2025-10-29
The moment Mack McConnell knew everything about search had changed came last summer at the Paris Olympics. His parents, independently and without prompting, had both turned to ChatGPT to plan their day's activities in the French capital. The AI recommended specific tour companies, restaurants, and attractions — businesses that had won a new kind of visibility lottery.
"It was almost like this intuitive interface that older people were as comfortable with using as younger people," McConnell recalled in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat. "I could just see the businesses were now being recommended."
That observation has now become the foundation of Geostar, a Pear VC-backed startup th [...]
2025-10-21
Presented by Apptio, an IBM companyWhen a technology with revolutionary potential comes on the scene, it’s easy for companies to let enthusiasm outpace fiscal discipline. Bean counting can seem shor [...]
2025-10-10
Adversaries from cybercrime gangs to nation-state cyberattack squads are fine-tuning weaponized AI with the goal of defeating new patches in 3 days or less. The quicker the attack, the more time to ex [...]
2025-10-24
We all have anecdotal evidence of chatbots blowing smoke up our butts, but now we have science to back it up. Researchers at Stanford, Harvard and other institutions just published a study in Nature a [...]
2025-10-15
The Dfinity Foundation on Wednesday released Caffeine, an artificial intelligence platform that allows users to build and deploy web applications through natural language conversation alone, bypassing [...]
2025-04-23
A group of former OpenAI employees, researchers, and nonprofit organizations is urging regulators to block OpenAI’s proposed corporate restructuring, arguing it threatens the company’s founding mi [...]
2025-08-30
Meta hosted several AI chatbots with the names and likenesses of celebrities without their permission, according to Reuters. The unauthorized chatbots that Reuters discovered during its investigation [...]
2025-10-16
One year after emerging from stealth, Strella has raised $14 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered customer research platform, the company announced Thursday. The round, led by Bessemer [...]
2025-08-14
Gartner predicts that by 2028, one in four job applicant profiles will be fake.<br /> The article Gartner predicts that by 2028, one in four job applicant profiles will be fake appeared first on [...]