During a recent interview with Wired’s Steven Levy, Apple CEO John Ternus defended the company’s current position in the AI landscape. Over the past couple years, Apple has often been described as behind on AI, especially as it delayed the release of a more powerful version of Siri, which finally launched this summer. But while…
There’s a big uproar about AI agents taking over commerce and orders, but that might not be the case just yet. Delivery company DoorDash revealed during its third-quarter earnings call that it has only seen “several hundred” orders from third-party agents like Muse, Instinct, Fo, and others. For comparison, the company said in its 2025…
Google is making it easier for businesses to connect their apps to its AI experiences across Search and Gemini with the debut of its Connected Apps Platform. Introduced in Gemini and Google Search earlier this year, connected apps let users securely link and interact with popular third-party services, then use them to take specific actions….
Microsoft generated $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ended September 30, the company said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday. That represents nearly 11% of Microsoft’s total quarterly revenue of $92.3 billion, highlighting the enormous financial ties that remain between the two companies even as they…
People will find out when they produce fake images to the court that they are committing perjury and they will go to prison, just as if they’d forged a will. I think we need to be cautious about predicting disaster. I’m very optimistic. You’ve previously described an “inevitable” future where simpler civil cases are adjudicated…
EM1 has contracts with around a hundred government agencies and school districts, but none are using it to automate their extreme weather alerts just yet. For the moment, they’re only using it to workshop plans and internal preparations. Even so, all the experts interviewed for this story said they are certain that many emergency managers…
For this test, I sent all the AI agents a long paragraph explaining that my partner and I are considering exploring China late next year during a two-week-long adventure. I asked for a first draft of a potential itinerary that included: flight, hotel, nightlife, and food recommendations. Also, I asked the AI agents to chart…
As footage of ICE raids, deportations, and protests flooded social media feeds throughout the summer of 2025 and into the following year, Eduardo Maytorena wasn’t sure what his team should do. At the time, Maytorena was the LA station general manager for the broadcasting giant Entravision, which features programming in Spanish and English for Latino…
Would-be football journalist Jayden isn’t having much luck placing stories these days. “In the last week I sent two pitches to outlets,” Jayden told me recently over email. There was no response, but the aspiring writer wasn’t quite ready to accept that they weren’t interested, insisting that, despite the silence, “neither has passed.” I debated…
OpenAI is reportedly close to securing another mega round of private funding, rather than plowing ahead with an IPO. The AI lab is working on raising up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation in a round led by Coatue and investors in UAE, sources told CNBC. This follows a similar report by…
