What makes Palantir's story stand out is that it is no longer just a government contractor; it has become the go-to AI platform for companies that want to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) in their businesses right away. The key is its Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), which gathers and organizes a customer's messy data into a clean structure that large language models can better work with, helping significantly reduce AI hallucinations.
And over in the ad tech world, there have been huge shifts, too, notably with the rise of AI infiltrating everything from campaign optimization to creative. AdLib is "fully embracing and exploring" new uses for AI, Hauptman said, but it's not going to be a seamless transition for the industry. There will be "some conflicting incentives and some friction" before the industry is on a unified page, with a shared understanding of the best way to use these new tools.
We're not in the business of making financial recommendations, but CNBC personality Jim Cramer says there's no bubble coming for the AI sector - which, given his track record, should probably make any AI investors just a bit nervous. Now that Cramer - whose calls have historically underperformed so much that he inspired an entire phenomenon of people betting against him, called the " Inverse Cramer " effect - has chimed in on the topic, netizens are worried about an imminent collapse.
The most notable feature revealed at the event was "Familiar Faces," which uses AI to identify friends and family. Users can enroll the faces of their loved ones into the device, enabling Ring to alert them when it recognizes a visitor. The AI will also alert the user when an unfamiliar person is detected, helping them to make an informed decisions quickly.
Shares of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) lost 2.94% over the past five trading sessions after losing 1.56% the five prior. The stock continues to struggle in the aftermath of tech's early August sell-off that saw AMZN fall by nearly 10% in one day. Still, the e-commerce and cloud storage solutions giant finds itself in the green this year with a year-to-date gain of 0.41%. Over the past year, Amazon is up 18.67%.
"One of the things we are seeing with AI is that it makes things too easy. We are seeing a decrease in willingness to struggle through hard things in this newer generation of employees," Kryscynski said. "If you want to stand out in the future workforce, then avoid offloading your thinking to AI and purposefully invest in challenging tasks that will challenge your brain to connect complex ideas, wrestle with moral ambiguities."
On Thursday at an internal town hall, BNY CEO Robin Vince unveiled the next-generation version of Eliza, its AI platform that allows employees to create bespoke agents and carry out tasks such as accelerated check processing built on reams of company data. "We think of AI as generating capacity for us," Vince said at the town hall. According to a BNY spokesperson, 98% of the company's employees are trained on generative AI, with the majority using Eliza daily.
At McKinsey, recruits rotate across industries and geographies, dissecting sprawling problems and creating and defending solutions before skeptical executives. General Electric built its reputation on world-class management programs that groomed future chiefs through exacting operating roles. PepsiCo and Procter & Gamble are legendary for giving young managers full P&L responsibility early and demanding sharp marketing instincts. JPMorgan Chase exposes rising leaders to complex global markets, risk management, and high-stakes client relationships.
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman Apple is testing Siri's upcoming revamp using an internal chatbot called Veritas. The company's struggles as it tries to keep pace in the AI race are no secret. The next-gen Siri has been delayed multiple times and the debut of Apple Intelligence was met with a tepid response. Veritas gives Apple the ability to quickly develop, test, and collect feedback on new Siri features like "search[ing] through personal data... and perform[ing] in-app actions like editing photos."
The feature leverages AI to translate millions of IoT data points into clear, actionable insights for operations and procurement teams, compressing days of analysis and synthesis work down to a matter of seconds. The agentic AI application ensures repeated synthesis of high-volume data to identify patterns and trends across four key areas: asset location, utilization, alerts, and general status updates, as well as sensor readings from monitoring devices.
Musk is now driving Tesla into its next stage of growth as 'wartime CEO,' and we expect Robotaxis to be rolled out aggressively to over 30 US cities within the next year. We estimate the AI and autonomous opportunity is worth at least $1 trillion alone for Tesla, and we fully expect under a Trump White House over the coming yea,r these key initiatives will now get fast-tracked
For repetitive tasks or errands, it makes sense for some people to hire a helping hand for the price of $50 or $60 an hour-or even cheaper if you enlist the services of AI. And while there's only so much someone who isn't employed by your company can do for you when it comes to work matters, there's still plenty they can do otherwise that could help your work-life balance.
Digital tools have helped to level the playing field: 82% of small businesses attribute their revenue growth directly to digital ads, and 79% say these tools help them compete with much larger companies. Through tools like Google Ads, Business Profile and Merchant Center, we can bring the best of AI to support these businesses by streamlining their advertising efforts and helping them to stand out to customers.
The Drum Live 2025 is now in full swing - two days of debate and comment that bring our audience into the live workings of The Drum. In this live showdown of machine minds, we put four of the world's leading AI platforms (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude) through their paces. Forget the research papers. How about testing AI's marketing capabilities live on stage? In this session at The Drum Live, we have four large language models battling it out, responding to a series of marketing prompts to see which could deliver the sharpest ideas with the least amount of jargon.
