June 13, 2025

Powering next-gen services with AI in regulated industries 

Businesses in highly-regulated industries like financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and health care are increasingly turning to AI-powered tools to streamline complex and sensitive tasks. Conversational AI-driven interfaces are helping hospitals to track the location and delivery of a patient’s time-sensitive cancer drugs. Generative AI chatbots are helping insurance customers answer questions and solve problems. And agentic…

OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Codeium for $3B, with news expected later this week

April 16, 2025
Codeium, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant tool Windsurf, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion, Bloomberg reported. If the deal happens, it would put OpenAI in direct competition with a number of other AI coding assistant providers, including Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, which OpenAI backed from […]

Rivian’s first non-Amazon van customer is HelloFresh

April 16, 2025
Meal-kit company HelloFresh has added 70 all-electric Rivian vans to its fleet, the first major customer to buy the commercial EVs since the automaker ended its exclusive deal with Amazon. The 70 all-electric commercial vans represent nearly one quarter of HelloFresh’s fleet, which has already helped the company save an estimated 20,000 gallons of gasoline, […]

How Successful Leaders Get More Done in Less Time

April 16, 2025
The most successful leaders don’t work longer; they manage their time with intention. Here’s how to master time-blocking, prioritization and delegation to get more done in less time.

OpenAI partner says it had relatively little time to test the company’s newest AI models

April 16, 2025
An organization OpenAI frequently partners with to probe the capabilities of its models and evaluate them for safety, Metr, suggests that it wasn’t given much time to evaluate the company’s powerful new releases, o3 and o4-mini. In a blog post published Wednesday, Metr writes that its red teaming of o3 and o4-mini was “conducted in […]

India’s Uber-rival BluSmart appears to suspend service in wake of EV loan probe

April 16, 2025
BluSmart, India’s all-electric cab-hailing startup that was once seen as an emerging rival to Uber, appears to have suspended service in some cities just as the country’s market regulator launched a probe into Gensol Engineering, the publicly listed company that shares two of its co-founders. The cab service, which had been operating in Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, […]