McKinsey Is Using AI to Create PowerPoints and Take Over Junior Employee Tasks: ‘Technology Could Do That’
Over 75% of McKinsey employees now use the internal AI tool Lilli, which safely handles confidential information.
The U.S. Navy is more aggressively telling startups, ‘We want you’
While Silicon Valley executives like those from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI are grabbing headlines for trading their Brunello Cucinelli vests for Army Reserve uniforms, a quieter transformation has been underway in the U.S. Navy. How? Well, the Navy’s Chief Technology Officer Justin Fanelli says he has spent the last two and a half years focused […]
Disney Is Laying Off Hundreds of Workers. Here’s What We Know.
The layoffs span multiple divisions and will affect staff globally.
Former DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg co-leads $15.5M Series A for AI video ad platform
DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg’s venture fund WndrCo co-led a $15.5 million Series A round for Creatify, an AI video ad platform. Creatify’s AdMax platform uses AI to quickly generate dozens of video advertisements, which are geared toward social media marketing — AdMax analyzes high-performing social video campaigns on apps like TikTok and Instagram to shape […]
How I Survived My First Crisis as a CEO — And Rebuilt From Zero
Facing the first major crisis of my career as a CEO, I learned how transparency, empathy and decisive leadership can turn a failing market into a thriving one.
Microsoft Bing gets a free Sora-powered AI video generator
Microsoft Bing announced today that it is introducing the Bing Video Creator to its app, which uses OpenAI’s Sora model to let users generate videos from text prompts. OpenAI, which has a longstanding partnership with Microsoft, has locked down access to Sora‘s video generation for paying customers only. Its integration in Microsoft Bing represents the […]
Snowflake to acquire database startup Crunchy Data
The surge in data company acquisitions continued Monday with Snowflake’s purchase of Crunchy Data. Cloud data platform Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Crunchy Data, a Postgres database partner, late this afternoon. A source familiar with the matter estimated the deal to be worth around $250 million. The terms weren’t disclosed. Snowflake declined to comment […]
Digg’s founders explain how they’re building a site for humans in the AI era
The rebooted version of social site Digg aims to bring back the spirit of the old web.
Chatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feeds
A platform for chatting and roleplaying with AI-generated characters, Character.AI announced on Monday that it is rolling out a slate of multimedia features. These features include AvatarFX, Character.AI’s video-generation model, plus Scenes and Streams, which allow users to use these AI tools to create videos using their characters and then share them on a new […]
‘Every Employee Is on a 4-Day Week’: Here’s How Eliminating a Workday Without Cutting Pay Impacted Hundreds of Businesses
Working one day less per week improved revenue, retention, and employee health, according to a new study.
‘I Had to Go All-in’: Advice From a First-Time Novelist on Writing, Editing and Promoting — And Why He Recorded His Own Audiobook
Filmmaker and author of “THE SPOILS,” Colin Thompson, breaks down the hard work that follows the hard work of writing your first book.