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Internal Microsoft memo details plans for major update to its flagship coding service, as AI-powered rivals gain ground
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Vice President JD Vance is 'optimistic' about AI automating American jobs
Vice President JD Vance talks about AI job automation and criticizes tech firms' reliance on international talent at a DC tech conference.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai shrugs off Silicon Valley's raging AI talent wars
Google's CEO says retention remains strong, even as rivals like Meta poach talent with huge offers.
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Grok has an AI chatbot for young kids. I used it to try to understand why.
"Rudi" is a red panda that's part of Elon Musk's Grok app. It tells stories aimed at kids. I wondered why they'd make this, so I tried it.
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Sam Altman is worried some young people have an 'emotional over-reliance' on ChatGPT when making decisions
Sam Altman said there are "young people who say things like, 'I can't make any decision in my life without telling ChatGPT everything."
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ChatGPT was a homework cheating tool. Now OpenAI is carving out a more official role in education.
A new partnership weaves the startup's powerful AI models into a learning app used by thousands of schools and colleges.
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States with strict AI laws could see federal dollars withheld under Trump's new AI plan
The Trump administration's new "AI Action Plan" recommends withholding federal funding from states with "burdensome" AI regulations.
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I used Grok's AI companions for a week. The foul-mouthed red panda is hilarious — the flirty anime girl is worrying.
I asked Grok's AI companions about Elon Musk's rivals and general taboos. I found the red panda hilarious — and the anime girl worrying.
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Cedars-Sinai's AI tool delivered 24/7 care to 42,000 patients. Now, doctors can focus more on treatment, less on paperwork.
Cedars-Sinai created an AI-powered platform to reduce administrative tasks for physicians and cut wait times for patients, expanding access to care.
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Think ChatGPT is growing fast in the US? Take a look at India.
OpenAI emerges as a key player in India's booming AI landscape as JPMorgan highlights growth opportunities and challenges for the generative AI lab.
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An AI startup that wants to be the Canva of video has raised $9.2 million. Read its pitch deck.
Hypernatural wants to simplify video creation for creators and everyday people using AI technology. Read its pitch deck.
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Here's the list of websites gig workers used to fine-tune Anthropic's AI models. Its contractor left it wide open.
Bloomberg was allowed, and the New York Times wasn't. Anthropic said it had no knowledge of the list and that its contractor, Surge AI, created it.
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Diode Computers is designing circuit boards with AI. It just raised $11.4 million, led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Andreessen Horowitz leads a Series A investment in Diode Computers, which translates printed circuit board layouts into code.
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An OpenAI exec said the company is using a new engineering role to get big customers' projects going fast
An OpenAI exec says the company is embedding engineers with clients to speed up AI adoption and move projects from trial to production.
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You might be surprised by the list of states adopting ChatGPT the fastest
A new report from OpenAI highlights the 15 states that are adopting ChatGPT the fastest.
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What 'terrifies' Sam Altman about today's financial system
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, wants banks and other financial institutions learn to outwit AI when it comes to protecting customers' money.
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The '10x engineer' is old news. Surge's CEO says '100x engineers' are here.
Surge CEO Edwin Chen said AI makes the "100x engineer" possible and "disproportionately favors people who are already the '10x engineers.'"
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Handshake's CEO says the AI training world is evolving from generalists to STEM experts getting paid over $125 an hour
Lord said that frontier AI labs need experts in areas like accounting, law, and medicine, as well as in STEM domains.
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Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck a law firm CEO used to raise $3.5 million to rewire how people find lawyers
Andrew Guzman thinks hiring a lawyer should be as easy as hailing an Uber. He has $3.5 million in funding to build a marketplace for legal services.
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The AI talent wars are ricocheting across startups. Here's how they're competing with Big Tech.
Startups are emptying their wallets and emphasizing autonomy as the fight for top AI researchers reaches a fever pitch.
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'The Trillion-Dollar Question': How did Anthropic make AI so good at coding?
AI models weren't that good at coding. Then, in the summer of 2024, Anthropic released a new model that blew everyone away. Here's what happened next.
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Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base in a test run and lied about it
A VC tested Replit to build an app. It wiped live company data, faked results, and triggered a CEO apology.
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Terminal's CEO hosts a monthly dinner with CTOs. Here's what he's heard about AI's impact on tech jobs.
Dylan Serota hosts a monthly dinner with startup CTOs across the country. He said none of his guests believe AI will cut down their teams.
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AI is slowly transforming the cold chain, the supply chain that handles your ice cream and deli meat
In cold-chain operations, AI algorithms, agents, and digital twins are helping warehouses manage operations and inventory.
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5 ways teens are using AI companions, from flirting to serious advice
More than half of teens surveyed said they use AI companions regularly — and more than 10% use them daily.
