Google stock's IPO performance is the benchmark by which this IBD-style trader measures all other market debuts. The tech giant's 2004 initial public offering marked the dawn of the modern internet era, with Alphabet (GOOGL) eventually growing into a powerhouse in social media, advertising and now generative AI.
OpenAI has been clear about its priorities: infrastructure, compute, and talent. CEO Sam Altman has repeatedly pointed to the sheer cost of training and running frontier AI models as the primary bottleneck to progress. According to reporting from Bloomberg, a significant portion of this raise will go toward securing GPU capacity through partnerships with data center providers across the United States, Japan, and the UAE.
My past experience has been with large consumer brands; we're always focused on leveraging technology to transform brands and create delightful, personalized customer experiences. At Elevance Health, I'm trying to do the same thing.
But now Google is also using AI to generate a list of services a local business offers. The AI-generated service list for Google local business panels was spotted by Joy Hawkins who wrote on X, "Google is now showing AI-generated services on knowledge panels for small businesses. The description is also AI-generated." Here is her screenshot: She also posted a video of it in action: Google is now showing AI-generated services on knowledge panels for small businesses. The description is also AI-generated.
Worries over whether the changing dynamics of search marketing will affect major brands have finally reached the boardroom. In several earnings calls this month, executives at high-profile advertisers like Airbnb and Expedia fielded questions from analysts over the impact of generative AI chatbots or Google's AI Overviews feature on their businesses. It's a sign that alarm bells are ringing. "It's going to be really tricky for brands to play in this new space," said Daniel Moreno, a senior SEO and GEO consultant at Dept U.K.
Indus serves as a chat interface for its newly announced Sarvam 105B model, the company's 105-billion-parameter large language model. The app's launch comes two days after Bengaluru-based Sarvam unveiled its 105B and 30B models at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi earlier this week. At the summit, the startup also outlined enterprise initiatives and hardware plans and announced partnerships with companies including HMD to bring AI to Nokia feature phones and Bosch for AI-enabled automotive applications.
Introduced yesterday, Photoshoot uses Google's powerful generative AI tools, including Nano Banana, to create "professional" images of a product. Users simply click on 'Create a Product Photoshoot' and upload a photo of their product. It can be any photo, no matter how bad. "Don't worry about polish - we'll take care of it," Google says facetiously. From that user-generated image, Photoshoot will create various shot templates, including 'Studio', 'Floating', 'Ingredient', and 'In use'.
Media and creative agencies face a range of threats in 2026, from generative AI to media fragmentation and the continued dominance of Meta and Google's platforms. In response, few businesses in this sector have stood still. They've chosen to merge, acquire - or in the case of Dentsu, cast loose - to keep moving forward. The likely destination? A leaner sector that employs fewer people and trades on its tech bonafides and principal-media trading capabilities over its creative chops.
The letter sent Thursday by Tillis and Schiff requested answers from Wood about why over one-third of the participants on the Restatement project resigned.
The fourth annual State of AI in telecommunications survey was carried out from September to November 2025, gathering responses from 1,038 respondents. It included a 60/40 split between management (including executives) and AI practitioners, including engineers, network operators, architects, cloud operators and IT. Respondents encompassed a range of industry segments, including internet service providers, independent software suppliers, network equipment providers, consulting services, operators and system integrators.
Born on Dec. 31, 1932 in Brooklyn, Nancy moved to Staten Island in 1978 with her family. A 1950 graduate of Lafayette High School in Brooklyn, she pursued a secretarial career before marrying John R. Gentile, Sr. on Aug. 31, 1952, sharing 65 years of marriage. Nancy devoted herself to being a homemaker, mother, and grandmother, and was an active member of St. Mary's Church in Brooklyn and St. Teresa's Church on Staten Island.
HackerOne does not train generative AI models, internally or through third-party providers, on researcher submissions or customer confidential data. Neither, she continued, are researcher submissions used to "train, fine-tune, or otherwise improve generative AI models." And third-party model providers are not permitted to "retain or use researcher or customer data for their own model training." Sprague assured researchers: "You are not inputs to our models... Hai is designed to complement your work, not replace it."
