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Major enterprises are revealing their approaches to scaling generative AI as organizations prepare for widespread adoption in 2025. In an article published by VentureBeat, author Bryson Masse explores how companies like Wayfair and Expedia are combining custom solutions with external platforms to optimize their AI operations. Wayfair’s CTO Fiona Tan reports that the company uses … Read more
A new report reveals that enterprise AI adoption is still in its early stages, with only 25% of companies having deployed AI solutions in production. According to the State of AI Development Report by Vellum, based on interviews with over 1,250 AI developers, only a quarter of those who deployed AI have seen measurable impact. … Read more
OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model and similar AI systems require a different prompting strategy to achieve optimal results. According to an article by Carl Franzen in VentureBeat, users should provide detailed context through “briefs” rather than traditional prompting methods. Former Apple interface designer Ben Hylak demonstrated that letting o1 plan its own analytical steps leads to … Read more
A 28-year-old nursing student has formed an intense emotional and romantic relationship with ChatGPT, spending up to 56 hours per week interacting with her AI companion. According to a report by Kashmir Hill in The New York Times, the woman, identified by her online name Ayrin, customized the AI chatbot to act as a flirtatious … Read more
Bloomberg’s editor John Micklethwait outlines how artificial intelligence will transform journalism while largely preserving reporters’ roles. In his detailed analysis, Micklethwait predicts that AI will augment rather than replace human journalists, particularly in investigative reporting and breaking news coverage. The analysis suggests that AI will primarily change editing functions, automating tasks like fact-checking and content … Read more
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has founded a new AI startup called Hooglee, focusing on AI-powered video generation and social networking. According to Forbes reporter Sarah Emerson, the company aims to “democratize video creation with AI” and is currently funded by Schmidt’s family office, Hillspire. Sebastian Thrun, co-founder of Google’s Waymo, leads the project alongside … Read more
We are in the third year of the generative AI boom. While some are predicting a stall for the industry as a whole, I personally expect 2025 to be a year of interesting, meaningful and useful advances. Generative AI is here to stay. The advances to come may not always look as exciting as those … Read more
Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype and prominent European tech investor, believes European startups can thrive in AI despite the significant funding gap with US competitors. In an interview with the Financial Times, as reported by Tim Bradshaw, Zennström explained that European companies can succeed by developing applications on top of established AI platforms from companies … Read more
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has announced that his company’s AI chips are advancing at a rate surpassing Moore’s Law, the long-standing principle of computing progress. According to TechCrunch’s recent report, Huang states their latest data center superchip performs 30 times faster for AI tasks than previous generations. The CEO attributes this acceleration to Nvidia’s comprehensive … Read more
Social media platforms are struggling with a new trend where users modify graphic violence and murder footage using AI to make it appear like scenes from Minions animated movies. According to Emanuel Maiberg from 404 Media, people are using Runway’s AI video generator to transform disturbing content, including real suicide footage and terrorist attacks, into … Read more