How retailers like Lowe's are using AI to make shopping 'simpler, faster, and more fun'
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A new opportunity for AI startups? A VC is betting 'multiplayer mode' can forge more human connections.
Unlike social media, AI could help bring people together IRL, especially in the still-untapped realm of multiplayer experiences, Menlo Ventures says.
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Perplexity's CEO says his AI browser could replace 2 white-collar roles every company relies on
Perplexity's CEO says a week's worth of work by a human could soon be done using just one prompt on its AI browser, Comet.
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I'm a 28-year-old AI engineer in Big Tech. Here's my advice for others who want to break into this growing field.
28-year-old Kriti Goyal used her master's degree and strategic networking to move to the US and succeed in AI at a major Big Tech company.
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Inside the AI boom that's changing how Big Law attorneys work
Big Law tells BI exactly how AI is changing its work.
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That free lunch your boss is offering might just be a way to get you back into the office
Sendbird, an AI customer service platform, caters bahn mi sandwiches to its workers every Friday to encourage them to come in. It's working.
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Perplexity's CEO says you should spend less time doomscrolling and more time using AI
As AI shrinks teams, Perplexity's CEO says more entrepreneurs must emerge to create new jobs.
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Waymo and Tesla are getting into a size contest. Temper your expectations with both companies — for now.
Waymo more than doubled its robotaxi service area in Austin just days after Tesla showed off a phallic-shaped service area expansion in the city.
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Anduril founder Palmer Luckey wants to make computers American again
Palmer Luckey, founder of defense tech startup Anduril, hints at the production of American-made computers during the Reindustrialize Summit in Detroit.
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Elon Musk says a male Grok companion is coming, with a personality inspired by 'Twilight' and '50 Shades of Grey'
Elon Musk on Wednesday teased a forthcoming male Grok companion from xAI, which already offers an anime waifu named Ani and a red panda named Rudi.
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An OpenAI employee's farewell letter offers a rare window into what it's like working at the company
Calvin French-Owen spent a little over a year on OpenAI's technical team. In a blog post he offers an insider's take on everyday life at the company.
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Amazon now requires staff to show AI use to get promoted at Ring and some other units
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at Amazon and making big changes. His latest move injects AI evaluation into how employees apply for promotions.
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Amazon workers are piecing together cloud division layoffs in internal messages
Amazon confirmed layoffs in its cloud computing unit, AWS, and employees are trying to determine which teams were affected.
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Perplexity CEO predicts the AI talent wars will become like NBA free agency
Aravind Srinivas said a few stand-out AI stars will likely have "so much leverage."
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xAI hired gig workers to boost Grok on a key AI leaderboard and 'beat' Anthropic's Claude in coding
Internal docs show xAI paid contractors to "hillclimb" Grok's rank on a coding leaderboard above Anthropic's Claude.
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Robinhood CEO says the majority of the company's new code is written by AI, with 'close to 100%' adoption from engineers
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said it's become hard to distinguish between human-written and AI-generated code.
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A young VC closed a $10 million fund for AI seed startups. Here's what he's looking for and the pitch deck he used.
Banyan Ventures will invest in 36 startups at seed and pre-seed stages, with founder Sam Awrabi calling AI "the dominant force of our lifetime."
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Windsurf's remains got snapped up quickly. Here's the intriguing reason why.
Cognition swiftly snapped up the remnants of Windsurf. The deal highlights the essential role of data in AI advancement.
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Amazon's Ring goes full founder mode, taking the company back to its crime-fighting roots
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff has returned to the Amazon doorbell business and is reinstating its crime-fighting mission while emphasizing AI efficiency
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Oracle got big tax breaks in Texas for Stargate. Now it's going back for more.
Oracle has challenged the property valuation of its Stargate data center site in Texas.
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Perplexity's CEO takes a shot at Google's AI dilemma: 'They need to embrace one path and suffer'
Perplexity's CEO says Google is stuck between protecting ad revenue and embracing AI agents in browsers. It needs to "embrace one path and suffer."
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Scale AI blames overhiring and market shifts for layoffs and says it's not profitable
Scale AI says rapid hiring for its Generative AI division led to bloat and losses. It's now refocusing on other areas.
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AI adoption is growing in the automotive industry. General Motors is all in.
America's biggest car manufacturer is embracing AI to improve production and marketing, especially for its electric vehicles.
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As AI surges, Schneider Electric is teaming up with Nvidia to help data centers manage their energy use. Here's how.
AI data centers can be energy-intensive. Schneider Electric partnered with Nvidia to develop a new reference design to make them more sustainable.
