Category: AI For Business

This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Is it what you see? You can subscribe here. Last week, when OpenAI’s rogue model launched a cyberattack against startup Hugging Face, the company used another AI model to defend against it and fight back. It’s a sci-fi-inspired tale of autonomous hacking, and one of […]

AI has become adept at creating sophisticated sentences, answering questions, and generating ideas in seconds. But John Nosta, an innovation theorist and founder of the think tank Nostalab, worries that technology will gradually crowd out the rare and original thinking that has led to some of humanity’s greatest breakthroughs in history. Nosta compares human thinking […]

Poke, the AI ​​assistant that lets you text like a friend, is the next big thing. The California-based Interaction Company, which powers the assistant, was acquired by AI coding startup Cognition, valuing it in the “low nine digits.” The deal brings Poke’s interaction model and personality to Devin, Cognition’s coding assistant. Meanwhile, Poke will leverage […]

A look at how Americans spend their days reveals the questions they ask Google’s AI most often. Some subjects break that pattern. People ask about government paperwork, health, money, legal issues, and what to buy far more often than they deal with any of those things. They don’t ask much about eating, getting dressed, cleaning, […]

When Joe Spector’s corgi, Eddie, ate four M&Ms, the Hims co-founder spent hours trying to find an emergency vet to treat him. At one office, I was directed to a pet poison hotline, and at another office, I was forced to wait for four hours an hour away. The bill came to $2,000. Spector thought […]

Chris Caldwell has been focusing more on tablets than AI tokens lately. The chief information officer of Chilean parent company Brinker International has spent two and a half years overhauling restaurants’ WiFi systems and finding ways to replace the thousands of mobile devices that wait staff use to take customer orders, he told Business Insider. […]

Dr. Alejandro López Lira has been pushing for AI chatbots to win the market since 2023. López Lira, an associate professor of finance at the University of Florida, started a project at the beginning of the AI ​​boom to see which models could deliver market-beating returns on stock trading. After nearly three years of testing […]

Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research, discussed the recovery in the Nasdaq stock price after initial losses related to concerns about AI spending and explained why he remains bullish on the market on money making. Artificial intelligence (AI) competition is intensifying as developers seek increasingly powerful AI tools and businesses race to deploy AI tools […]

Meta’s new ad is a wet dream of Lisa Frank. There’s a rainbow, a butterfly, a bear hug, and a smash cut of three smiling children. It’s a funny and eerie vision for AI. The ad’s narrator beckons us to call Meta’s staff “optimists” and “dreamers,” and says the company is “betting on talent,” which […]

Humans have long been building technologies that change the world around them: faster cars, better tools, and more efficient machines. AI may be one of the first widely adopted technologies that not only shapes the world around us, but increasingly influences how we think, learn, and solve problems. John Nosta, an innovation theorist and founder […]