OpenAI announces Apps SDK allowing ChatGPT to launch and run third party apps like Zillow, Canva, Spotify

OpenAI's annual conference for third-party developers, DevDay, kicked off with a bang today as co-founder and CEO Sam Altman announced a new "Apps SDK" that makes it "possible to b [...]

Coursera announces $500 million buyback one week after closing its $2.5 billion Udemy merger

  Coursera has announced a $500 million share repurchase programme, its first buyback since going public in 2021 and one that arrives exactly one week after the online learning company completed its [...]

The man who coined ‘agentic AI’ is betting it won’t take your job

Andrew Ng helped give the AI industry its vocabulary, from “AI is the new electricity” to “agentic AI.” His new company bets against the phrase everyone else is using: that AI will take your j [...]

Coursera CEO Greg Hart at HumanX - enrollment in AI course ‘every four seconds’

Coursera chief executive officer Greg Hart at HumanX - enrollment in AI course ‘every four seconds’ [...]

LinkedIn wants you to tell its AI about your dream job

LinkedIn is still on a mission to persuade job hunters to apply for fewer roles. But the company is rolling out a new set of AI-powered upgrades to its job-searching features it hopes will make that p [...]

OpenAI's character cameos will let you put pets and original personas in Sora videos

OpenAI has rolled out the capability to create character cameos of your pets, doodles, original personas or even objects in the Sora app, which you can put in your videos. You can start the process by [...]

Meta's human-like chatbot personas can mislead users and result in real-world harm

"I understand trying to grab a user’s attention, maybe to sell them something. But for a bot to say ‘Come visit me’ is insane," says Julie Wongbandue, daughter of the late Thongbue Won [...]

China forces its biggest AI platforms to shut down humanlike chatbot personas

ByteDance and Alibaba are shutting down the features that let users build and chat with custom AI companions, responding to new regulations from Beijing.<br /> The article China forces its bigge [...]

Amazon and Chobani adopt Strella's AI interviews for customer research as fast-growing startup raises $14M

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 [...]