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Inside the AI web search wars

by Matt Levin
Jan 30, 2025
AI-powered Google competitors are trying to figure out how to grab search revenue without losing users who are wary of advertising.
Technology companies are racing to develop AI-backed search engines.
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Who's ahead in the AI arms race — Microsoft? Google? Meta?

by Matt Levin
Dec 16, 2024
The early technological lead OpenAI had is fading, as Google and Meta continue to release and iterate competing AI products.
The early technological lead that OpenAI had on the generative AI front is fading.
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Increasingly, small businesses are adopting AI

by Elizabeth Trovall
Dec 4, 2024
Large businesses tend to lead the pack in AI adoption, but very small businesses have also been using AI at relatively high rates.
Artificial intelligence can do simple tasks that would otherwise require expensive manpower. That's one reason small business AI use is growing.
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Are people using AI as much as we thought (or feared) they would?

by Matt Levin
Nov 22, 2024
Next week it'll be two years since the debut of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Generative AI has developed a lot since then, though some people are still wary of it.
Tech has been quicker to use AI than other sectors. Above, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks at his company's first conference for software developers.
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More consumers are planning to use generative AI for holiday shopping

by Corinne Ruff
Nov 13, 2024
Amazon and Walmart are both touting AI chatbots as a convenient way to shop this holiday season. But will it really change the way we buy?
It's the first holiday season for Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping assistant, which launched in February.
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Skills Gap

AI is teaching humans to human at work

by Elizabeth Trovall
Sep 30, 2024
As the role of soft skills shifts amid evolving technology, that tech — especially generative AI — can be a tool to both train and assess soft skills.
“[Chatbots] have infinite patience, and they have also been hammered with training to be polite and agreeable,” said sociologist Jason Jeffrey Jones.
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Ad spending is climbing, thanks to tireless consumers — and artificial intelligence

by Caleigh Wells
Jun 11, 2024
AI promises to improve ad targeting. It can also generate content tailored to individuals.
Artificial intelligence could inform more than 94% of ad spending before the end of the decade, a GroupM report says.
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The secret to using AI at work? "More chat and less bot."

by David Brancaccio , Alex Schroeder and Natalie White
Mar 20, 2024
Kian Gohar, AI researcher and CEO of Geolab, discusses his latest research on the impact of generative AI on teams in the workplace.
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Need to get a grip on AI? There are classes for that.

by Matt Levin
Mar 14, 2024
"In 2023, someone enrolled on Coursera in [generative] AI content every minute," the company's chief content officer says.
Jules White, an AI instructor with Coursera, says most of his courses are designed to get users excited about how to amplify their own creativity with AI, not just how to automate tedious tasks.
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Will chipmaker Nvidia's earnings report be blockbuster? Or super-blockbuster?

by Mitchell Hartman
Feb 21, 2024
Nvidia reports its Q4 financial results after markets close on Wednesday. The chipmaker has forecast major revenue gains thanks to generative AI.
Nvidia forecast it would hit $59 billion in revenue for 2023 — double what it brought in in 2022.
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