Hearst and Condé Nast ink multi-year deals allowing Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus to use their magazines' and newspapers' content, including articles from Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and other publications, to provide product recommendations and answer shopping queries.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Search now integrates ecommerce platforms like Shopify and Turbify, displaying product images, prices, and summarized reviews from merchant data, enhancing its shopping capabilities.
A vulnerability in McDonald's AI hiring chatbot McHire exposes personal data of 64 million job applicants before being swiftly fixed by the fast-food giant after researchers' notification.
AI companies race to build defensibilities like network effects, distribution channels, brand recognition, scale, and embedding as short-term strategies pave way for long-term moats amid rapid industry growth.
Major tech giants Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic partner with teachers' unions AFT and UFT to launch a $23 million National Academy for AI Instruction, providing free training and curriculum to empower 1.8 million educators in integrating AI into classrooms across the United States.
Hugging Face launches programmable Reachy Mini desktop robots, available in wireless ($449) and lite ($299) versions, fully programmable in Python and integrated with Hugging Face Hub.
OpenAI unveils an AI-powered web browser, integrating its Operator web-browsing agent, challenging Google Chrome's dominance and gaining direct access to user data.
Nvidia's stock skyrockets, propelling the company's market capitalization beyond an unprecedented $4 trillion mark, fueled by the surging demand for its AI-accelerating hardware amidst the generative AI frenzy sweeping the tech industry, despite geopolitical headwinds and restrictions on chip sales to China.
A groundbreaking AI model called Centaur simulates human cognition and decision-making with 64% accuracy, trained on over 10 million data points from psychological experiments, paving the way for unprecedented insights into the human mind.
YouTube is tightening rules to crack down on 'AI slop' and repetitive, mass-produced videos, including AI-generated content, in an effort to restrict monetization of inauthentic and spammy content that has flooded the platform due to the rise of AI technology.