In case it hasn't been obvious enough, The Morning Show makes clear in "The Revolution Will Be Televised" that the dynamic shared between the series and its audience is very much the audience going "this show is insane, what could be more batshit than this?" and The Morning Show going "hold my beer." And then it does something like have the Iranian government go after Alex Levy with deepfakes.
In a session overflowing with experience and hard-won lessons, he will share his unvarnished take on the world 15 years from now - a future he believes will be defined by unprecedented abundance, massive job displacement, and transformational change across every sector. This is advice entrepreneurs need to hear - not just what they want to hear - to build enduring companies in turbulent times.
Smart thermostat company Tado is launching new AI-powered features that aim to help users heat their homes more efficiently. Tado says the AI Assist update builds on the company's existing Auto Assist options by introducing "advanced machine-learning" that "learns, predicts, and optimizes" heating in real time. AI Assist is available in Europe and the UK today for all Tado X owners at the same price as the company's existing subscription (£29.99 a year or £3.99 per month).
GAIA is revolutionising the legal industry with AI that automates legal work and empowers legal professionals to work more efficiently and effectively. We're building the future of legal technology, and we are looking for a driven, versatile person to help accelerate our growth. The Role We're looking for a determined Intern to work directly with our Head of Sales, Erika Root, to be at the forefront of driving our growth.
It's an unfortunate use of advanced technologies, the same ones that are being used to detect and counter misinformation online. It's bad enough that we're having a hard time discerning true from false content, but what if the fake news is tailored specifically for you so that you're the most likely to believe it and consequently share it? Personalised disinformation is the next wave in darkly creative misapplication of technology, and here's how it can work.
With so much going on in the city's thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space. We keep you abreast of the things that you may have missed in NYC Tech News for the week ending 9/20 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC startup events featuring news for eighteen companies including Chestnut Carbon, Tabs, GreenLite, and much, much more. Chestnut Carbon - $90M Series B Extension Carbon Removal Chestnut Carbon, a developer of carbon removal solutions, has raised $90M as a Series B extension led by CPP Investments.
Despite the stock market's incredible September surge, IPO season has been relatively tame, at least compared to the first half. Undoubtedly, it may come as a bit of a surprise to some to witness StubHub (NYSE:STUB) dropping immediately out of the gate, especially when you consider the secular trends surrounding live experiences. Either way, I think the initial disappointment could set the stage for a shining buying opportunity at some point down the road.
ExchangeWire's The Wires Awards recognises the most innovative individuals and players in the ad tech space, with our categories spanning ad campaigns and strategy, data and solutions, AI, measurement, commerce, partnerships, and more. For our judging panel, we've gathered a range of experts to represent the industry, including individuals from publishers, brands, agencies. Businesses include The Telegraph, Havas Media Network, Condé Nast, Warner Bros. Discovery, the7stars, Adidas, 4Sales, and The Coca-Cola Company, among many others.
Alphabet is the parent company of Google, Google's subsidiary YouTube and Waymo, among other businesses. Despite concerns that artificial intelligence chatbots would pull traffic away from Google Search, those fears appear to be overblown. Alphabet reported that over 2 billion people were using its AI Overviews during the second quarter, and Google Search generated a record $54.2 billion in revenue during Q2, up 11.7% from the year-ago period.
"I'm not a big buzzword person," she tells me in our sit-down interview. "You sometimes lose credibility when you use it [AI] too much. What I like about what we're doing is that we're actually doing things, products that are already shipping, that you can use, right now." Diana points to tools like Flow Studio and MotionMaker, both live and used in production on TV shows and films, designed to solve real-world bottlenecks.
One recent prompting session yielded this: As much as 28% of the benchmark MSCI World Index is now IT companies. "That's huge. Number two is banking and financial services, 10 percentage points lower," the CFO said. He also likes to ask Perplexity which companies have the largest 10 market caps in the world. "Nine of them are tech companies and Broadcom recently threw out Berkshire Hathaway," Asam said. "In 1980, it was just IBM. So software does eat the world."
It is not often that the CEO of a billion-dollar company openly admits that his company deliberately created obstacles for customers. We did not entirely expect his answer. "We were a bit closed," said Eschenbacher. So Workday deliberately made it difficult to extract data. "We were nervous that they would extract it, put it in a cloud data warehouse, and then bypass us by running an application or AI on top of the data."
AI is powering a new industrial revolution and reinventing every layer of the computing stack - from silicon to systems to software. At the heart of this reinvention is NVIDIA's CUDA architecture. This historic collaboration tightly couples NVIDIA's AI and accelerated computing stack with Intel's CPUs and the vast x86 ecosystem - a fusion of two world-class platforms. Together, we will expand our ecosystems and lay the foundation for the next era of computing,