OpenAI is Salesforce
When OpenAI released ChatGPT to the masses in November 2022, they were spellbound — for a bit. The tool seems amazing at answering questions. In real language. Like a person. It gives the veneer of ta...
Palantir stock salutes US Army contract
Shares of defense-software contractor and data-mining firm are enjoying a bounce on Thursday after announcing a contract extension with the US Army. The stock’s roughly 340% rise this year makes it t...
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SoundHound now up nearly 1,000% in 2024
Voice AI company surged again on Wednesday, the latest escalation in what appears to be a running battle between online cheerleaders for the stock and those betting that the run-up in the money-losin...
SoundHound AI hits record amid apparent short squeeze
Retail-trading favorite on Friday closed at a record high amid a surge of trading that bore all the signs of a short squeeze. The California-based small cap, which sells voice-AI software for use in ...
Tinder changed dating forever — now it’s trying everything, including AI, to hold on to its paying users
When Tinder burst onto the scene in 2012, it changed — for better or worse — one of the most fundamental human experiences: how people meet their partners, date, and find that special connection. Sinc...
Apple rolls out more AI features with 18.2
Apple Intelligence is slowly getting smarter. Today the iPhone maker is rolling out a software update, 18.2, that adds a number of long-promised AI features to the latest iPhone models. Those include...
OpenAI previews the ability to customize and refine its models
For day 2 of OpenAI’s “ 12 days of OpenAI ” event, the company showed a preview of a new feature that will let users customize its models for specialized uses such as legal, financial, engineering, an...
SoundHound trading explodes as retail favorite rises
Activity in , a small-cap voice AI company that’s become of a favorite for some retail traders this year, is flaring up again, as it rose to become the second-most-traded asset in the markets Thursday...
OpenAI is ad-curious
OpenAI is staffing up an ad business, while being cautious in public comments about what that might look like. Sarah Friar, OpenAI’s CFO, told the Financial Times that the company was considering ads,...
Amazon is spending billions to make sure it doesn’t fall behind in AI
With Microsoft tightly intertwined with OpenAI, and Apple, Google, and Meta stuffing their own versions of AI into pretty much all their products, Big Tech is hard at work capturing as much value — or...
Apple is hoping its “LLM Siri” will finally be a smart assistant
Smart assistants have long seemed kind of dumb — and even less smart than they used to be . is hoping by incorporating artificial intelligence, its smart assistant will become better at conversation a...
Apple is becoming more like Alphabet with big ad sales shift
After nibbling around the edges, Apple is taking a deeper bite into advertising. In a significant shift, is now selling its own ad inventory for Apple News, according to Axios. Ads in Apple News aren...
Softer, lesser, slower, weaker: The long-delayed new Alexa upgrade is still a mess
It’s a common complaint that smart assistants like Amazon’s Alexa are no longer as good as they used to be . The Big Tech companies that make these assistants — , , — were hoping the advent of gen AI...
Wall Street’s hottest stock, Palantir, only employs 3,892 people
Data-analytics company is now the S&P 500’s best-performing stock this year, just two months after debuting on the index. Shares have surged since early November, when the defense-technology firm “ab...
Retail darling SoundHound hits record sales as more restaurants flip the AI switch
Voice-enabled AI company reported record sales in Q3, along with a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss, as the company — which has built a following among retail shareholders — says it’s seeing grow...
ChatGPT scrambled the Chegg
An interesting thought experiment of mine has been trying to figure out which businesses will eventually be killed by generative AI. So far, education tech company appears to be the biggest loser, wi...
Amazon is getting in on smart glasses just like everyone else
There are no new ideas in the world, just new iterations. Enter Amazon, which is developing smart glasses for its delivery drivers in hopes of saving time with turn-by-turn directions to deliver packa...
T-Mobile is making a nine-figure bet on AI customer service
One of the bigger questions to emerge since ChatGPT was launched two years ago is which jobs will be most quickly replaced by generative AI. Two years later, one of the front-runners appears to be cus...
Apple’s Genmoji is coming in time for the holidays
The pinnacle of AI computing should be coming to iPhone just in time for Christmas! No, not a virtual assistant that actually works , but, rather, Genmoji, custom emojis you can create with text promp...
Amazon’s AI business is growing faster than AWS did
third-quarter results offered some interesting glimpses at how AI is not only growing the company’s white-hot cloud-computing business, but also how the company is using the technology to advance its ...