AI
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AWS CEO Matt Garman sees huge business opportunity for Amazon in AI-powered software: ‘Everything is going to be remade’
AWS chief executive Matt Garman isn’t losing any sleep over talk of the “SaaSpocalypse.” In fact, he’s so confident companies will continue to buy software-as-a-service in the age of AI that he’s pushing Amazon Web Services into the SaaS business, and rolling out various products aimed directly at office workers and other professionals. On Tuesday
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The uncomfortable truth about AI and the American worker
Surveys consistently show that workers dread artificial intelligence. They worry it will render their skills obsolete, hollow out their roles, and eventually eliminate their paychecks altogether. That anxiety has shaped public discourse, union bargaining tables, and congressional hearings for the better part of three years. But a sweeping new analysis from Morgan Stanley Research offers
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A 160-year-old paradox explains why AI will create more lawyers and accountants—not fewer, top economist says
In 1865, English economist William Stanley Jevons observed that the invention of the Watt steam engine — which improved the efficiency of the coal-fired steam engine — made coal a more effective energy source. Jevons called it “a confusion of ideas” to assume the efficiency born from this invention would reduce coal consumption. That efficiency
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Tech is in turmoil—but the rest of corporate America isn’t. One Silicon Valley CEO knows why
Tech layoffs tied to AI are dominating headlines. Coders are being displaced by agents. Software headcount is shrinking. The message from Silicon Valley is that AI is restructuring the workforce in real time—and that the rest of corporate America should brace for the same. Box CEO Aaron Levie has a message back: not so fast.
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OpenAI’s bad week misses the point, says tech analyst Gene Munster: ‘I think this is a true story—it is an example of over-analyzing’
Sam Altman is having a pretty bad week, and it’s only Tuesday. On Monday, jurors were quickly seated in Oakland for his ‘hero,’ Elon Musk’s, $130 billion trial against him. Monday night, a fresh Wall Street Journal report knocked him down further, describing internal turmoil at OpenAI—slowing user growth, leading to missed revenue goals, leading
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Taylor Swift files to trademark her voice and image to save from potential AI misuse
Taylor Swift filed three new trademark applications with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, a move one legal expert theorizes it is to protect her voice and image from potential misuse through artificial intelligence. Two of the applications filed Friday are sound trademarks covering her voice, one of her saying “Hey, it’s Taylor Swift,” and
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I used Claude’s new Dispatch feature for a month. Here’s everything I was able to do
One of the better aspects of being a journalist—aside from the long hours, the bitter emails and Slack messages, and the wording and rewording of a simple phrase to ensure it reads just right—is the ability to spend time tinkering with things. For the past month, I’ve been tinkering with Dispatch, a new feature from
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Sam Altman apologizes to Canadian town where OpenAI failed to alert police about a mass shooter
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote a letter publicly apologizing to residents of the Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge after the company failed to alert local authorities about a person who allegedly killed eight people in the town earlier this year. On Feb. 10, an 18-year-old suspect, Jesse Van Rootselaar, allegedly killed her mother and stepbrother
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‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers
The recent tech layoffs would initially appear to indicate the great labor shift from human workers to AI may already be happening. Meta announced last week in a memo that it plans to lay off 10% of its workforce, about 8,000 employees, as well as scrap plans to hire for 6,000 open positions. It’s part
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Reed Hastings says AI will drive a return back to humanities: ‘I’d be doubling down on emotional skills’
Reed Hastings, the cofounder, former CEO, and now chairman of the board at Netflix, studied AI and computer science back in the 1980s. Decades later, he thinks today’s AI revolution could bring back an emphasis on the humanities as a field of study. After graduating with a degree in Math from Maine’s Bowdoin College, Hastings