Two New York comedians, Dave Ross and Harris Alterman, created and hung fake AI startup ads in Manhattan subway stations to parody the nonsensical marketing of real tech companies. A video of their st…
A giant inflatable bust of a shirtless Elon Musk appeared in Times Square on Thursday, one day before SpaceX's highly anticipated IPO, bearing tattoos that accuse the company's Grok AI of generating c…
Paramount Skydance executives detailed during a quarterly tech meeting Wednesday how AI tools are completing tasks in minutes that previously took workers hours or days, according to a presentation sc…
Meta and Google are investing $250 million and $50 million, respectively, in training programs for construction workers, electricians, and other tradespeople to build data centers essential for AI inf…
Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos compared artificial intelligence to a knife, arguing that regulation should target how AI is applied rather than banning the technology itself. Speaking at a CNBC …
Lazer Logistics has deployed an AI coaching tool named Uncle Phil AI, modeled after its COO Phil Newsome, to give site managers access to his 36 years of institutional knowledge across 750 yards. The …
Pylon CEO Marty Kausas declared the "era of token-maxxing is coming to an end" after his startup's Anthropic bill jumped from $400,000 to $1.4 million annually due to hitting a 150-seat enterprise tie…
Apple announced at its annual developers conference that its AI-powered Siri is finally ready and will roll out to iPhone users this fall, following a delay after the company initially claimed in 2024…
White-collar workers spend an average of 6.4 hours per week "botsitting" AI — feeding it context, checking outputs, and correcting errors — according to a new report from Glean's Work AI Institute in …
Brian Winch, 66, founded Clean Lots after his father's death and has run the parking lot cleaning business for 45 years, growing it to over $700,000 in annual revenue with the help of his twin brother…
A $500,000 sci-fi thriller starring entirely AI-generated actors, "Hell Grind," premiered in New York this week, marking the highest-profile film made with fully synthetic visuals. The 95-minute movie…
Facebook Marketplace sellers are increasingly using AI-generated images of scantily clad women to attract attention to listings for cars, trucks, and other items. Rogelio Llamas of Southern California…
Big Tech employees report using AI tools to compress hours of work into minutes for tasks like document drafting, meeting summarization, and code review. However, some workers say the time saved is re…
Five workers from diverse backgrounds — including a former attorney, a structural engineer, and a data professional — successfully pivoted into artificial intelligence roles at companies like Microsof…
Uber is expanding its gig-work model into white-collar AI training jobs, offering contractors hourly rates between $50 and $150 — significantly higher than similar roles at other companies. However, w…
ElevenLabs opened a pop-up in New York's SoHo neighborhood where a robot barista poured cold brew and an AI shopkeeper haggled with customers over merchandise. The event showcased the company's voice …
Israel Garcia, principal consultant on digital and AI transformation at Cambridge Experts, shaved his gray beard because he worried it made him look old-fashioned and out of touch while interviewing f…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp compared excessive AI token usage to a porn addiction, saying people are "like sitting there all day" consuming tokens without meaningful output. Karp made the remarks during a …
Google cofounder Sergey Brin said during a fireside chat at Google DeepMind Build Day that artificial intelligence will not make human achievement obsolete, citing the game of Go as an example. Brin n…
Anthropic proposed that leading AI labs develop a system to potentially pause frontier AI development, comparing the need for oversight to nuclear weapons monitoring. Former Senator Mitt Romney endors…