Author: Advanced AI Editor
The executives leading the product and engineering efforts for OpenAI’s developer platform say companies must adopt a result-oriented approach to successfully roll out AI to employees.Olivier Godement and Sherwin Wu head product and engineering for OpenAI’s developer platform, respectively. During an interview on the BG2 podcast that aired Thursday, Godement and Wu shared three tips on how companies can integrate AI.”Number one is the interesting combination of top-down buy-in and enabling a very clear group, like a tiger team,” Godement said. He added that the team could be a mix of staff from AI providers like OpenAI, as well as…
Google Gemini’s Nano Banana AI tool’s 3D models have become a viral trend. However, to bring these 3D figurines that have been created from photos to life, users will need a video generator. While many popular generators like Google’s Veo 3 and OpenAI’s Sora are behind a paywall, free alternatives like Grok allow users to animate their images. The Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model, which is now popular as Nano Banana, has gained attention for its ability to perform complex edits with natural language prompts while maintaining visual consistency. Users are applying the tool to a range of creative tasks,…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has assured TSLA investors that he would be enhancing his security detail. Musk’s comments were posted on X in the aftermath of the slaying of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. Aggressive critics Kirk was slain during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University as part of Turning Point USA’s first event on a tour of college campuses, as noted in a Politico report. Kirk was a notable voice in the conservative movement and a close ally of the Trump administration, which led to aggressive critics openly wishing him harm. Elon Musk, due to his contributions to the…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology investigating after hateful imagery found on campusThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is investigating hateful messages and images that appeared on campus over the past week, which the school’s president says were disturbing and promoted violence.The investigation comes in the wake of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah last week, although MIT President Sally Kornbluth clarified that the messages are not connected to the shooting.“Such corrosive incidents have become commonplace in our society, and they can invite violence. Together, we must make sure they have no place at MIT,” Kornbluth…
As a $4.3 trillion company, Nvidia has the financial resources to invest in a lot of startups. Lately, it’s had the motivation to do so too. So far this year, the chip designer and most highly valued U.S. public company has made at least 42 investments in private companies, either directly or through its NVentures venture arm, per Crunchbase data. That’s up slightly from the year-ago period, which was already unusually busy. As illustrated below, Nvidia wasn’t always such a prolific startup investor. The chip giant began picking up the pace in 2023, and so far it hasn’t looked back.…
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Fashion retailer Primark is growing its brick-and-mortar footprint in the United States, according to a Wednesday announcement. The international retailer has signed 18 leases, four of which are new, and will enter into Minnesota for the first time. The expansion announcement is part of Primark marking a decade in the U.S. The company opened its first location in Boston in 2015 and currently has 33 stores across the country. Dive Insight: Primark is celebrating 10 years in America with more locations. …
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (formerly Beyond Inc.) has completed a $10 million acquisition of Kirkland’s Home trade name and brand assets from The Brand House Collective, according to a Monday press release. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. previously said it would acquire the intellectual property assets for $5 million, per a May filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. did not immediately respond to Retail Dive’s request for comment. With the completion of the deal,…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: VF Corp. has an agreement to sell its Dickies workwear brand to Bluestar Alliance for $600 million in cash, the apparel conglomerate announced on Monday. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the year, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, the company said. Dickies has struggled, though declines there moderated during the most recent quarter. Dive Insight: As its turnaround drags on, VF Corp. has been steadily unloading its less well-performing brands, and Dickies is…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Consumer sentiment slumped in September for the second consecutive month, dragged down by worries about job security, price pressures and the outlook for U.S. business, the University of Michigan said Friday, describing survey results. “Consumers perceive risks to their pocketbooks,” Joanne Hsu, director of the university’s consumer surveys, said in a statement. “Trade policy remains highly salient to consumers, with about 60% of consumers providing unprompted comments about tariffs during interviews.” Long-run inflation expectations rose to 3.9% from 3.5% last…
There are a lot of folks in the community saying that implementing structured data / schema on your pages will help you with AI Search visibility. But few have really tested it until now. And those few tests show that adding structured data / schema does not help with your visibility in AI search, at least not yet.The first to test this was Mark Williams-Cook who posted on LinkedIn an experiment he conducted where he posted a “visual explanation of why your favourite LLM does not use schema in their core training data.” He explained how when the LLMs process…