Generative AI
Online holiday spending rises nearly 9%, as deep discounts and AI-powered chatbots fuel purchases, Adobe data says
Alistair Berg | Digitalvision | Getty Images Online spending rose 8.7% during the holiday season from last year, according to data from Adobe Analytics, as deals and the use of AI-powered chatbots helped inspire purchases. Sales on retailers’ websites and apps totaled $241.4 billion from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, according to Adobe. The company’s […]
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Silicon Valley’s turn of fortune: Intel has worst year ever, while Broadcom enjoys record gain
Hock Tan, CEO of Broadcom (L) and former CEO of Intel, Pat Gelsinger. Reuters | CNBC It was a big year for silicon in Silicon Valley — but a brutal one for the company most responsible for the area’s moniker. Intel, the 56-year-old chipmaker co-founded by industry pioneers Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce and legendary […]
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OpenAI says it needs ‘more capital than we’d imagined’ as it lays out for-profit plan
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a fireside chat organized by Softbank Ventures Asia in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI said Friday that in moving toward a new for-profit structure in 2025, the company will create a public benefit corporation to oversee […]
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Meet Botto, the AI ‘machine artist’ making millions of dollars
“The Threshold of Reverie,” a work produced by Botto. Botto Generative artificial intelligence is making huge waves across industries and services from finance to human resources and spending on the technology is growing fast. And the art world is no different — some artists are using it to help generate work, and others are shocked […]
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AI breakthroughs are speeding up the development of humanoid robots, but investors are still skeptical
Investors on the hunt for real-world applications of artificial intelligence may want to consider humanoid robots, which some analysts predict could begin replacing human workers at scale by the end of the decade. “Breakthroughs in generative AI are bringing 3D perception, control, skill planning and intelligence to robots,” Rev Lebaredian, Nvidia’s vice president of omniverse […]
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OpenAI is done with Shipmas and staring down daunting challenges for 2025
Sam Altman Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI speaks during the Italian Tech Week 2024 at OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni on September 25, 2024 in Turin, Italy. Stefano Guidi | Getty Images News | Getty Images OpenAI’s “12 Days of Shipmas,” which wrapped up on Friday, brought a sense of levity to end the year. The […]
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Health AI startup Suki expands partnership with Google Cloud to deliver more assistive tech for clinicians
Health-care artificial intelligence startup Suki on Wednesday announced a new collaboration with Google Cloud as part of its push to expand beyond clinical documentation. Through the partnership, Suki is building patient summary and Q&A features using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform, which allows developers to train, tune and deploy different AI models and applications. Suki’s […]
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Nvidia falls into correction territory, down more than 10% from its record close
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Nvidia shares slumped on Monday, putting the AI chip darling officially in correction territory even as the rest of the Nasdaq Composite rose to a record. The chipmaker and de facto artificial intelligence trade has rallied 165% this year amid ongoing excitement for the buzzy technology trend. However, […]
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OpenAI says Elon Musk wanted it to be for-profit in 2017
In this photo, the logo of OpenAI is displayed on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying the photographs of Elon Musk and Sam Altman, in Ankara, Turkey, on March 14, 2024. Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty Images OpenAI on Friday clapped back against Elon Musk, one of its co-founders, […]
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New AI winners beyond Big Tech are set to emerge, UK fund manager predicts
The AI revolution is “the biggest platform shift since electricity” and, as such, will bring investment opportunities in smaller tech firms that are climbing ever nearer to the Big Tech behemoths, according to one U.K.-based fund manager. “We’re of the firm belief that the winners of this new technology cycle, that really started 18 months, […]
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