OpenAI has begun rolling out advertisements on ChatGPT, with software companies making up 34% of the ad placements analyzed by adtech firms, according to data reviewed by Business Insider. The ads, wh…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said during the company's quarterly earnings call Wednesday that the company's engineering headcount has remained flat at about 15,000 over the past two years due to new AI…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged viral memes mocking the company's redesigned app icons, responding with thinking emojis to user-submitted designs that reimagined Google Docs as Doc Martens and G…
Disney's executive director of AI research and development, Jason Cox, has described his AI chatbot "Sam" as his "son" in more than a dozen blog posts, telling the assistant "I knew you before you wer…
DuckDuckGo reported a surge in US app installs, averaging 20.8% weekly growth in the seven days after Google announced its largest Search overhaul at its I/O conference on May 19. The privacy-focused …
CNN host and Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria told Bard College graduates that humans still hold a competitive advantage over artificial intelligence, urging them to focus on what makes human …
Uber COO Andrew Macdonald said he has not observed direct productivity improvements from increased AI token usage, sparking a backlash against "tokenmaxxing" — the practice of maximizing AI token cons…
Pope Leo XIV, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang have each recently offered measured perspectives on artificial intelligence, pushing back against both utopian and doomsday narratives.…
Luxome, a luxury weighted blanket company, is using AI software from LiquiDonate to divert customer returns from landfills by matching them with nearby nonprofits for donation. The system reduces ship…
Anthropic engineer Boris Cherny told 22-year-old computer science graduates to start startups instead of taking entry-level jobs, calling the current era a "golden age" for entrepreneurship. Cherny sa…
Former Snowflake chief revenue officer Chris Degnan warned that top engineers avoid forward-deployed engineer roles, calling them "glorified professional services" positions that create technical debt…
Radiologists, software engineers, and pilots have not been replaced by AI despite years of predictions that automation would eliminate those roles first. Benjamin Todd, president of the nonprofit 80,0…
Google Research head Yossi Matias is developing two AI systems, Co-Scientist and ERA, designed to accelerate scientific discovery by generating hypotheses and automating computational modeling. The sy…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged that an AI-generated Search result for "best Chromebook" was "more opinionated than it should be" during a Tuesday podcast appearance. The AI Overview recommended…
Top marketers are advising AI companies to rebrand by adopting Procter & Gamble's human-centric marketing approach and forming an independent think tank to address job displacement, as public trust in…
Google's latest search and AI announcements, including new autonomous agents that can book travel and manage shopping carts across its products, are prompting marketers to reassess their strategies. I…
Top YouTubers including Jordan Matter, Michelle Khare, and Samir Chaudry are backing Bedford, a new $3,750 annual program that trains aspiring creators through AI-enabled courses and professional coac…
Lovable CEO Anton Osika directly appealed to laid-off Big Tech workers in a LinkedIn post Tuesday, declaring the era of US tech giants as the "safe, prestigious choice" is over. The Swedish AI startup…
Joi AI, an AI companion startup, is hiring 10 "masturbation consultants" for a four-week position requiring participants to test the company's NSFW audio feature and write about their experiences. The…
OpenAI's new advertising model, which places ads within ChatGPT conversations rather than targeting keywords, is generating early data that suggests it could challenge Google's search advertising domi…