Impact of AI on Workforce and Business: Insights from Glassdoor, Honeywell, and the IMF leaders
AI’s affect on labor and business: Business leaders from Glassdoor, Honeywell, and the IMF discuss All kinds of topics are on the minds of business leaders today, but one in particular has been dominating C-suite conversations this year. CEOs and executives from around the globe gathered at Fortune Global Forum this week in New York […]
Young people prioritize concerns over AI risks over climate change and inequality, new study shows
Teens ranks AI risks as more important than climate change, inequality Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In today’s edition…What teens are saying about AI; Perplexity starts experimenting with ads; Greg Brockman returns to OpenAI; and a Sotheby’s AI art auction blows past expectations. As AI rapidly changes industries, behaviors, and how society functions, […]
Robin AI, a legal tech startup, secures $25 million in Series B Plus funding, highlighting the continued growth of the AI industry.
Legal tech startup Robin AI raises $25 million “Series B Plus” round—and what that says about the AI boom Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this newsletter…why a legal AI startup shows there’s more to the AI boom than just foundation models; Zoox starts offering robotaxi rides in San Francisco; it’s worryingly easy […]
Advancements in Robotic Surgery Accelerated by ChatGPT-Powered AI
Robotic surgery is getting better fast thanks to the same type of AI that powers ChatGPT Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this week’s edition…LLMs pave the way for autonomous robotic surgery; Apple Intelligence is released for the iPhone; The U.K. government launches a chatbot; AI workers seek whistleblower protections; and generative AI […]
ChatGPT debuts a new search engine, sparking a potential rivalry with Google in the AI-driven internet realm.
ChatGPT releases a search engine, an opening salvo in a brewing war with Google for dominance of the AI-powered internet ChatGPT has launched a search engine, breaking into the market that for decades has been dominated by—and synonymous with—Google. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced “ChatGPT Search” on Thursday. This version of the popular chatbot […]
India’s Central Bank Governor Cautions Against AI ‘Opacity’ in Financial Sector
India Central Bank Head Warns of AI ‘Opacity’ in Finance The head of India’s central bank is warning about AI use in financial services. Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das said Monday (Oct. 14) that the increased usage of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in the financial world can trigger stability risks, requiring proper risk […]
Wolf, the cofounder of Hugging Face, explains why the advantages of open-source AI outweigh the potential risks
Hugging Face cofounder Wolf on why open-source AI’s benefits outweigh the risks In this edition…a Hugging Face cofounder on the importance of open source…a Nobel Prize for Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield…a movie model from Meta…a Trump ‘Manhattan Project’ for AI? Hello, and welcome to Eye on AI. Yesterday, I had the privilege of moderating […]
Big AI Dominates as Startups Bow Out of Race to Develop Massive Language Models
Big AI thins out the competition as startups quit the race to build large language models Hello and welcome to Eye on AI! In this edition…Big tech increasingly squeezes startups out of the generative AI market; an AI-discovered cancer drug begins clinical trials; another OpenAI cofounder joins Anthropic; and spend on LLMs booms (though still only […]
California Leads in AI Regulation, Despite Governor Newsom’s Uncertainty on SB1047
California is leading the way on AI regulation—but Governor Gavin Newsom is still unsure about SB1047 Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…California takes the reins on AI regulation, LinkedIn quietly starts training its AI on user data, and new research shows how generative AI is guzzling up water and electricity on […]
Sam Altman is quoted as saying that leaving Stanford was not a risk
Sam Altman says dropping out of Stanford wasn’t risky For OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, dropping out of college to launch his first startup, Loopt, wasn’t as big a risk as it might seem. In fact, in Altman’s telling, the decision to leave Stanford in 2005 was not particularly calculated, but rather somewhat unexpected. “This was […]