As generative artificial intelligence (AI) advances in its capabilities, people are using tools like ChatGPT and Grok, the AI embedded in the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), for general brainstorming. These AI tools have become (maybe-not-so) trusted advisors that can spark ideas or help people sort out their thoughts. You have to fact-check every bit of solid information, since GenAI isn't known for its accuracy.
Runway, a generative AI platform for creating and editing videos, images, and multimedia content using text-to-video and related AI models, has raised $315M in Series E funding led by General Atlantic. Founded by Alejandro Ortiz, Anastasis Germanidis, and Cristobal Barrera in 2018, Runway has now raised a total of $859.5M in reported equity funding. Garner Health, a healthcare benefit platform for finding high-quality in-network doctors, has raised $118M in Series D funding led by Kleiner Perkins.
AI-driven authoring is our second major area of focus for 2026. At the Game Developer Conference in March, we'll be unveiling a beta of the new upgraded Unity AI, which will enable developers to prompt full casual games into existence with natural language only, native to our platform - so it's simple to move from prototype to finished product.
In a statement, the Irish DPC said: "The inquiry concerns the apparent creation, and publication on the X platform, of potentially harmful, non-consensual intimate and/or sexualized images, containing or otherwise involving the processing of personal data of EU/EEA data subjects, including children, using generative artificial intelligence functionality associated with the Grok large language model via the Grok account within the X platform."
Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report. Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools driving the sector's explosive growth of gas-guzzling datacentres, the analysis of 154 statements found.
One scientist at MIT, Cyrus Clarke, is working to do just that. Alongside a team of fellow researchers, Clarke has developed a physical machine called the Anemoia Device, which uses a generative AI model to analyze an archival photograph, describe it in a short sentence, and, following the user's own inputs, convert that description into a unique fragrance. The word "anemoia" was coined by author John Koenig and included in his 2021 book, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
As the AI revolution accelerates and continues to reshape traditional business models, it has triggered a cascade of new legal, regulatory and policy challenges. At the forefront of these emerging issues are a growing number of high-stakes legal battles between content creators and major Generative AI (GenAI) companies behind large language models (LLMs). This article examines key legal themes and critical questions arising from recent developments at the intersection of AI and Copyright law.
Algorithms can now transcribe meetings in real time, translate across languages instantly, summarise dense reports in seconds, and generate content tailored to different reading levels. For many users, these are not just productivity gains. They are meaningful improvements in access, sometimes the difference between participating fully and struggling quietly on the margins. Voice interfaces reduce reliance on complex forms. Automated captions support participation in live conversations. Generative tools can rephrase technical or academic language into something clearer and more digestible.
Airbnb says its custom-built AI agent is now handling roughly a third of its customer support issues in North America, and it's preparing to roll out the feature globally. If successful, the company believes that in a year's time, more than 30% of its total customer support tickets will be handled by AI voice and chat in all the languages where it also employs a human customer service agent.
According to a UK casting notice viewed by Variety, the producers of Killing Satoshi reserve the right to "change, add to, take from, translate, reformat or reprocess" actors' performances, using "generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and/or machine learning technologies." No digital replicas will be created of performers, but it sounds like plenty of other AI-driven tweaks are on the table.
People who enter phrases such as best flowers for Valentine's Day, might see ads from an Albertsons banner in their area. Albertsons' participation in the pilot program follows other steps the company has taken to integrate agentic and generative AI tools into its operations. Albertsons said its retail media unit, Albertsons Media Collective, will be looking to help brands reach shoppers through ChatGPT as the pilot program progresses.
Last year was dismal for the real estate market, and he expects things to improve only marginally in 2026. (If January's historic drop in home sales is indicative, that even is overoptimistic.) "The way to think about it is that there were 4.1 million existing homes sold last year-a normal market is 5.5 to 6 million," Wacksman says. He hastens to add that Zillow itself is doing better than the real estate industry overall.
Few tools have reshaped day-to-day work in tech as quickly as generative AI; coding tasks that once took developers days-or weeks-can now be spun up in seconds. So naturally, many workers are now embracing "vibes" to program, instead of writing software line by line. But Minecraft creator Markus Persson, the billionaire developer better known as "Notch," is sounding an alarm: even if tech companies are embracing coding with AI, that doesn't make it a good thing.
