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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…
Search engine Google’s feature that shows brief summaries generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) illegally uses other people’s journalism, thus reducing traffic to websites that create that original content, a top media company has said in its lawsuit in the US against the tech giant. Google has said that AI overviews offer a better experience to users, and the summaries also send traffic to a wider variety of websites.(Reuters) The case filed by Penske Media — owner of outlets such as Rolling Stone, Billboard and Variety — in a federal court in Washington, DC, is the first time a major American…
ChatGPT developer OpenAI announced new teen safety features Tuesday, including an age-prediction system and ID age verification in some countries.In a blog post, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described the struggles of balancing OpenAI’s priorities of freedom and safety, saying: “We prioritize safety ahead of privacy and freedom for teens; this is a new and powerful technology, and we believe minors need significant protection.”Altman wrote that the company was working to build a system that would try to automatically sort users into one of two separate versions of ChatGPT: One for adolescents 13 to 17, and one for adults 18 and…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 38-year-old Emily Fontaine, the global head of venture capital at IBM. She leads IBM Ventures and oversees the company’s $500 million Enterprise AI Venture Fund. Fontaine is based in Washington, DC, and New York City and has worked at IBM for nearly 15 years in a variety of roles. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I spent a year teaching history and politics at a prep school in Connecticut before starting at IBM, and my nearly 15-year journey here has put me in several mission-critical roles, like working as the AI…
On Tuesday, YouTube introduced new tools for podcasters at its Made on YouTube live event in New York, including new ways to turn video podcasts into clips and YouTube Shorts and a new feature that helps create videos for audio-only podcasters. Both will be powered by AI and will roll out in the months ahead. Using AI technology, video podcast creators in the U.S. will be able to create clips more easily with AI suggestions, the company says. This will be available in the “coming months,” while a feature that will transform those clips into YouTube Shorts will arrive early…
By Jim Chiang, Docgility. The CLM Reality Check If you’ve been to any legal tech conference lately, you’ve probably heard the horror stories. Conversations either revolve around AI or tales of CLM implementations gone wrong. Traditional CLM systems often promise the world but deliver disappointment – poor user adoption, metrics that don’t improve, and rollouts that never quite make it company-wide. When things go south, the finger-pointing starts. Tech vendors blame the business side, citing culture issues, poor integration, or lack of ‘readiness’. But here’s the thing: there are some real technology problems that make success really hard. So what’s…
C3.ai, Inc. (NYSE:AI) is one of the AI Stocks in the Spotlight for Investors. On September 12, UBS analyst Radi Sultan raised the price target on the stock to $17.00 (from $16.00) while maintaining a Neutral rating. The firm said that it “remains on the sidelines” on the AI software provider due to limited visibility into the range of outcomes for FY27 growth. The firm projects an estimated 16.5% growth while investor estimates range from no growth to mid-20s growth. Discussing the company’s Q1 weakness, the firm noted that it was largely due to execution failures around several large deals instead…
Making high-quality ASMR content traditionally can be a challenge. Real ASMR videos require perfect mic technique, soft sounds, and careful editing, which beginners often find difficult. To solve this issue, AI-generated ASMR offers a creative shortcut. With text prompts and AI tools, you can now script and assemble soothing videos without recording every sound yourself. This approach bypasses many filming hurdles and sparks new creative possibilities with gentle whispering and ambient triggers. Several tools are available online and offline to help you create ASMR videos generated by AI. Read on to discover how to create your own AI ASMR videos…
Out of Fireworks and into the fire However, my start with Cerebras’s hosted Qwen was not the same as what I experienced (for a lot more money) on Fireworks, another provider. Initially, Cerebras’s Qwen didn’t even work in my CLI. It also didn’t seem to work in Roo Code or any other tool I knew how to use. After taking a bug report, Cerebras told me it was my code. My same CLI that worked on Fireworks, for Claude, for GPT-4.1 and GPT-5, for o3, for Qwen hosted by Qwen/Alibaba was at fault, said Cerebras. To be fair, my log…