Rising interest rates, investor scrutiny and automation maturity are reshaping what “sustainable growth” really means for businesses. The phrase “sustainable growth” has long been a boardroom favorite—a comforting hybrid of ambition and prudence. But in the wake of the A.I. boom, that phrase has been redefined. The market’s fixation on efficiency, data-driven performance and investor…
What does Heineken, the 160-year-old Dutch brewing company, have in common with San Francisco-based tech startup Friend? Both have jumped into a raucous debate over A.I. companionship—using tongue-in-cheek advertisements plastered across New York City to make their point. In August, Friend launched a $1 million subway campaign promoting its wearable A.I. necklace as a reliable “friend.” The…
Large language models have become some of the most accessible writers on the internet. While their facts might be questionable and their sources non-existent, their formatting is often spot-on. They use clear headings, break up dense text with well-structured paragraphs and write in plain language that’s easy to scan and understand. In many ways, they’ve…
Revising pitchbooks, formatting slides and tweaking font sizes—these are some of the tedious tasks that have long fallen to entry-level investment bankers eager to climb the ladder at Wall Street’s top firms. Now, former staffers across major banks are helping OpenAI train its A.I. to master such grunt work in a bid to expand the…
As Amazon recovers from its recent fumble when an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage caused error pages to pop up across its own site and many others that rely on its cloud services, some unexpected stars have emerged from the rubble. Those visiting Amazon’s 404 error pages are greeted not by the usual dull error…
Shiv Rao, featured on this year’s A.I. Power Index, has built what may be one of the most consequential applications of A.I. in medicine today. A practicing cardiologist turned founder, Rao saw firsthand how much of modern medicine’s burden falls on the complexity of the paperwork surrounding care. After long days with patients, hours of…
It’s hard to imagine a world without Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that for a quarter of a century has stood as one of the enduring staples of the Internet. In recent months, however, the site’s foundation has been shaken by the rise of generative A.I., with Wikipedia attributing an 8 percent decline in human visitors…
At some point during the rapid development of any new technology, consolidation is inevitable. Big players eventually buy out smaller competitors or crowd them out by capturing market share. In the current A.I. boom, large firms are taking this further through a strategy known as an “acqui-hire,” where a company purchases a smaller firm mainly…
The life of an Uber driver often involves stretches of downtime—waiting on ride requests or charging an electric vehicle’s battery. To make the most of those idle moments, Uber is launching a pilot program that allows drivers and couriers to make extra money by completing digital tasks that train A.I. models for Uber’s enterprise clients….
Some of the nation’s largest philanthropic players are banding together with one goal in mind: ensuring Silicon Valley isn’t the only force shaping how A.I. impacts society as the technology becomes increasingly embedded in areas like labor, education and art. The new initiative, called Humanity AI, will see ten foundations commit at least $500 million…
