Is $20,000 a month enough for OpenAI to make money?
OpenAI is considering charging a whopping $20,000 a month for access to Ph.D.-level agents — AI that can take actions on behalf of users — according to a report from The Information . If you’re just a...
SoundHound delays filing annual report, stock plunges
Shares of the voice AI software company, which was a retail trading favorite last year, have dropped over 8% after it filed a notice with the SEC late Tuesday stating that its 10-K annual report would...
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SoundHound jumps as much as 15% after earnings beat, finding gains even after growth stocks got thumped
SoundHound, the AI voice tech company, surged in trading on Friday after crushing Q4 earnings and raising its 2025 outlook. Revenue doubled year over year to $34.5 million — its “strongest quarter on ...
Salesforce sales and outlook were not as good as expected
One of Salesforce’s most well-known consumer products, Slack, was down for much of today . After reporting full-year revenue guidance of $40.5 billion to $40.9 billion — less than the $41.37 billion i...
Amazon’s planning to launch a generative-AI-infused “Alexa+” subscription to reboot its devices division
announced a major update to its Alexa digital assistant on Wednesday, introducing “Alexa+,” a subscription-based service powered by generative AI that will roll out next month. The new Alexa will feat...
Workday shares soar as Wall Street turns optimistic on AI-driven Q4 earnings beat
shares climbed as much as 10% a day after the cloud-based software giant dropped strong Q4 earnings results. Workday’s revenue jumped 15% to $2.21 billion for the quarter, topping Wall Street’s expect...
Short sellers’ reports sink AppLovin
is sinking in early trading on Wednesday after short-selling firms Fuzzy Panda Research and Culper Research announced short positions in the stock, alleging that its AI ad-tech breakthroughs are a far...
Microsoft is the latest to offer users free, more powerful AI
Every day it seems like AI is getting freer and more powerful for normies. Today, announced that users of its AI assistant Copilot would have free, unlimited access to both its Voice and Think Deeper...
Chegg sues Google over its decline
ChatGPT grievously wounded , but the education tech company also thinks Google Search’s AI summaries are to blame for kneecapping its traffic and revenue. On Monday, Chegg filed suit in federal distri...
Why Palantir is on its worst run since May 2022
The market’s jitters around continue. Until recently, the data analytics and AI software company was the best-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year, after winning the title last year with a remar...
Alibaba booms after e-commerce and AI-enhanced cloud business results impress
delivered an across-the-board beat on its quarterly report for the final three months of 2024 as the Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant seemingly goes from strength to strength. The headline figures e...
Meta joins Tesla as an AI robot company
As goes Elon Musk’s Tesla, so goes Mark Zuckerberg ’s Meta. Now, is following into AI-powered humanoid robots, Bloomberg reports . Last month, Musk predicted that in the long term, its AI-powered Op...
AI is eating the startup world
Increasingly, the due diligence for getting an ambitious world-changing technology business funded starts with a simple question: how does it use AI? If the answer is it doesn’t, don’t expect the glob...
Baidu is making big moves
It’s been a big week for , which is currently trading up 3% in the premarket. Some recent news: It turns out both Baidu and are working with to help bring AI features to the iPhone in China , though...
Arm is up on news it’s making a new chip for Meta
Chip designer is going to be a chipmaker, and is going to be its first customer, the Financial Times reports . It’s a big move for the - owned group , which typically licenses its blueprints to othe...
Finally, hard data on a real-world AI business use case: It’s huge for customer service
The tech giants are spending hundreds of billions to build out massive infrastructure needed for an imminent economy where AI supercharges productivity and boosts economic growth. That’s the theory, a...
Are Google and Reddit becoming frenemies?
A brief overview of the relationship between and : Google pays Reddit for access to its data so it can train its AI models; Reddit receives access to Google’s Vertex AI to help improve its search res...
Apple is playing the AI field in China, too, working with both Baidu and Alibaba
doesn’t want to get tied down when it comes to AI. The Information reports that the iPhone maker is continuing to work with search engine and AI chatbot company to develop the AI functionality on its ...
The weirdest and most inscrutable quotes from Palantir CEO’s AMA
When executives talk, strange things often get said . And Palantir CEO Alex Karp proved true to form on Wednesday, when he spoke for about 30 minutes as part of an “ask me anything” (AMA) on CEO Elo...
A bigger portion of people who buy stuff on Amazon is starting that journey on Amazon
Amazon’s moat around its customers’ experience is getting bigger. A decade ago, 82% of people who bought stuff on began their purchase journey on Amazon. Now, that number is up to 90%, according to n...