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This week, OpenAI announced that apps can nowrun directly insideChatGPT, letting users book travel, create playlists, and edit designs without switching between different apps. Some immediatelydeclaredthe app platform of the future — predicting a ChatGPT-powered world where Apple’s App Store becomes obsolete. An open question was answered today – "what will the AI-native distribution channel […]

How a semiconductor veteran turned over a century of horticultural wisdom into AI-led competitive advantage  For decades, a ritual played out across ScottsMiracle-Gro’s media facilities. Every few weeks, workers walked acres of towering compost and wood chip piles with nothing more than measuring sticks. They wrapped rulers around each mound, estimated height, and did what

Chris Lehane is one of the best in the business at making bad news disappear. Al Gore’s press secretary during the Clinton years, Airbnb’s chief crisis manager through every regulatory nightmare from here to Brussels – Lehane knows how to spin. Now he’s two years into what might be his most impossible gig yet: as

AI companies are making their much-anticipated enterprise plays, but the results are wildly inconsistent. Just this week,Deloitte announced it’s rolling out Anthropic’s Claudeto all 500,000 employees. On the very same day, the Australian government forced Deloitte to refund a contract because their AI-generated report was riddled with fake citations. It’s a perfect snapshot of where

Prezent, a startup that offers an AI-powered presentation builder to enterprises, said today that it has raised $30 million in funding led by Multiplier Capital, Greycroft, and Nomura Strategic Ventures, with participation from existing investors like Emergent Ventures, West Wave Capital, and Alumni Ventures. The Los Altos, California, startup, which is now valued at $400

Instagram head Adam Mosseri said AI will change who can be creative, as the new tools and technology will give people who couldn’t be creators before the ability to produce content at a certain quality and scale. However, he also admitted that bad actors will use the technology for “nefarious purposes” and that kids growing

Earlier this week, OpenAIlauncheda way for developers to build apps within ChatGPT, allowing users to prompt the assistant to perform tasks and answer questions directly related to the participating apps.  Several companies have launched their interactive experiences, includingSpotify, allowing listeners to ask ChatGPT to create playlists, recommend songs, and more.  When you mention Spotify in

Rishi Sunak, who served as the United Kingdom’s prime minister from 2022 to 2024, has taken on senior advisory roles as Microsoft and Anthropic, The Guardian reports.   Letters from the Parliament’s office of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) disclosing Sunak’s appointments revealed concerns that the ex-Conservative PM’s privileged information could “grant Microsoft an unfair advantage.”  

Famed roboticist and iRobot founder Rodney Brooks has sounded the alarm on a humanoid robot investment bubble. He’s not the only one. In arecent essay, Brooks calls out thebillions of venture dollars being poured into humanoid robot companieslike Figure. His take: despite the amount of money being injected into the industry, humanoids won’t be able

Enterprises expanding AI deployments are hitting an invisible performance wall. The culprit? Static speculators that can't keep up with shifting workloads. Speculators are smaller AI models that work alongside large language models during inference. They draft multiple tokens ahead, which the main model then verifies in parallel. This technique (called speculative decoding) has become essential