If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI Commencement season has come around again — and this year, a couple speakers have discovered that it’s tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence. Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm Tavistock Development Company, gave […]
Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multimodal data to AI labs In the past few years, creative marketplaces and platforms have realized they are sitting on a data gold mine, and they can either use that data to develop AI models or turn it into a source of revenue by licensing it to other AI
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What happens when AI starts building itself? Richard Socher has been a major figure in AI for some time, best known for founding the early chatbot startup You.com and, before that, his work on ImageNet. Now he’s joining the current generation of research-focused AI startups with Recursive Superintelligence, a San Francisco-based startup that came out of stealth
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Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI has been bleeding staff since its merger Elon Musk’s newly rebranded SpaceXAI is reportedly losing top talent, with more than 50 researchers and engineers departing since February, according to The Information. The exits include key leaders across coding, world models, and Grok voice. Rivals like Meta and Thinking Machines Lab are reportedly scooping
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As workers worry about AI, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is ‘creating an enormous number of jobs’ When it comes to the specter of AI’s labor-displacing potential, Jensen Huang thinks that the American worker has nothing to fear. During a conversation Monday night with MSNBC’s Becky Quick, hosted by the Milken Institute — an economic policy think
Elon Musk’s only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race When do we take AI doomers seriously? That’s a key subtext of Elon Musk’s attempt to shut down OpenAI’s for-profit AI business. His attorneys argue that the organization was set up as a charity focused on AI safety and lost
CopilotKit raises $27M to help devs deploy app-native AI agents Many companies today provide AI simply as a chatbot inside their apps: You type in (or dictate) what you want it to do, and the AI bot goes and tries to do it. Still, the experience tends to feel clunky. A text-based UI doesn’t always
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Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences For instance, Greylock-backed Resolve, which is valued at $1.5 billion, uses AI to diagnose software failures. Altara’s vision is to act as the hardware equivalent, determining exactly what went wrong when a battery or a semiconductor fails to perform. Altara isn’t the only
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Marc Lore says that AI will soon enable anyone open a restaurant Marc Lore, the veteran e-commerce entrepreneur who sold his previous startups to Amazon and Walmart, has big plans to infuse AI into his current venture, Wonder. The centerpiece of those plans is Wonder Create, an initiative that would let anyone — from food entrepreneurs to
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YouTube is testing an AI-powered search feature that shows guided answers Users often search for recipes and travel plans on YouTube to find videos related to their queries. Now, the video platform will offer a new tool to cater to those users’ needs with its introduction of an AI-powered interactive search feature that presents step-by-step results along
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