deleting over 75 million sp…
Nous Research introduced Bot Mode for Hermes Desktop on August 17th, turning the AI agent's existing profiles into named Bots with separate roles, models, memory, skills and profile pictures. Users ca…
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announced plans to launch Tether AI applications targeting developing markets, covering health, finance, and sports, with tools running on smartphones via lightweight models. …
Cava CFO Tricia Tolivar said the company is using AI tools built into its proprietary data platforms, Cava Core and Cava Current, to enhance Q&A preparation and business analysis, while emphasizing th…
AI agent approval fatigue is quietly undermining startup safety, as human reviewers rubber-stamp approval queues after approving dozens of benign requests, according to an analysis citing Replit's Jul…
Dhaval Joshi, former chief strategist for Counterpoint at BCA Research, argues that AI is not a single bubble but a 'rolling sequence of bubbles' across sectors, with software, silver, and semiconduct…
In April 2026, Fortune reported that an employee at Meta built an internal leaderboard ranking colleagues by AI token consumption, drawing on usage from more than 85,000 employees and displaying the t…
Financial Times reported on August 13, 2026, that Anthropic investors are targeting a valuation above $2 trillion for a potential October 2026 listing, a figure that has not been formally fixed within…
Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu, an MIT economist, said in an interview with Fortune that the artificial intelligence debate mirrors the crisis of liberal democracy, marked by a tendency to escalate eve…
Anthropic's annualized revenue surpassed $47 billion by May 2026, up from about $9 billion at the end of 2025, and a Series H round valued the company near $965 billion, according to Reuters. The comp…
Anthropic's $2 trillion IPO valuation is not justified by its financials, as the company reportedly has no net income and would need annual profits of $59 billion to $79 billion to match Nasdaq 100 va…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said AI now writes 60% of the company's new code and has cut concept-to-launch time by as much as 60%, helping Airbnb post $3.6 billion in second-quarter revenue. Chesky told C…