In this week’s Digiday+ Research Briefing, we examine BuzzFeed’s plans to pivot the business to an AI-driven tech and media company, how marketers’ use of X and ad spending has dropped dramatically, and how agency executives are fed up with Meta’s ad platform bugs and overcharges, as seen in recent data from Digiday+ Research.
Businesses need to make a lot of video content to support processes like compliance training, onboarding, and more – especially when getting hundreds or thousands of employees up to speed at scale. Enterprise AI video platform Vyond is using artificial intelligence (AI) to make that task quicker and easier. On Wednesday, the company announced new generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) features to its video-generating tools, most notably improved brand control measures. Also: My 9 must-have...
Former Tech Mahindra India business head Jagdish Mitra has set up an AI startup with a proposed initial investment of Rs 65-80 crore. The startup is likely to commence operations in the next three months. We will start going to customers in 8-12 months. Initially, we will invest USD 8-10 million, Mitra -- one of the contenders for the post of Tech Mahindra CEO position after CP Gurnani resigned -- told PTI. Cost arbitrage factor, driven by manpower, is going to be seriously impacted. It...
New York are a talented but messy team. Instead it could be the Dallas Stars who come out on top in the Stanley Cup finalIn clinching the Presidents’ Trophy – awarded to the team with the best regular season record – the New York Rangers now hope to break the curse that purportedly jinxes its holders to playoff failure. It’s been a decade since a Presidents’ Trophy-winning team, the 2013 Chicago Blackhawks, went on to win that year’s Stanley Cup. Are the Rangers that kind of team? Continue...
Top tech and government leaders will huddle in Washington next week to formulate plans to ensure the U.S. takes charge of the global artificial intelligence race and shapes emerging tech developments.
As wave after wave of layoffs crash over Bay Area companies and the wider tech industry, questions swirl about the causes of the cuts. Now, at least one answer is becoming clearer: Executives want fatter pockets for investing in artificial intelligence. In an interview on the Verge’s “Decoder” podcast published Monday, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston mounted a zealous argument for the importance of AI while defending his company’s 500-worker layoff in April 2023. The two things are linked, he said,...
The weekend is about to look a little less like the weekend for the bosses at one of the world’s largest technology and manufacturing companies. Samsung will soon require its executives to work six days a week, according to an April 18 report from the Korea Economic Daily. The Korea-based conglomerate, which makes Galaxy smartphones, flatscreen televisions, appliances and a wide range of other devices, is a stalwart of the tech industry. It generates tens of billions of dollars of revenue every...
On this Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency is celebrating its new emissions standard for heavy-duty trucks as a triumph for the environment. The irony Read More
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Elon Musk has claimed that superhuman artificial intelligence could arrive by the end of 2025 - having previously predicted that superintelligent AI would arrive by the end of the decade.
On April 28, 2024, the price of bitcoin was coasting along at $62,900 per unit as of 7:28 p.m. Eastern Time (ET). Since then, the price fell below the $62K mark by Monday morning ET, only to climb back above $62,000 by mid-afternoon. It has been nine days since the last halving event and 109 […]