Your customers would rather use ChatGPT than your chatbot, Gartner finds

Businesses spent big on AI to answer their customers. The customers had other ideas. People are approximately three times more likely to use a third-party GenAI tool, such as ChatGPT, than a company� [...]

OpenAI’s new GPT-Live lets ChatGPT listen and speak at the same time

OpenAI wants you to talk to ChatGPT, not type at it. On 8 July it launched GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models. The company says they make talking to AI feel much closer to a real conversation. [...]

ElevenLabs’ CEO on hitting ~$600m revenue and outrunning the AI labs

The ALL-IN Podcast took its live show to the Louvre this week for the RAISE Summit. It put ElevenLabs co-founder and chief executive Mati Staniszewski in the hot seat. Host Jason Calacanis opened wher [...]

Perplexity is quietly building an AI coding tool to rival Cursor and Claude Code

Perplexity wants a piece of the AI coding boom. The San Francisco search startup has built an internal coding tool, codenamed “Teammate,” and may launch it publicly later, a person familiar with t [...]

Mark Cuban thinks Lovable and Replit can outlast the AI labs

At RAISE Summit in Paris on Wednesday, “Shark Tank” investor Mark Cuban made the case for AI coding tools like Lovable and Replit, Business Insider reports. They can hold their own against the big [...]

Musk’s SpaceXAI ships ‘Opus-class’ Grok 4.5 to undercut OpenAI and Anthropic

SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, its most capable model yet. It is the company’s first release since going public and buying the AI coding startup Cursor. This is the joint model the two firms had ra [...]

Meta’s AI campus flushed a rare bacterium into Cheyenne’s water. The city hit back

A Meta contractor flushed a rare, potentially deadly bacterium into Cheyenne’s wastewater system. The Wyoming city has now suspended all data centre discharge, a fresh flashpoint in the fight over A [...]

This AI startup pays $1.7M a year in rent so staff will work 72-hour weeks

Tech loves a perk, but few go this far. Rilla, an AI startup that makes coaching software for sales teams, spends about $1.7m a year on housing stipends so staff can live near its New York office, For [...]

Fi’s new collar taps Starlink’s direct-to-cell to track dogs off the grid

Smart-collar maker Fi is putting Starlink in a dog collar. Its new Fi Ultra taps SpaceX’s direct-to-cell satellites. A bolting dog stays trackable even where phone towers cannot reach. The next devi [...]