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GM has a surprising new role powering the AI boom
General Motors partners with Redwood Materials to repurpose EV batteries for data centers, amid rising electricity demand and AI growth.
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The best way to celebrate 'AI Appreciation Day'
I asked OpenAI's ChatGPT to suggest amusing ways to celebrate AI Appreciation Day. Snark alert.
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Why Sam Altman and OpenAI are making a web browser
OpenAI needs a web browser if it's going to be truly useful. So Sam Altman will have a big job on his hands to convince people to use his new one.
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Former OpenAI engineer says the ChatGPT-maker doesn't really use email
"An unusual part of OpenAI is that everything, and I mean everything, runs on Slack," Calvin French-Owen wrote on his blog.
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Stripe's CEO says he loves asking AI questions — but it falls short in another area
Stripe's CEO, Patrick Collison, says AI is "terrific" for facts — but when it comes to writing, he'd rather stick to his own style.
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OpenAI's chief economist says he's teaching his kids these 4 skills to prepare for the AI world
Ronnie Chatterji is teaching his young children four skills — from critical thinking to math without calculators.
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Elon Musk's xAI is willing to pay up to $440k if you're an engineer who can make anime girl avatars
xAI released two AI "companions" on its Grok platform, a Japanese anime girl named "Ani" and an animated red panda called "Rudi."
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White House AI czar says resuming Nvidia's chip sales to China is all about capping Huawei's growth
David Sacks said this would "deprive Huawei of basically having this giant market share in China."
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The supply chain's last mile is complex and expensive. AI has the potential to fix its woes.
AI is enhancing last-mile delivery efforts by analyzing data to optimize truck routes, predict errors, and prevent package theft.
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Elon Musk's North Star is becoming increasingly clear
Elon Musk is integrating AI across his companies and blurring the lines between them.
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Mark Zuckerberg says AI researchers want 2 things apart from money
"Here, people say, 'I want the fewest number of people reporting to me and the most GPUs,'" Mark Zuckerberg said about the AI talent war.
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WeWork's former top lawyer is building an 'AI-native' law firm. Her model for client cost savings? TurboTax.
Covenant wants to do for fund docs what TurboTax did for tax prep: make the old way look unnecessarily expensive.
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I work in HR and am a fan of AI. After interviewing with an AI bot, I think it should stay out of job interviews.
I did a mock job interview with an AI bot and felt gaslit. But I think there are HR tasks that can benefit from using AI.
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Perplexity's CEO says he's not interested in a Big Tech acquisition
Tech giants like Meta and Google have been making huge investments and poaching talent from AI startups like ScaleAI and Windsurf.
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Jensen Huang says the US needs to win a key people battle with China
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the US must win over global AI developers — especially the 50% in China — to lead the future of AI.
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Elon Musk said a year ago that AI has no use at SpaceX. Now he's willing to pay $170k a head for AI engineers.
Musk said last year that SpaceX and Starlink "uses basically no AI" because they "haven't seen a use for it."
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AI is raising the bar for sales — and Microsoft's layoffs prove the 'relationship guy' is out, says a software investor
Microsoft's layoffs show AI is raising the bar in sales — and smooth-talking reps are being replaced by solution engineers, say a software investor.
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Cognition will buy AI coding startup Windsurf, which is losing its leadership to Google
Questions swirled about Windsurf's future after Google's surprise deal. Now, Windsurf will have a new owner.
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Zuck is building Meta data centers in tents now, part of a mad dash to catch up in AI
Meta is building data centers in tents to rapidly scale AI infrastructure and try to catch rivals such as DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
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Perplexity CEO says tech giants 'copy anything that's good' as the AI web-browser war heats up
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said that young founders should live with the "fear" that their idea will be copied by a bigger company.
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OpenAI and other AI players are targeting Wall Street's quant stars with multimillion-dollar paydays
AI startups like OpenAI and Anthropic are targeting quants with a tantalizing pitch: eye-popping pay and a chance to build the future.
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How Demis Hassabis became Google's best superpower in the AI race — and maybe its next CEO
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis heads Gemini and the company's AI push while gaining more power. Here's how he became Silicon Valley's AI kingmaker.
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Perplexity's engineers use 2 AI coding tools, and they've cut development time from days to hours
Perplexity made AI coding tools mandatory, and its founder said engineers are now prototyping in hours instead of days.
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Jensen Huang explains how he uses different AIs to get the best response
"You know this is no different than getting three opinions. Three doctors' opinions. I do the same thing," Huang said.
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Elon Musk says Tesla shareholders will vote on investing in xAI
Musk said "Tesla would have invested in xAI long ago" if it was up to him.
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