United Airlines has instituted a policy preventing personal artificial intelligence agents from accessing its systems to complete flight bookings, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal. The decision highlights emerging friction between merchants and automated agentic commerce platforms. While AI agents will still be...
Blackstone has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) chief investment officer that reviews nearly every proposed investment alongside its human deal teams, giving AI a formal role in how the world’s largest alternative asset manager evaluates where to deploy capital. The system uses more than 14...
Meta is replacing a longtime infrastructure executive with a former Amazon Web Services leader as the social media company expands its data center capacity to support its artificial intelligence ambitions. Santosh Janardhan, Meta’s head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering, will leave the company in...
Google is bringing its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) assistant to Apple CarPlay, extending the company’s conversational AI experience to Apple’s in-car platform and giving iPhone users another way to interact with its services hands-free. The global rollout, announced Wednesday (Nov. 11), brings Gemini Live directly...
New York lawmakers want to make violations of artificial intelligence safety rules considerably more expensive. A bill known as RAISE Act 2.0 would charge frontier AI developers, the companies that build the most advanced AI models, by the day for each violation. Under Senate Bill...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul launched a statewide artificial intelligence (AI) research and safety testing initiative on Tuesday (Nov. 10), building independent technical expertise to scrutinize powerful systems as the state prepares to implement its RAISE Act in January. The New York Center for AI...
Analysts for Goldman Sachs are reportedly projecting Anthropic’s revenue will reach $685 billion by 2030. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Nov. 10) from Bloomberg News, which said this figure strengthens the case for a $1.4 trillion valuation target in the artificial intelligence (AI) startup’s...
ByteDance is developing an artificial intelligence agent similar to Meta’s Muse, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Nov. 11). The effort by the Chinese tech giant could close the gap with AI labs in the United States in the coming years, the report said. ByteDance Co-Founder Zhang Yiming...
VerticalScope is using artificial intelligence (AI) to turn conversations across more than 1,200 online communities into shopping revenue, as declining search traffic puts pressure on its traditional advertising business. The Toronto-based company, which operates a Reddit-like network of enthusiast forums containing more than 2 billion...