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This Week in AI: Connected Commerce, Keyboards and the Law
Artificial Intelligence // January 05, 2024

2023 was generative artificial intelligence’s (AI) big launch party — and now we’re in 2024. The year is already shaping up to be one where businesses increasingly leverage the technology to gain new efficiencies. PYMNTS Intelligence spent much of 2023 investigating AI’s enterprise-grade applications, as well as talking with...

AI Startup Perplexity Aims at Google With Personalized Search Engine Subscriptions
artificial intelligence // January 04, 2024

In 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) is keen on making web search more intelligent and streamlined.  But can transformative search experiences that leverage generative AI to help users query and discover insights in new ways actually scale, given the 1,000-pound elephant (Google search) dominating the ecosystem? ...

Report: Prosecutors Want Sam Bankman-Fried’s Bail Revoked
Cryptocurrency // July 26, 2023

Prosecutors reportedly told a judge Wednesday (July 26) that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail should be revoked and he should be sent to prison until his trial. The tipping point, the prosecutors said, was Bankman-Fried’s attempts to discredit Caroline Ellison, his onetime lover and former...

FTC Chair: Immediate AI Regulation Needed to Safely Develop Industry
artificial intelligence // May 03, 2023

Today’s ongoing digital revolution is continually transferring frontier technologies into commercial applications. If a task or process feels routine today, it will likely be the target of an algorithm tomorrow. Nowhere is this more true than in the field of generative artificial intelligence (AI), which...

Quick Reads
Sam Altman: NY Times Lawsuit Not a Priority for OpenAI

January 18, 2024
OpenAI’s chief executive is reportedly unconcerned about a lawsuit by The New York Times against his company. The newspaper sued OpenAI and partner Microsoft late last year, accusing the companies of copyright infringement and claiming they used its content without permission to develop their artificial intelligence product ChatGPT. Speaking Thursday (Jan. 18) at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, […]

Report Says One-Click Startup Bolt Pumped Up Financials

May 11, 2022
One-click checkout firm Bolt might be in trouble even though it had been stunning customers with its fundraising, The New York Times (NYT) wrote Tuesday (May 10). Bolt’s technology is...

Bitcoin Daily: NYT Sells NFT For Over $500,000; Investors Have Poured $90 Million Into NFT...

March 25, 2021
The New York Times (NYT) has sold a non-fungible token (NFT) for more than $500,000, according to the Foundation page for the NFT. Columnist Kevin Roose entered his own column...

New York Times Ends Apple News Partnership

June 30, 2020
The New York Times (NYT) has ended its relationship with Apple News, citing a need to go another way to hopefully glean more traffic on its own website, the paper...