OpenAI Co-Founder: To Move Forward, AI Must Go Back to Fundamental Science
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever says the era of scaling compute and data as the main driver of AI progress is ending, arguing that meaningful advances now...
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OpenAI and Perplexity Launch AI Shopping Assistants, But Startups Say Niche Still Wins
OpenAI and Perplexity introduced AI shopping tools this week, helping users find products through chat-based queries. Experts say startups with niche datasets may still outperform general-purpose...
By 2030, ChatGPT Could Become One of the World’s Largest Companies
Analysts say ChatGPT’s explosive growth trajectory puts it on track to become one of the world’s largest companies by 2030, driven by unprecedented demand for AI...
Ex-MrBeast Strategist Builds AI Tool to Boost Short-Form Video Content and Analytics
Palo, founded by Jay Neo and former Palantir engineer Shivam Kumar, provides AI-powered analytics and ideation tools to help short-form video creators optimize content and grow...
Salesforce CEO Switches AI Tools, Moving from ChatGPT to Gemini 3
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he is abandoning ChatGPT in favor of Google’s new Gemini 3 AI, praising its speed, reasoning, and multimodal capabilities. The endorsement...
ChatGPT Launches Global Group Chats Across All Plans
ChatGPT is expanding group chats to Free, Go, Plus, and Pro users worldwide, allowing collaborative conversations with friends, family, or coworkers alongside AI assistance.
Wispr Raises Additional $25M as Voice-First Dictation App Gains Enterprise Momentum
Voice AI startup Wispr has secured another $25M in funding as its Flow dictation app surges in enterprise adoption and user retention, bringing total capital raised...
Nvidia Posts Record Q3 Results as Data Center Demand Surges
Nvidia reported strong third quarter results driven by soaring demand for its data center GPUs and Blackwell architecture. The company raised its outlook as AI infrastructure...
Target Expands OpenAI Partnership With ChatGPT Shopping App
Target is deepening its partnership with OpenAI through a new ChatGPT shopping app and broader enterprise use of frontier models to streamline operations and improve guest...
Google Launches Gemini 3 with Advanced Multimodal Reasoning
Google has released Gemini 3, its most powerful AI model yet, offering advanced multimodal reasoning, coding capabilities, and agentic planning tools across multiple platforms.
ChatGPT May Soon Have Ads, But OpenAI Plans a Unique Approach
OpenAI is exploring how ads might fit into ChatGPT, but CEO of Applications Fidji Simo says any ad model must be radically different from traditional approaches.
OpenAI Rolls Out Pilot Group Chat Feature for ChatGPT
OpenAI introduces group chat for ChatGPT, letting users collaborate in shared conversations with GPT‑5.1 Auto handling responses, image generation, and more.