Meta Turns WhatsApp Into a Customer Service Machine, With AI Agents for Every Business
LONDON — The small business had a familiar problem: customers asked the same five questions all day, and a human could not be in three conversations at once. The shop…
Anthropic Files Confidentially for IPO, Setting Up a Test of AI Valuations
SAN FRANCISCO — The paperwork has not been made public, and the company has said almost nothing, but the filing landed this week and it is the most anticipated document…
Uber’s Employees Spent the Year’s AI Budget in Four Months, and Finance Took Notice
SAN FRANCISCO — The spreadsheet landed on the chief financial officer’s desk with a number that did not look right. Uber’s internal data showed employees had used up the company’s…
Huang’s RTX Spark Launch in Taipei Redraws the Map of the AI Hardware Business
TAIPEI — The keynote began with a countdown and a crowd that had queued since before dawn, and Jensen Huang did not open with a slide. He walked onto the…
Alphabet Raises $80 Billion in Its Largest-Ever Share Sale to Fund AI Buildout
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The news arrived in a regulatory filing rather than a keynote, and it was the largest equity raise in Google’s history. Alphabet announced plans to sell…
Wharton Researchers Warn AI Could Produce Everything and Sell Nothing
PHILADELPHIA — The paper is an academic exercise, a mathematical model of an economy where machines do the work and people do the buying, and its conclusion is a paradox…
Anthropic Files Confidentially for an IPO, Stepping Ahead of OpenAI
The announcement landed on a Monday morning with the understated cadence of a compliance notice, and it changed the shape of the year’s biggest listing season. Anthropic, the artificial-intelligence company…
NVIDIA’s Humanoid Robot Reference Design Stands Six Feet Tall
Jensen Huang has a habit of measuring new hardware against himself. On June 1, at Computex in Taipei, the NVIDIA chief executive unveiled a humanoid robot built with Unitree Robotics,…
Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
Over the weekend, the Instagram accounts of the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force briefly displayed pro-Iranian images and messages. The defacements were…
Florida Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman Over ChatGPT’s Role in Violent Incidents
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier stood before reporters on June 1 and announced what his office described as the first-in-the-nation state lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman.…