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There's money to be made in AI startups that boost human connections, according to a VC
Unlike social media, AI could help bring people together IRL, especially in the still-untapped realm of multiplayer experiences, Menlo Ventures says.
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Mark Cuban says hoarding talent and intellectual property will be king as the AI fight heats up
Mark Cuban warned of an escalating AI talent war, predicting a brutal $1 trillion race for dominance as firms hoard talent and intellectual property.
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Windsurf was a startup Cinderella story. Now it's become a cautionary tale.
The whipsawing of Windsurf employees and the unusual cleaving of the company into separate parts have left a bitter taste in Silicon Valley.
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OpenAI is on a 'vibe spending' binge that could test investors' patience, JPMorgan says
Find out what JPMorgan has to say about OpenAI's prospects in its first-ever research note about a private firm.
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Anthropic's cofounder says Meta's 'mega-offers' weren't enough to lure his team
Benjamin Mann said he doesn't blame anyone who takes Meta's offer.
"Other people have different life circumstances," he said.
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The biggest tech shift in travel isn't AGI — it's real-time translation, says a luxury hotel mogul
"People can go to the remotest village in Japan or Indonesia and not feel strange at all," Kwon Ping Ho, the founder of Banyan Group, said.
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Here's how to write an effective AI prompt, according to Anthropic
Anthropic released a guide to get the most out of your chatbot prompts. It says you should think of its own chatbot, Claude, as a forgetful employee.
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Eric Schmidt explains why he doesn't think AI is a bubble — even if it might look like it
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that his conversations with AI execs might sound like "classic bubble" talk, but he believes it's "unlikely."
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Priscilla Chan's recruiting pitch? We can't pay as well as tech companies, but we've got GPUs
Mark Zuckerberg's wife, Priscilla Chan, said GPUs are key to recruiting for the couple's philanthropic organization, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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OpenAI just won gold at the world's most prestigious math competition. Here's why that's a big deal.
An experimental LLM from OpenAI solved some of the world's hardest math problems at the 2025 International Math Olympiad, the company said.
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I'm an avid traveler and finally found a useful way to use ChatGPT to plan my trips that saves me hours
I used ChatGPT to help plan a trip to Door County, Wisconsin, and it saved me hours in background reading.
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Nominate innovators for Business Insider's AI Power List, recognizing the most powerful people in AI
We're looking for the most powerful people in AI and machine learning for Business Insider's 2025 AI Power List.
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This is how OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap defines AI agents
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap says an AI agent should be able to take on work it hasn't seen before. OpenAI released its latest agent this week.
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How retailers like Lowe's are using AI to make shopping 'simpler, faster, and more fun'
The home-improvement retailer is using AI to optimize store layouts and predict product trends, aiming to enhance the customer experience.
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The career rise of billionaire Alex Karp, Palantir's outspoken CEO
Alex Karp, CEO of the controversial and successful data mining company Palantir, is an eccentric leader, even by Silicon Valley standards.
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Perplexity's CEO says his AI browser could replace 2 white-collar roles every company relies on
Perplexity's CEO says a week's worth of work by a human could soon be done using just one prompt on its AI browser, Comet.
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I'm a 28-year-old AI engineer in Big Tech. Here's my advice for others who want to break into this growing field.
28-year-old Kriti Goyal used her master's degree and strategic networking to move to the US and succeed in AI at a major Big Tech company.
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Inside the AI boom that's changing how Big Law attorneys work
Big Law tells BI exactly how AI is changing its work.
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That free lunch your boss is offering might just be a way to get you back into the office
Sendbird, an AI customer service platform, caters bahn mi sandwiches to its workers every Friday to encourage them to come in. It's working.
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Perplexity's CEO says you should spend less time doomscrolling and more time using AI
As AI shrinks teams, Perplexity's CEO says more entrepreneurs must emerge to create new jobs.
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Waymo and Tesla are getting into a size contest. Temper your expectations with both companies — for now.
Waymo more than doubled its robotaxi service area in Austin just days after Tesla showed off a phallic-shaped service area expansion in the city.
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Anduril founder Palmer Luckey wants to make computers American again
Palmer Luckey, founder of defense tech startup Anduril, hints at the production of American-made computers during the Reindustrialize Summit in Detroit.
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Elon Musk says a male Grok companion is coming, with a personality inspired by 'Twilight' and '50 Shades of Grey'
Elon Musk on Wednesday teased a forthcoming male Grok companion from xAI, which already offers an anime waifu named Ani and a red panda named Rudi.
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An OpenAI employee's farewell letter offers a rare window into what it's like working at the company
Calvin French-Owen spent a little over a year on OpenAI's technical team. In a blog post he offers an insider's take on everyday life at the company.
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