Coca-Cola's Fanta is launching its own Halloween universe with four original characters created with AI entertainment studio GRAiL, following tie-ins with Chucky and M3gan. The brand will introduce th…
Consultants in the AI era are being urged to adopt outcome-based pricing, where fees are tied to project results, as traditional billable hours and fixed-fee models become misaligned with AI's efficie…
Lamar Rogers, laid off from a big bank in March, has used AI to apply to nearly 200 jobs, but draws the line at letting AI apply on his behalf, calling it 'disingenuous' for senior roles. Recruiters a…
Rillet, an AI-native accounting startup, has raised $100 million in a Series C round at a $1 billion valuation, and its CEO Nicolas Kopp says AI is reshaping consulting firm hiring by reducing routine…
A video by Meta software engineer Shuayb Qureshi featuring Star Deli, a Polish bakery in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood, garnered over a million views and helped owner Zbigniew Stankowski keep the…
Nearly 70% of US software development job postings on Indeed in the first quarter of 2025 were for senior-level roles, up from 55% in early 2019, according to an Indeed Hiring Lab analysis. The reboun…
A mysterious AI model named Ox Alpha, uploaded anonymously to OpenRouter, has sparked speculation on Chinese social media that it may be of Chinese origin, with users nicknaming it 'Niu Lai' after a v…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the 'Founders Podcast' that he worries AI could be controlled by a few powerful players, leaving most consumers without a say, and that excessive fear of AI risks could l…
Hugging Face, the AI model-sharing platform, has been exploring a sale that could value the company at $13 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter. The startup, last valued at $4…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said AI data centers deserve the backlash they are receiving, telling ABC's 'This Week' that they 'basically dug their own grave.' A Gallup survey found 70% of Americans oppose …
Guillaume Meyer, a Paris-based tech founder, created a viral open-source project called 'Watermarks Remover' in response to Anthropic's AI watermark announcement, and it garnered over 2 million impres…
Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University for nearly 60 years, said he has "absolutely no problem" with students using AI to cheat because he can easily detect machine-…
Molly and Sean Morse, an Austin-based couple, disagree on how much AI should be involved in parenting their 5-year-old daughter, with Sean eyeing the Omi necklace's Parent Whisperer feature to analyze…
A mysterious free AI model called Ox Alpha, available on OpenRouter since Thursday, is impressing developers, with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison calling it 'very impressive.' The anonymous provider offe…
OpenAI's chief economist Ronnie Chatterji said his economic research team at the ChatGPT maker is hiring and requires flexibility, collaboration, and comfort with uncertainty as AI's rapid evolution c…
Tech leaders are blaming Chinese propaganda, public ignorance, and bad optics for the backlash against AI data centers, which a May Gallup poll shows over 70% of Americans oppose. Y Combinator CEO Gar…
Brian Distelburger, 47-year-old cofounder of AI performance review startup Windmill, was banned from restaurant reservation platform Resy after his AI agent, named Hannah, repeatedly accessed the site…
Stripe president Will Gaybrick predicts that checkout pages 'will go away' as agentic commerce expands, saying machines will buy from other machines and that even a less ambitious form of agentic comm…
Consulting firms are racing to position themselves as 'AI-native' to win business, with KPMG US CEO Tim Walsh stating the firm is now a tech company delivering audit, tax, and advisory services, and A…
Historian Yuval Noah Harari, author of 'Sapiens,' said in an interview on The Economist's 'Insider' podcast released Thursday that now is the time to resist giving AI rights, warning that AI systems c…