OpenAI keeps shuffling its executives in bid to win AI agent battle
OpenAI announced yet another reorganization Friday, consolidating certain areas and making company president Greg Brockman the official lead of all things product. …
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GitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours
… It’s not clear exactly what AI model helped find the issue, though. “Notably, this is one of the first critical vulnerabilities discovered in closed-source binaries using AI, highlighting a shift in how these flaws are identified,” says Sagi Tzadik, a security researcher at Wiz. …
You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze
… Between 2024 and 2029, he said, Gartner estimates that capital investment in AI data centers will reach about $6.3 trillion — a “massive amount of money.” To avoid a write-down of these assets, major AI model providers would ideally generate a return on invested capital ROIC of about 25 percent, So… …
Will a new CEO help realize Apple’s smart home potential?
… A new homeOS that merges tvOS and HomePod software is long overdue, and could be the foundation of an AI-powered brain to run your smart home. This could be revealed at WWDC this June, setting the stage for Apple Home’s renaissance. …
Electric Cars
… Mazda delays EV launch by 2 years, slashes investment in pivot to hybrids Automotive News Rivian’s AI-powered voice assistant is ready to roll Andrew J. …
Ride-sharing
… It promised huge investments and improved service. But, it’s also raised prices at a stunning rate, far outpacing inflation and fares for other transportation in NYC. …
The military embraced AI long before Claude
… It was to use AI against satellite imagery, but then it got repurposed for drone video imagery. This is because the US is thinking about how to develop AI for technologies for any potential conflict against China. …
Why Jonah Peretti sold BuzzFeed
… I think people don’t like certain things about AI. If you just ask them in general, “What do you think of AI?” There are a lot of pretty negative responses. I think people love playing Word Chain, and I don’t think they mind that AI coding tools were used in creating Word Chain. …
CEO Melanie Perkins explains Canva’s big pivot to AI
… So it’s been a huge area of investment on the tooling, on giving our team time, and on the specialties. We’ve had this focus on AI everywhere and then AI impact and now AI-native because we really want to be rethinking everything in this AI era. …
Transportation
… Mazda delays EV launch by 2 years, slashes investment in pivot to hybrids Automotive News Rivian’s AI-powered voice assistant is ready to roll Andrew J. …