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Perplexity AI launching $50 million venture fund to back early-stage startups

Perplexity AI is getting ready to launch a $50 million fund focused on pre-seed and seed artificial intelligence startups in the U.S., CNBC has learned.

CNBC - 2d

OpenAI expands Deep Research access to Plus users, heating up AI agent wars with DeepSeek and Claude

OpenAI expands Deep Research AI agent to ChatGPT users, intensifying competition with DeepSeek and Anthropic.

VentureBeat - 2d

Amazon bets savings from automation can help fuel AI spending boom

US tech giant expected to spend as much as $25bn on warehouse automation in broader efficiency drive

Financial Times - 2d

'The knowledge economy is on the way out.' These are the skills workers will need in the age of AI, says LinkedIn

Skills such as creativity, curiosity, courage, compassion and communication will be key as AI continues to disrupt workforces, said LinkedIn's Aneesh Raman.

CNBC - 2d

Hume launches new text-to-speech model Octave that generates custom AI voices with adjustable emotions

Hume emphasized its Octave TTS pricing is around half the cost of the competing offering from AI voice creation startup ElevenLabs.

VentureBeat - 2d

Christie's AI art auction draws big-money bids — and thousands of protests signatures

Christie's, known for selling fine art, luxury goods, and antiques — opened “Augmented Intelligence” on Feb. 20. The sale of AI art has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in bids.

NBC News - 2d

As many as 41% of employers plan to use AI to replace roles—but it’s not a 'jobs apocalypse,' experts say

A recent survey says that as many as 41% of employers are considering downsizing due to AI. What is the outlook for employees?

CNBC - 2d

Qualcomm and Nokia Bell Labs show how multiple-vendor AI models can work together in wireless networks

Qualcomm and Nokia Bell Labs showed how multiple-vendor AI models can work together in an interoperable way in wireless networks.

VentureBeat - 2d

Amazon unveils revamped Alexa with AI features for $19.99 per month, free for Prime members

Amazon has been working for years to overhaul Alexa with generative AI features as it faced rising competition from OpenAI's ChatGPT and other chatbots.

CNBC - 2d

AI’s power demands spark new joint GE Vernova–NRG electricity plant project

NRG flags need for new partnerships to fuel power development.

MarketWatch - 1d

Eli Lilly's stock recovery chugs along, and Amazon's AI strategy adds a new pillar

Every weekday, the Investing Club releases the Homestretch; an actionable afternoon update just in time for the last hour of trading.

CNBC - 1d

Slack Imagines a Future Workplace Where You Chat More With AIs Than With Your Colleagues

We’re all used to digital forums for workplace discussions—but what if some of your chatty coworkers were really AIs, not real people?

Inc. - 1d

DOGE Staffers at HUD Are From an AI Real Estate Firm and a Mobile Home Operator

Elon Musk's men at HUD come from the real estate sector. They have access to vast stores of personal and financial data—and control over who can access which HUD systems.

Wired - 1d

Hugging Face launches FastRTC to simplify real-time AI voice and video apps

Hugging Face's new FastRTC library enables Python developers to build real-time voice and video AI applications in just a few lines of code.

VentureBeat - 1d

Nvidia beats Wall Street expectations in first earnings after debut of DeepSeek AI

Investors will be eyeing firm’s financials for signs of slowing demand after revelation high-end chips not necessary. Nvidia surpassed investor expectations for the fourth quarter of 2024 with a ...

The Guardian - 1d

Value investor Bill Nygren explains why Nvidia isn’t the best AI stock to own now

Look at companies that use AI effectively — not AI hardware manufacturers — Oakmark Fund manager says.

MarketWatch - 1d

Rebuilding Alexa: How Amazon is mixing models, agents and browser-use for smarter AI

In rearchitecting the upgraded Alexa voice assistant, Amazon turned to model mixing to bring agentic capabilities to devices.

VentureBeat - 1d

Microsoft’s new Phi-4 AI models pack big performance in small packages

Microsoft's new Phi-4 AI models deliver breakthrough performance in a compact size, processing text, images and speech simultaneously while requiring less computing power than competitors.

VentureBeat - 1d

Nvidia CEO Huang says AI has to do ‘100 times more’ computation now than when ChatGPT was released

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke with CNBC's Jon Fortt following the chipmaker's quarterly earnings report on Wednesday.

CNBC - 1d

Snowflake gains more than 4% on earnings beat as company expands AI push

Snowflake announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft Azure to offer access to OpenAI models on Wednesday.

CNBC - 22h

Meta plans to release standalone Meta AI app in effort to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT

Meta's upcoming AI app advances CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plans to make his company the leader in AI by the end of the year, people familiar with the matter said.

CNBC - 19h