Author: Advanced AI Editor
U.S. President Donald Trump sits next to Crypto czar David Sacks at the White House Crypto Summit at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025.Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersWhat was meant to be a short-term assignment for venture capitalist David Sacks in President Donald Trump’s White House appears to have stretched into something much bigger, according to leading Democratic lawmakers.Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., have teamed up with a number of other progressive politicians to question whether Sacks has blown past the 130-day limit for Special Government Employees.In a letter delivered Wednesday morning, the…
AIImage: Stitch FixSeptember 17, 2025Stitch Fix, a subscription fashion company, is embracing AI and deploying a new stylist feature.The brand now offers a conversational AI style assistant and AI visualization to inspire discovery, according to a blog post from CEO Matt Baer. The Stylist Connect feature lets clients and stylists connect outside of the Stitch Fix experience.”Shopping for clothing today is undeniably broken, and at Stitch Fix, we’re fixing it. To do so, we’re using the power of AI, 15 years of proprietary data, our algorithms that get smarter with every interaction, and the expertise of our team of stylists…
An analysis found that one-third of generative AI tools, search engines and deep research agents usually make biased claims and can’t correlate information and even provide information that is not backed up by the sources they cite. And even at times, the information is not backed up by reliable sources, and for OpenAI’s GPT 4.5, the figure was even higher, at 47 per cent. Pranav Narayanan Venkit at Salesforce AI Research and his colleagues tested generative AI search engines, including OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 and 5, You.com, Perplexity and Microsoft’s Bing Chat. Alongside this, they put five deep research agents through their…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Retail sales for November and December are projected to grow 4% year over year and surpass $975 billion, according to a holiday report from Bain & Company. In-store sales are expected to grow 2.75% from last year. The strongest gains in store will be seen in apparel and accessories, general merchandise (excluding department stores) and health and personal care, which are projected to grow at least 5%. Growth from non-store sales, which include e-commerce and mail orders, is expected to…
While pure-play quantum stocks offer explosive upside, IBM’s roadmap to fault-tolerant computing by 2029 makes it the safest way to own the quantum revolution. Quantum computing could revolutionize everything from drug discovery to cryptography, with the global market expected to reach $7.3 billion by 2030. Most of today’s headlines focus on pure plays like IonQ and Rigetti Computing, whose prototypes and partnerships generate attention but little revenue and whose stock prices often swing wildly on technical updates. Meanwhile, International Business Machines (IBM 0.52%) has taken a quieter path, booking $1 billion in cumulative quantum business since 2017 and publishing a clear…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Journeys is calling on younger generations to embrace their style unapologetically with the launch of a new brand platform, “Life on Loud,” according to details shared with sister publication Marketing Dive. “Life on Loud” reimagines New Radicals’ 1998 hit “You Get What You Give” with a throwback music video set in a shopping mall and starring singer Gus Dapperton. The video includes appearances from influencers Kitty Lever, Sara Fernandez and Angelina. Made with creative agency Anomaly, the campaign spans social and…
China’s internet regulator has ordered top technology firms to halt purchases of Nvidia artificial intelligence chips and cancel existing orders as part of a broader push to cut reliance on US technology, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday (Sep 17).Shares of the US company were down 1 per cent in premarket trading.Successive US administrations have restricted China’s access to advanced chips, prompting Beijing to press domestic firms to turn away from American suppliers, hitting industry leaders like Nvidia.The move comes days after China accused the company of violating its anti-monopoly law, marking the latest flare-up in the trade war with…
In partnership with Google DeepMind, YouTube is integrating the powerful Veo 3 video generation model directly into Shorts, offering a free and effortless way for millions to create high-quality, AI-generated content. YouTube is set to revolutionize content creation with the launch of Veo 3 Fast, a custom version of Google DeepMind’s state-of-the-art video generation model, now available for free within YouTube Shorts. This move transforms YouTube from a platform for viewing content to an accessible creative powerhouse, enabling users to turn their ideas into cinematic video clips with unprecedented ease. Veo 3 Fast allows users to generate high-quality video clips…
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. For many retailers, second quarter earnings discussions centered around tariff mitigation and consumer sentiment. While both are important concerns, one other theme showed itself as impacting several retailers during the period. Rising costs related to medical and liability claims are hitting the industry at large. And although that was somewhat expected heading into the year, the precise impact has been a bit of a surprise — even for one of the country’s largest retailers. Going into this year, a report from professional…
Critics aren’t convinced by OpenAI’s latest restructuring plan.OpenAI said last week it will hand its nonprofit over $100 billion in stock, or 20% of the company’s latest $500 billion valuation. It’s part of the artificial intelligence giant’s plan to restructure itself — it is technically a nonprofit, not a startup — so it can raise billions more from investors.Dozens of civil society groups, which want to ensure the benefits of AI are spread in the public interest, say they’re pressuring regulators to protect OpenAI’s nonprofit mission. They argue the nonprofit isn’t fully independent from OpenAI and that $100 billion might…