For all the attention paid to enterprise artificial intelligence strategy, adoption is not spreading evenly across the organization. According to findings shared in the August 2026 edition of The Enterprise AI Benchmark Report, a PYMNTS Intelligence original, the most important dividing line may not be...
Hyundai Motor Group said in an Aug. 12 press release that artificial intelligence (AI) has cut the time its engineers spend searching for and reviewing historical crash test cases by 90%, a measurable example of how AI can speed up industrial work without replacing the...
OpenAI “will be a public company in 2027,” if not sooner, Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar told employees Wednesday (Aug. 19) during an all-hands meeting, CNBC reported, citing unnamed sources. Friar said OpenAI could make its public debut this year if “our business continues to...
OpenAI told the public on Tuesday that it is deliberately slowing down. “As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow,” the company said in its own post. “We wanted to take the time necessary to meet those...
Earlier this month, the White House hosted artificial intelligence companies to discuss a new framework for testing their technology. More than two weeks later, the companies said they are still not clear on what that framework will entail, The Information reported Wednesday (Aug. 19). The...
Artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Fei-Fei Li is reportedly warning that backlash to the tech threatens global technological advancement. In an interview with Bloomberg News published Wednesday (Aug. 19), Li stressed that the U.S. needs to serve as a role model and demonstrate what she described...
For six hours in late July, Jerry Falade had one of the biggest debut deals in publishing. Fourteen publishers had bid on his crime novel, “Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body,” and Minotaur Books, an imprint of Macmillan US, won the auction at a reported...
The robots aren’t just coming. They are already here, across factory floors and logistics yards. North American companies ordered 8,940 robots worth $622 million in the second quarter, up 4.3% in units and 21.3% in revenue from a year earlier. Firms like FedEx, for example,...
The Food and Drug Administration is considering whether some generative artificial intelligence medical devices should have to demonstrate competence much as physicians do before treating patients. The agency on Tuesday (Aug. 18) released a discussion paper seeking public input on how it should assess the risks, safety and effectiveness of generative...