Microsoft is adding a buy button to its Copilot chatbot, the company said Thursday, making it the latest AI app to allow users to make purchases without leaving the chatbot window. The company said that shoppers will be able to purchase from retailers including Urban Outfitters and Etsy. Shopify ... Read more ›
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It seems like these days, every big e-commerce and AI company is racing to figure out how to make AI agents that can shop just like a human. In the case of Amazon, the company’s version of AI-powered shopping is becoming widespread enough to step on other retailers’ toes—evidence that it’s pulling ahead in the nascent market.Earlier this week, Amazon sparked blowback from some small retailers that noticed they were... Read more ›
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Snowflake announced Thursday that it agreed to acquire app monitoring startup Observe Inc. The Information earlier reported that the two companies were in talks about a possible deal. Terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed. The Information previously reported that Snowflake would pay around ... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s official foray into health, unveiled in this post on Wednesday, has been a long time coming, as we explained last summer. In short, OpenAI is creating a special section of ChatGPT for customers to ask health-related questions and dump data from their personal health apps and wearable devices to get personalized advice. The features are in a trial phase with a subset of paid users for now. (See our... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s efforts to turn ChatGPT into a go-to personal shopper are off to a slow start. Challenges with wrangling product data mean in-app checkouts aren’t yet widely available to the millions of shops that OpenAI said in September would soon be coming to ChatGPT. OpenAI and its early partners, Shopify and Stripe, have been working on ways to better standardize and share merchants’ product information in order to expand the... Read more ›
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The Chinese government has in recent days told companies to temporarily halt plans to buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, throwing up a possible roadblock in Nvidia’s hopes of restarting chip sales to one of its biggest markets, The Information reported on Wednesday. The instruction came roughly a month ... Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang must feel like a child whose parents are perpetually at war. Weeks after he glimpsed a chance to resume sales of AI chips to China—thanks to approval from President Donald Trump—China has said, “Not so fast.” As our Hong Kong reporter Qianer Liu scooped today, the Chinese government has asked local tech companies to temporarily halt any plans to buy Nvidia’s H200 chips. China may yet... Read more ›
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OpenAI last fall set aside an employee stock grant pool worth 10% of the company, which was valued in October at $500 billion, according to two people with knowledge of the plans. The $50 billion pool of restricted stock units should last for roughly five years and should rise in value as the company’s private share price continues to increase. The employee stock grant pool, which hasn’t previously been reported,... Read more ›
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Microsoft executive Jennifer Weitzel, who oversaw the firm’s development of data centers for AI, left the company less than a year after starting her second stint at the company, according to someone with knowledge of the departure and her LinkedIn profile. Weitzel led the engineering, ... Read more ›
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Google’s parent Alphabet on Wednesday passed Apple in market capitalization to become the second most valuable company in the world, worth $3.885 trillion, compared to Apple’s value of $3.846 trillion. Nvidia, worth $4.595 trillion, is far and away the most valuable firm. Google shares have been ... Read more ›
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Several of Elon Musk’s legal claims against OpenAI will go to a jury trial, the judge overseeing the lawsuit said in a federal courtroom in Oakland, Calif. on Wednesday. The trial is scheduled for the spring. Lawyers for OpenAI had asked the court to dismiss the claims on legal grounds, but ... Read more ›
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The chatbot startup Character.AI and Google have reached agreements to settle multiple lawsuits brought by families who alleged that Character’s chatbots contributed to their children killing or harming themselves, according to court papers filed this week. In the highest profile case, Megan ... Read more ›
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The Trump family-founded crypto venture World Liberty Financial has applied to the federal government for a national trust bank charter, the company said in a statement. The easing regulatory landscape for crypto firms ushered in by the second Trump administration has spurred a number of ... Read more ›
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JPMorgan has struck a deal to replace Goldman Sachs as the provider of Apple’s credit card program, The Wall Street Journal reported. The largest U.S. bank will take over about $20 billion in customer balances from Goldman at a slight discount, which is rare for branded credit card programs, the ... Read more ›
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Intel shares jumped around 10% today after one of its executives revealed yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show that the chipmaker is developing a bespoke gaming chip and software for mobile gaming devices, according to Yahoo Finance. It’s not clear exactly what investors are reacting ... Read more ›
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European data center developer Global Technical Realty raised $1.9 billion from private investment firms KKR and Oak Hill Capital as it looks to expand across the continent. KKR invested $1.5 billion in the round of funding, mostly from its Global Infrastructure strategy, the firm said ... Read more ›
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In its push to make ChatGPT a “personal super assistant” and stay ahead of rivals, OpenAI is developing new features that aim to turn the chatbot into a personal health hub. One feature would let people use ChatGPT to analyze data contained in their personal health apps and wearable devices, such as an Oura ring, Apple Watch or Whoop bracelet, according to two people who have seen designs for the... Read more ›
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Anthropic has told potential investors it is planning to raise $10 billion at a valuation of $350 billion, according to a person familiar with the discussions. The valuation nearly doubles that of its last round in September. Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and Coatue Management are planning ... Read more ›
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Before we get to today‘s column, you should check out our scoop this morning that the Chinese government has asked local companies to hold off ordering Nvidia’s H200 chips. It‘s the latest move in the geopolitical chess match that governs Nvidia’s China business. Meanwhile, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has finally given investors a partial explanation for his company’s $20 billion Christmas Eve shocker deal to hire the team behind AI... Read more ›
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What’s the best way for an individual to invest in AI? That’s what some relatives asked me over the holidays. The question is particularly relevant right now. Anthropic could go public this year, and OpenAI could follow, meaning individual investors could have access to two of the rare pure-play AI stocks. That would be a big change from right now, when the only way to invest in some of the... Read more ›
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