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Ex-OpenAI Prodigy Turns $1.5B Hedge Fund Into AI Bet
August 12, 2025

A former OpenAI researcher with no professional investing experience has founded an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that reportedly now manages $1.5 billion in assets. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

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Anthropic Offers Claude to US Government Workers for $1
August 12, 2025

Anthropic on Tuesday (Aug. 12) said it would offer its Claude chatbot to all three branches of the U.S. government for $1 per agency for one year. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

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5 Ways OpenAI’s GPT-5 Is Supercharging ChatGPT for Users
August 11, 2025

OpenAI’s latest rollout of GPT-5 as the default artificial intelligence (AI) model for ChatGPT brings with it several new capabilities that can power up productivity for business and personal users. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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Rakuten Puts ‘Brain Twin’ AI at Center of Retail Ecosystem
August 11, 2025

Japanese eCommerce giant Rakuten is embedding its next-generation agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platform across its ecosystem, aiming to transform its own operations while equipping merchants with advanced new capabilities. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

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Vibe Coding: How SMBs Can Build AI Apps Using Plain Language
August 11, 2025

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Lights, Camera, Input: Film Festival Celebrates ‘Authentic’ Emotion Generated by AI
August 09, 2025

A new kind of filmmaker is set to walk the red carpet at this year’s Venice film festival: human creators who embrace artificial intelligence in their work. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

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Pinterest CEO Says Consumers Benefit From AI-Powered Tools
August 08, 2025

Pinterest CEO Bill Ready said Friday (Aug. 8) that it will be some time before consumers are ready to let artificial intelligence (AI) agents do their shopping for them, but that Pinterest is providing AI-powered tools that will “meet the user where they are” in the...

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Stanford AI Agents’ Lab Finds Promising COVID-19 Drug Leads in Days
August 08, 2025

Like any busy scientist, Stanford University professor James Zou would like to explore hundreds of research ideas but only has time for two or three. So he thought of a novel approach: Create artificial intelligence (AI) agents modeled after his lab and let them tackle...

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This Week in AI: ChatGPT Gets an Upgrade; Expedia Embraces AI
August 08, 2025

From the release of GPT-5 to travel platform Expedia implementing artificial intelligence throughout its business to rental car companies using the tech to assess damage to rentals, here are this week’s top AI stories. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...