Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’
Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he’s working on AI for research and says AGI is simply misunderstood.
The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns
penAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of to the broader public. The reason: the Trump administration told it to.
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Your Business Is Probably Overspending on Data Storage. Here’s How AI Fixes That.
Up to 30% of data storage budgets are wasted on fear-driven over-provisioning. AI-powered predictive tools provide a solution. Here’s what you should know.
What Growing Startups Get Wrong About CRM Software, and How to Fix It
Why CRM software fails in growing startups and how fixing process, not tools, makes it work.
As YouTube grows on TV, it eyes more interactive video across formats
YouTube’s hiring across roles, partnerships, and a Bengaluru hub shows how it is building out its TV strategy.
Intel Just Signed On to Elon Musk’s Massive AI Chip Project — Here’s What They’ll Be Building
The partnership aims to produce 1 terawatt per year of compute power across two massive chip factories in Texas.
This $500,000 Corporate Retreat to Honduras Went Horribly Wrong. ‘We Had to Eat a Dead Tarantula’
Plex flew 120 employees to a tropical paradise for team building. What followed was a comedy of errors and the CEO hospitalized with E. coli.
The ‘Sneaky’ Ways Companies Are Making You Pay More — Without Raising Prices
As fuel prices spike and supply chain costs surge, businesses are finding creative ways to offset the pain — and not all of them are obvious to customers.
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Atlassian launches visual AI tools and third-party agents in Confluence
Confluence users can now create visual assets within the software in addition to new third-party agents working with Lovable, Replit, and Gamma.
X is rolling out automatic translation and photo editing powered by Grok
New automatic translations and photo editing on X are powered by the company’s flagship AI model.