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The evolution of OpenAI's Sam Altman

Before leading OpenAI, Sam Altman was the president of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator that has launched companies including Airbnb, Instacart,...

22.02.2024 7

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Michelle Cheng

An Amazon executive on the company's place in the AI race

When it comes to generative AI, the companies that come to mind are Google, Meta, and OpenAI. But don’t count Amazon out of the AI race.Read more...

19.02.2024 10

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Michelle Cheng

Weekend Business News Roundup February 17, 2024

After Taco Bell dropped its entire 2024 menu plan like it was a new iPhone release, you’d think the chain wouldn’t be too worried about being...

18.02.2024 5

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Michelle Cheng

Weekend Money Markets Roundup February 17, 2024

Warren Buffett’s holding company Berkshire Hathaway, which owns GEICO and Dairy Queen, sold off about 1% of its stake in Apple in the last quarter...

18.02.2024 6

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Weekend Tech Innovation Roundup February 17, 2024

Amazon allegedly tricked users into buying more expensive products through the use of its “Buy Box,” according to a class action lawsuit filed...

18.02.2024 5

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Michelle Cheng

Weekend Lifestyle Roundup February 17, 2024

It seems the stainless steel panels of the Tesla Cybertruck are not really stain “less,” and are turning out to be no less susceptible to stains...

18.02.2024 5

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Michelle Cheng

Weekend Leadership Roundup February 17, 2024

Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos sold another 12 million shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth over $2 billion this past week, according...

18.02.2024 5

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Michelle Cheng

Sam Altman’s $7 trillion AI chip project might not be very realistic

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to raise trillions of dollars to reshape the global semiconductor industry, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this...

18.02.2024 6

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Michelle Cheng

How OpenAI’s new video generator Sora could change videos

OpenAI made its big drop yesterday — releasing Sora, a text-to-video AI generator that can create realistic videos. Sora can generate both realistic...

17.02.2024 5

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Michelle Cheng

Nvidia is now the third most valuable company, thanks to AI

As of today, Nvidia’s market capitalization—which stands at $1.88 trillion—has now surpassed both the market caps of Amazon ($1.75 trillion) and...

15.02.2024 30

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AI can restore the jobs that automation and globalization killed, a report says

AI is indeed changing the labor market, see the flood of news articles on layoffs happening in part due to companies’ priorities shifting to AI. Now...

15.02.2024 7

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Michelle Cheng

Nvidia overtook Amazon and now it's coming for Google

Nvidia has just overtaken Amazon for the first time in two decades as thefourth-most valuable US-listed company; now, it’s on track to surpass...

14.02.2024 5

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Michelle Cheng

AI will judge your entire financial life and Moody’s is stoked about it

A lot of CEOs are highlighting AI initiatives on earnings calls with investors and analysts. Add Moody’s to the list.Read more...

14.02.2024 6

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What ChatGPT getting a memory means for you

Today (Feb. 13) OpenAI announced a new feature where ChatGPT users can now have the AI chatbot remember something specific from chats with it...

14.02.2024 6

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Michelle Cheng

An Ivy League school just announced its first AI degree

At the University of Pennsylvania, undergraduate students in its school of engineering will soon be able to study for a bachelor of science degree in...

13.02.2024 2

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Michelle Cheng

Unicorn companies aren't that special anymore

ByteDance, SpaceX, and Shein—what do these companies have in common? They’re all “unicorns,” which refers to privately-backed companies with...

13.02.2024 1

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Michelle Cheng

Thanks to an AI craze, Nvidia's market cap has officially surpassed Amazon's

On Monday (Feb. 12), Nvidia — the AI chipmaker of choice for big tech and AI startups — sailed past Amazon in market value to become the fourth...

13.02.2024 6

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Michelle Cheng

OpenAI is set to hit $2 billion in revenue, and fast

Just seven years after being founded, OpenAI’s annual run rate—a measure of one month’s revenue multiplied by 12—hit the $2 billion revenue...

12.02.2024 20

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Michelle Cheng

AI goes from buzz to actually making money as it nears 'the end of the hype cycle'

In the slew of tech company earnings reports last week, companies such as Palantir and Arm pointed to how AI is increasing their revenue. And that...

12.02.2024 10

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Sam Altman wants to raise up to $7 trillion for his new AI chip project

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to raise as much as $5 to $7 trillion on a new project that would boost the world’s chip-building capacity, the Wall...

09.02.2024 2

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Michelle Cheng

A group backed by Google and Microsoft wants to make “nutrition labels” for AI content

With more than 2 billion voters expected to head to polls in 50 countries this year, the industry group Coalition for Content Provenance and...

09.02.2024 8

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Michelle Cheng

AI-generated voices in robocalls are now illegal

A federal regulator said Thursday that the law banning unwanted calls made using artificial or prerecorded voices without the prior consent of the...

08.02.2024 4

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Michelle Cheng

Arm's earnings show how generative AI is making its way into phones

Arm, a UK-based chip designer whose technology can be found in smartphones and PCs, says AI demand is fueling revenue. “We are also seeing strong...

08.02.2024 3

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Michelle Cheng

Google is renaming its AI chatbot from Bard to Gemini

Google is coming for OpenAI. Read more...

08.02.2024 10

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Microsoft’s first Super Bowl ad in four years is all about AI

Microsoft hasn’t had an ad in the Super Bowl since 2020. But this Sunday (Feb. 11), the company is buying a spot in front of the masses watching...

