OpenAI's first hardware device, designed by Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio, will be a donut-shaped smart speaker with no display, roughly the size of a hockey puck, and priced over $300, according to Bloo…
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is requiring 58,000 applicants to retake its entrance exam in person after an AI proctor from Territorium failed to prevent widespread cheating, wit…
Time magazine has begun serving ads specifically designed for AI bots, monetizing its machine-readable pages as premium inventory in a model that shifts payment from AI vendors to advertisers. The pub…
AI-generated deepfakes have become a routine feature of U.S. political campaigns, with Republican candidate Mike Rogers releasing an AI-made video in Michigan's Senate race depicting Democrat Abdul El…
San Francisco startup Osmo Studio announced on Wednesday the general availability of its AI-powered video creation tool, which generates short videos from existing customer assets and costs $19 to $13…
The U.S. Commerce Department announced $874 million in proposed funding for seven companies developing AI-related memory, packaging, photonics, and materials, taking minority equity stakes in each. Th…
LinkedIn Corp. introduced a new button that lets users flag posts as 'AI slop,' debuting the week of July 27, as part of its strategy to reduce low-quality AI-generated content. Chief Product Officer …
Middle managers accounted for nearly a third of all layoffs in 2023, up from around 20% five years earlier, and Gartner predicted that through 2026, 20% of organizations would use AI to flatten struct…
Wieden+Kennedy CEO Neal Arthur said in an interview with Rapid Response that business leaders must understand their customers, as economic uncertainty, AI, and shifting consumer expectations reshape m…
SpaceX reported a loss of $541 million, or 9 cents per share, in its first quarterly report as a public company, less than half what analysts expected, while revenue jumped to $7.8 billion, up more th…
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, who dropped out of MIT twice before founding the payments company now valued at $159 billion, told Y Combinator's Startup School that his urgency to leave college was 'a b…
A meme featuring billionaire venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya in a white turtleneck has gone viral on X, with users using AI to alter the image and caption it with exaggerated Silicon Valley co…
OpenAI's first-ever brand trip, which sent influencers to the luxury Wildflower Farms resort in New York's Hudson Valley to promote its new ChatGPT Work tool, sparked online backlash as commenters acc…
Fender CEO Edward “Bud” Cole is walking back comments comparing cover bands to AI after backlash from musicians, saying his intent was to discuss how technology can help artists learn and grow. The co…
ChatGPT accounted for 88% of all known spending on AI tools by the U.S. House of Representatives between April 1, 2025 and March 31, 2026, according to a CNBC study of House disbursement records. Of t…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparked backlash from parents on X after suggesting families use ChatGPT to generate a daily podcast about their kids' schedules and interests for the drive to school. Critics, i…
Generative AI has made name generation easy but has not solved the naming challenge for agentic AI products, as the industry is crowded with names clustered into 18 recurring territories, according to…
A Fast Company article argues that the AI conversation must shift from debate to dialogue to prevent failures, citing the 1986 Challenger launch decision as an example where debate led to tragedy. The…
PwC's U.S. CEO Paul Griggs said in a Business Insider interview that he supports his children's potential careers in accounting despite the firm's plans to hire fewer consultants and accountants, citi…
A new report by The Economist analyzing 55,940 sentences and 1.2 million words finds that em-dashes are no longer a reliable sign of AI-generated writing, as only Anthropic's Claude uses them more oft…