The Trump tariffs are continuing to roil the business world, plunging the U.S. stock market dangerously close to bear territory. External forces like trade policies mean companies have limited leeway on how to protect themselves. “Tariffs, like any crisis, are extremely dynamic — and the...
Venture capital firm SignalFire has raised more than $1 billion in new capital to invest in artificial intelligence (AI) startups. It now has a total of $3 billion under management, according to a Monday (April 7) news release. The funding will go toward seed to...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is gaining traction among U.S. consumers across all age groups, according to a new PYMNTS Intelligence report, even as enthusiasm cools for voice assistants. The study, titled “GenAI and Voice Assistants: Adoption and Trust Across Generations,” reveals changing consumer preferences concerning...
Shopify now considers the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by employees to be a “baseline expectation,” CEO Tobias Lütke said in an internal memo that he posted on X after learning it had been leaked. Using AI is critical at a time when merchants and...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now a household word, thanks to the popularity of large language models like ChatGPT. These large models are trained on the whole internet and often have hundreds of billions of parameters — settings inside the model that help it guess what...
Federal agencies now have greater flexibility in adopting artificial intelligence (AI), the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said Monday (April 7). The OMB released two revised policies on federal agencies’ use of AI and federal procurement Monday, at the direction of President...
OpenAI has reportedly considered acquiring a startup connected to its CEO. Sam Altman had teamed with former Apple designer Jony Ive’s studio to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personal device. According to a report Sunday (April 6) by The Information, OpenAI has in recent weeks weighed a deal that could...
Will artificial intelligence (AI) make human workers obsolete — or make them more valuable than ever? That is the burning question in the age of AI, one that understandably concerns many workers. But MIT economics professor David Autor argues that AI will end up generally...
Meta has released the latest versions of its Llama artificial intelligence (AI) model. The tech giant says its Llama 4 models, unveiled Friday (April 4), are built on one of the most advanced large language models (LLMs) in the world. Among the new offerings are...
