#ai-partnerships

#ai-partnerships

More recently, Lumen partnered with IBM to unlock scalable AI for businesses, as well as with Google Cloud to provide advanced cloud and network solutions to meet the growing demands of AI workloads. Lumen strengthened its financial position and freed up capital for long-term growth by refinancing its term loans, as well as selling off its fiber-to-the-home business to AT&T. CEO Kate Johnson projected the company's return to growth by 2029.

According to internal sources at Apple, the company has built a ChatGPT-like app for iPhones that helps the engineering team develop the next-generation Siri, powered by LLM. Reportedly, the AI division is using the internal app to test new Siri features, including the ability to search through personal information like songs, emails, photos, videos, etc. It's also capable of executing in-app actions, such as editing photos.

Andrew Chin has spent nearly three decades working at AllianceBernstein, along the way taking leadership positions involving the management of $829 billion in assets, overseeing quantitative research, and spending time with clients. This diverse expertise made Chin a perfect candidate when the asset manager created the chief AI officer (CAIO) role a year ago. "It's easier for me to imagine reimagining our workflows with AI," says Chin, who previously served as chief risk officer and chief data scientist.

Meta is weighing up partnerships with Google and OpenAI to boost AI features in its apps, according to The Information. Leaders at Meta Superintelligence Labs have discussed using Google's Gemini model for conversational responses in Meta AI, the company's main chatbot. Talks also include using OpenAI's models to power Meta AI and other social media tools. These deals would be short-term.

OpenAI announced two open-weight reasoning models with capabilities on par with its o-series, and Amazon announced that the new models would soon be available as a service on AWS.