The AI search startup Perplexity is in hot water in the wake of a Wired investigation revealing that the startup has been crawling content from websites that don’t want to be crawled.
Perplexity’s “answer engine” works by crawling large swaths of information on the web and then creatin
Oracle on Thursday said it will invest more than $1 billion over the next 10 years in artificial intelligence and cloud computing in Spain, as it looks to meet increasing demand for its services in the country.
The investment will be used to set up a new cloud region that
When Elon Musk, Karlie Kloss, Travis Kelce, and a who’s-who of media, branding, and tech execs all converge, there’s plenty of buzz. From the Cannes Lions festival in the south of France, Autodesk’s Dara Treseder talks about the key themes, lessons, and intrigue that emerged. She explains why AI and women’s sports dominated much of the conversation, how the attention economy is giving way to the ‘intention economy’, and why influencers don’t want you calling them “influencers” anymore.
Amazon is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge o
The vacation rental startup Wander is using AI to power a next-generation concierge service.
Wander, which manages and rents out dozens of high end vacation homes across the country, aims to deliver the same level of reliable luxury as a top-of-the-line hotel chain. And to eliminate some of the confusion people can experience navigating idiosyncratic rentals booked through platforms like Airbnb or Vrbo, Wander enables guests to control features
It will take more than a back-to-back pair of impressive sequel openings to fix this dismal summer movie season. And it’s going to take way more than th
The cybersecurity firm Kaspersky denied Friday that it is a security threat after the U.S. Commerce Department banne
We’re living in an AI-powered world. The way we are communicating with technology and each other is changing. A recent study found that 40% of respondents were studying English to mitigate the impact of AI and technology on their jobs. English proficiency is emerging as a top asset in today’s business landscape. It is spoken by almost
This week, biotech Oculogenex landed an early, but essential, endorsement from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the company’s CEO and founder Hema Ramkumar told Fast Company, for a therapy to treat an eye-wasting disease that’s the leading cause of irreversible vision loss in elderly Americans. The regulatory milestone isn’t an approval for the drug itself, but a significant “go-ahead” in the minutiae of how any drug is devel
Companies are at a crossroad when it comes to AI adoption: Either embrace the technology—along with all of its flaws, unknowns, and alarming capability to spread disi