07.02.2024 5

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Michelle Cheng

Uber had a profitable year for the first time since its IPO

Uber has just reached its first annual profit since it IPO-ed in 2019, marking how the company is no longer pursuing growth at all costs over profits....

07.02.2024 2

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Michelle Cheng

Palantir's stock surged as AI demand drives revenue

In the last three months of Dec. 2023, Palantir, a data management software company, which caters to military and intelligence agencies as well as...

07.02.2024 10

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Michelle Cheng

China's biggest smartphone maker is prioritizing AI instead

Huawei, one of the biggest phone makers in the world, is reportedly prioritizing manufacturing AI chips, and slowing down production for the chips...

06.02.2024 3

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Michelle Cheng

Adam Neumann wants to buy back WeWork

The one-time CEO of WeWork and capital providers, including Dan Loeb’s Third Point, have been exploring an offer to buy WeWork out of bankruptcy,...

06.02.2024 5

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Michelle Cheng

The industries and companies AI will impact the most, according to a new report

Automation isn’t new—it’s been happening since the Industrial Revolution. But the latest version, generative AI, will probably impact highly...

06.02.2024 5

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Michelle Cheng

AI could help combat climate change, a new study finds

Critics have been raising concerns about the energy consumption of the generative AI models that fuel chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard. But we’ve been...

06.02.2024 3

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Michelle Cheng

Boeing's 737 Max woes keep on coming—but the stock isn't sinking as much

After a piece of a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet tore off on Jan. 5, Boeing stock plunged nearly 10% that week. Then the shares sank again—more than...

05.02.2024 4

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Michelle Cheng

Novo Nordisk CEO says he's "surprised" at weight loss drug demand in Europe

It turns out weight-loss drugs are not just a US phenomenon.Read more...

05.02.2024 10

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Michelle Cheng

4 times that AI 'hallucinations' showed up in court cases

A New York lawyer is facing possible disciplinary action for citing a fake case in court papers generated by AI, the latest hiccup for attorneys and...

05.02.2024 10

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Michelle Cheng

Big tech companies had big layoffs. Then they saw big profits

In the last year, tech giants made massive cuts to their workforce, which didn’t just please investors — they led to sky-high profits. Meta, for...

03.02.2024 4

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Michelle Cheng

Apple teases AI announcement for "later this year"

We are one step closer to knowing what Apple is developing on the generative AI front.Read more...

02.02.2024 3

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Michelle Cheng

Meta's metaverse is back

Mark Zuckerberg is on a mission to make the metaverse happen. In the last three months ending Dec. 31, Meta’s Reality Labs division hit $1 billion...

02.02.2024 5

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Michelle Cheng

OpenAI says GPT-4 probably won't help in developing biological weapons

OpenAI’s most advanced AI model, GPT-4, doesn’t pose a risk of helping people create biological threats, according to early research from the...

01.02.2024 2

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Michelle Cheng

When the Fed will actually lower interest rates, according to analysts

The last time the Federal Reserve cut interest rates was in March 2020, right before the global economy was turned upside down by a pandemic. And,...

31.01.2024 3

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Michelle Cheng

Peugeot cars will soon use ChatGPT to talk to drivers

More automakers want you to talk to your car.Read more...

31.01.2024 3

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Michelle Cheng

AI enthusiasm is driving Microsoft’s cloud business higher

Tech layoffs are happening—and Microsoft is no exception. But Microsoft’s bottom line is thriving. In the last three months ending Jan. 30, the...

31.01.2024 2

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Michelle Cheng

UPS is laying off 12,000 workers, just months after a "historic" deal averted a strike

United Parcel Services (UPS) plans to slash about 2%of its 500,000-person workforce. Most of the 12,000 job cuts will be full- and part-time...

30.01.2024 3

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Michelle Cheng

Nvidia’s biggest customers are also the AI chip maker’s biggest threat

Nvidia—which roughly translates to “envy” in Latin—has been having its AI moment. The chip maker’s stock is up almost 30% year-to-date,...

30.01.2024 7

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Michelle Cheng

Taylor Swift AI deepfakes took over the Internet. Here's what to know

Last week, explicit AI-generated photos of Taylor Swift flooded X, marking the latest high-profile deepfakes and highlighting the challenge of...

30.01.2024 8

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Michelle Cheng

China’s lead over the US in chip startup funding is bigger than ever

When it comes to venture capital for computer chips, the gap between the US and China has never been wider.Read more...

29.01.2024 5

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Michelle Cheng

Weekend Business News Roundup January 27, 2024

Japan and Singapore enjoyed the shared distinction of having the most powerful passports in the world since 2019. But they’re not alone anymore....

27.01.2024 7

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Michelle Cheng

Weekend Money Markets Roundup January 27, 2024

There was a whole lot of excitement around the prospect of exchange-traded bitcoin funds a couple weeks ago, when the US Securities and Exchange...

27.01.2024 8

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Michelle Cheng

Weekend Tech Innovation Roundup January 27, 2024

Fears of robots taking over people’s jobs have been a recurring theme for centuries, and with recent advancements in AI, the anxiety has resurfaced....

27.01.2024 10

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Michelle Cheng

AI girlfriend chatbots won't last

Relationship chatbots are all the rage right now. Just look at the plethora of AI girlfriend bots that quickly flooded OpenAI’s GPT store after it...

27.01.2024 10

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Michelle Cheng

Big Tech's investments in AI has regulators asking Microsoft, Amazon, and Google some questions

It was only a matter of time before the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which regulates competition, decided to investigate big tech’s...

27.01.2024 7

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