As a product VP at Google Cloud, Michael Gerstenhaber works mostly on Vertex, the company’s unified platform for deploying enterprise AI. It gives him a high-level view of how companies are actually using AI models, and what still needs to be…
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OpenAI calls in the consultants for its enterprise push
OpenAI is beefing up partnerships with four major consulting giants as the AI company looks to grow its enterprise business in 2026.
OpenAI announced on Monday the “Frontier Alliance,” a signal that the AI lab is willing to try different…
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Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM
The challenge of wrangling a deep learning model is often understanding why it does what it does: Whether it’s xAI’s repeated struggle sessions to fine-tune Grok’s odd politics, ChatGPT’s struggles with sycophancy, or run-of-the-mill…
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New Microsoft gaming chief has “no tolerance for bad AI”
A gaming education
Unlike Spencer, who spent years at Microsoft Game Studios before heading Microsoft’s gaming division, Sharma has no professional experience in the video game industry. And her personal experience with…
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Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don’t have to
An AI news app called Particle, from former Twitter engineers, can now keep up with news breaking on podcasts as well as news published on the web.
Just ahead of its recent Android release, Particle has introduced a feature called Podcast…
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Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.K. and other markets
After initially testing its AI-powered “Prompted Playlists” feature in New Zealand and recently launching in the U.S. and Canada, Spotify announced on Monday that it’s rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland,…
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Sam Altman says ChatGPT water use claims are ‘completely untrue’ — but admits AI energy use is a concern
- Sam Altman dismisses claims about ChatGPT’s water usage as “totally fake”
- Experts warn that scaling AI infrastructure is driving huge costs and increasing pressure on power, cooling, and resources
- The real issue isn’t efficiency —…
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AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
A US court last year found that Anthropic’s training of LLMs on some copyrighted content could be considered fair use as it was deemed “transformative.”
But it determined that storing pirated works was “inherently,…
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2026: Beginning the year with an ethics-first strategy
As a founder, the new year is a vital time to plan ahead and to interrogate the blind spots that exist inside our companies. It is during this season when we are most tempted to focus on growth without equal attention to the risks that growth…
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Defense Secretary summons Anthropic’s Amodei over military use of Claude
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is calling in Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning to discuss the military use of Claude, according to reporting from Axios.
The meeting comes as the Pentagon threatens to declare…
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