AI
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AI isn’t replacing Hyatt’s salespeople—it’s freeing up a full day of work every week, according to the CEO
Hyatt says its AI-powered sales tools are helping employees save roughly one day per week while increasing the company’s share of group bookings. AI helps the company’s sales team “be more efficient and effective to respond to the more than one and a half million RFPs we get every year from corporate customers,” said Hyatt…
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The AI industry spent years chasing bigger models. Now it’s chasing efficiency
After spending years racing to build ever-larger AI models, researchers and infrastructure providers are increasingly focused on a new problem: how to make those systems affordable enough to deploy at scale. Sara Hooker, cofounder and CEO of startup AI lab Adaption, told the audience at Fortune Brainstorm Tech on Tuesday that most of today’s AI…
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‘Getting control where we can’—Europe wants sovereign AI but most of the chips are from the U.S.
The promise of sovereign AI is that a country can keep its models, data, and compute power at home. But there’s one critical component that has to come from outside: the chips. “Today, there is no equivalent in Europe,” said Timothée Lacroix, cofounder and chief technology officer of French AI company Mistral AI, referring to…
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Anthropic releases its first Mythos-class model to the public
Anthropic is making its first Mythos-tier model available to the general public. On Tuesday, the AI lab announced it was rolling out Fable 5—the first widespread release of an AI model from a significantly more powerful class of model—as a general release, and Claude Mythos 5 to vetted partners who already have access to the…
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Grimes says AI can make music, but humans must still tell the story
The singer-songwriter Grimes has embraced AI-generated music, but she insists that even as music formats change, humans must still play a central role. Grimes appeared at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado on Monday alongside Robert Kyncl, chief executive of Warner Music Group. Debating the future for music artists in the age of…
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‘We expect it to leak so we’re just announcing it’: OpenAI files confidential SEC paperwork for IPO
ChatGPT maker OpenAI filed preliminary paperwork that would open the door to it becoming a publicly traded company, the third in a powerhouse trio of artificial intelligence companies racing to Wall Street debuts. The San Francisco-based company said Monday it has filed confidential paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. “We expect it to leak so we’re just…
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Anthropic’s Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, says there are days he manages tens of thousands of AI agents at once
Boris Cherny, the creator and head of Anthropic’s Claude Code, hasn’t handwritten a line of code in eight months. But that doesn’t mean he’s stopped building software—it just means he now manages a massive fleet of AI agents to do much of the work. “This morning I was managing maybe a few hundred,” he said…
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Apple debuts Siri AI at WWDC as Tim Cook prepares to hand over the reins
On Monday, Apple held its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, in what was both Tim Cook’s last as chief executive and what analysts have dubbed the company’s most high-stakes showcase in years. At the event, Apple debuted a new and improved Siri—rebranded as Siri AI—as the company sought to answer mounting questions about its place in…
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‘We may be flying blind’: AWS wants to fix the problem of AI agents straying off task
Anoop Deoras, the director of applied science for agentic AI at Amazon Web Services, is not prone to alarmism. But when asked about what happens when AI agents are deployed in production without proper guardrails, he doesn’t reach for reassurance. “In the absence of that,” he said, “we may be flying blind. And I worry…
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OpenAI readies ‘superapp’ pivot ahead of planned IPO, FT reports
OpenAI is readying a major platform overhaul ahead of its highly anticipated IPO later this year to better compete with rivals such as Anthropic, the Financial Times reported. The San Francisco-based company plans to transform ChatGPT from a standard question-and-answer chatbot into a comprehensive “superapp,” with changes set to roll out in the coming weeks,…