The Prompt: Sam Altman Escalates Rivalry With Elon Musk
Plus: People are placing wagers on AI models.| Forbes
Plus: Anthropic has raised $13 billion.| Rashi Shrivastava
Plus: xAI published thousands of private Grok conversations.| Rashi Shrivastava
Plus: People are placing wagers on AI models.| Forbes
At Meta, a chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to brain drain, with rivals saying its AI talent is lackluster. But Zuckerberg’s frenzied hiring spree hasn’t stopped the departures.| Forbes
Plus: Users mourn the loss of GPT-4o.| Rashi Shrivastava
Plus: Anthropic suspends OpenAI’s API access to its models.| Forbes
Chatbots like Bard, Claude, Pi and ChatGPT can spin up a range of campaign material from text messages to TikTok videos, but AI leaders have expressed concern over the...| Forbes
Three-year-old startup Doppel is building AI agents that can automatically find and remove fake profiles and malicious ads. Now it has raised $35 million in new funding to help enterprises fight cybercrime.| Forbes
Companies are pitting AI-powered customer service agents against one another. Decagon's CEO Jesse Zhang says his company’s AI software has won time and again.| Forbes
Software developers are often frustrated by obscure pricing plans for the AI coding tools they use. With $27 million in new funding, Cline is developing tools to help them manage their AI bills.| Forbes
“There’s a lot of cheap knowledge out there. I think this could be a danger in education, and it’s not good for kids,” said one educator of OpenAI’s viral chatbot.| Forbes
AI-based translation software, DeepL, is making its first appearance on the Forbes Cloud 100 list this year thanks to a machine learning translation model that users say is more precise than Google’s.| Forbes
Plus: AI Coding Agent Goes Rogue.| Forbes
Plus: Researchers are hiding secret instructions for AI within scientific papers.| Forbes
The company has raised $200 million to build the next iteration of AI models that can help employees get their work done faster.| Forbes
The unicorn, now with $165 million in total funding, is putting AI content creation tools in the hands of enterprise users.| Forbes
The startup, which sources say is raising at a $1.1 billion valuation, helps developers at companies like Klarna and Rippling use off-the-shelf AI models to create new applications.| Forbes
Plus: A fake band pulled in more than a million listeners on Spotify.| Forbes
While some freelancers are losing their gigs to ChatGPT, clients are being spammed with AI-written content on freelancing platforms. The result: increasing mistrust between clients and freelancers and mounting trouble for the platforms themselves.| Forbes
Plus: People are using AI while tripping on magic mushrooms.| Rashi Shrivastava
Plus: MIT student restores old paintings with AI.| Rashi Shrivastava
Businesses are scrambling to be cited in AI-generated answers on Google, Perplexity and ChatGPT. A new crop of nascent search engine optimization startups wants to help them stand out.| Rashi Shrivastava
Plus: Meta’s AI app is filled with people’s private conversations with AI.| Rashi Shrivastava
Undeterred by export controls imposed by the Trump administration, the chipmaker has climbed up the Forbes Global 2000 ranking.| Rashi Shrivastava
Plus: Reddit sues Anthropic.| Rashi Shrivastava
The startup hopes to take on AI rivals Harvey and incumbents Thomson Reuters as it gains traction among law firms.| Forbes
The company, which builds customer service AI agents, is raising fresh funding as it continues to help businesses shave millions in labor costs.| Forbes
Plus: Google’s new AI model aims to talk to dolphins.| Forbes
Plus: ChatGPT gives “glow-up” advice.| Forbes
Drew Crecente’s daughter was brutally murdered 18 years ago. Someone made a chatbot on unicorn startup Character AI’s platform using her name and yearbook photo.| Forbes
Persona helps companies like OpenAI, LinkedIn and Reddit verify the identities of millions of users at a time when AI agents have made it increasingly difficult to do so. Now, it has $200 million in fresh funding from top VC firms.| Forbes
Businesses have poured millions into AI hoping for big returns in the future. This startup is saving them millions in labor costs today.| Forbes
41-year-old Jason Allen spent more than a hundred hours on Midjourney to create an award-winning image. Now he’s challenging the U.S. Copyright Office’s decision that he can’t copyright his work.| Forbes
AI companies promised publishers their AI search engines would send them more readers via referral traffic. New data shows that’s not the case.| Forbes
Chinese AI company DeepSeek stunned tech bigwigs with its cost-efficient capable models, but some industry experts remain unimpressed.| Forbes
DeepSeek says its newest AI model is as good as those of its American rivals, was cheaper to build and it’s available for free. What does that mean for US AI supremacy?| Forbes
Social media platforms like TikTok and Meta have shown thousands of ads for apps that use AI to create fake videos of people kissing anyone they want.| Forbes
With publishers scrambling to adjust to a world in which AI scrapes and repurposes their work, a new cohort of companies is emerging to forge licensing deals between content creators and AI companies.| Forbes
The ChatGPT maker is now working with Carahsoft, a billionaire-owned government contractor that helps tech companies provide their software to the Pentagon.| Forbes
After facing backlash from content creators for scraping YouTube data to build its models, the AI behemoth is trying to foster relationships with them.| Forbes
Chatbots are increasingly being used by companies to interview and screen job applicants, often for blue collar jobs. But like other algorithmic hiring tools before them, experts and job applicants worry these tools could be biased.| Forbes
Hundreds of thousands of developers use Codeium’s AI coding tools to generate code and fix bugs. A new coding engine can let them make tweaks to massive codebases in a matter of seconds.| Forbes
Experts say ChatGPT could be a game-changer for Microsoft, as it reportedly plans to roll out the technology across Office products including Word, PowerPoint and Outlook, catapulting it ahead of Google.| Forbes
When the AI frenzy created a chip shortage that left companies scrambling for computing power, a new type of cloud startups emerged to sell it to them.| Forbes
A new wave of startups are anticipating the existential crisis facing the AI industry: What happens when we run out of data?| Forbes
AI evaluation company Patronus AI claims that its new model, Lynx can not only catch hallucinations produced by large language models but also explain why they’re wrong.| Forbes
As text-to-image generators become easy to build, use and customize, AI-generated porn communities are burgeoning on Reddit. But these synthetic sexual photos are built on non-consensual images of real people, experts say.| Forbes
Skild AI has raised $300 million to continue building its plug-and-play robotic intelligence with the hope of enabling companies to integrate it into robots of all kinds.| Forbes
As Perplexity faces criticism for allegedly plagiarizing journalistic work and distributing it like a media company, it is increasingly citing AI-generated blogs and LinkedIn posts riddled with inaccurate and out of date information.| Forbes
LiveKit provides the network infrastructure that startups like OpenAI and Character AI use to ensure AI models can interact with people across audio and visual formats.| Forbes
Before she was Connecticut’s First Lady, Midas lister Annie Lamont was making early bets on healthtech — and reaping big returns. Four decades into investing, she’s reinventing herself again for the AI era.| Forbes
Plus: OpenAI is already training its next model.| Forbes
Plus AI-generated kids draw predators on TikTok and Instagram.| Forbes
Missing anti-harassment clauses, bungled PTO guidelines and botched bereavement leave terms: ChatGPT-generated company policies are exposing employers to a buffet of legal and financial risks.| Forbes
The leaders of the AI red teams at Microsoft, Google, Nvidia and Meta say they are tasked with looking for vulnerabilities in their AI systems so they can be fixed.| Forbes
Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, is backed by tech VIPs like Jeff Bezos, and counts billionaires like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang among its frequent users.| Forbes
Students who’ve turned to ChatGPT for help writing their school applications are turning back to people to make that work sound more human—and schools just can’t keep up.| Forbes
A host of startups are building robots and stuffed toys that can have full-fledged conversations with children, thanks to generative AI.| Forbes
Democratic candidate Shamaine Daniels is using AI to talk to thousands of voters in Pennsylvania, but will people pick up?| Forbes
