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☆ Apple is weighing a big decision impacting the next iPhone release: OpenAI or Google's Gemini
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Apple is in talks with OpenAI and Google to bring AI to the next iPhone, Bloomberg reported. Tim Cook in recent months has teased that Apple has big plans for AI coming this year. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Business Insider previously reported that the iPhone 16 is expected to be released this fall.

Persons: Tim Cook, — Organizations: Apple, OpenAI, Google, Bloomberg, Service, Business

☆ Reid Hoffman interviewed his AI deepfake and it was pretty convincing
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Reid Hoffman sat down for an interview with a deepfake of himself. The bot discussed AI regulation and spoke in Klingon during the conversation. Reid AI and Hoffman asked each other questions throughout the interview posted Wednesday. AdvertisementIn their conversation, the two Reids discussed AI regulation, its capabilities, and ways Hoffman can improve his LinkedIn profile. Advertisement"There's a need for a framework that not only fuels innovation but also ensures AI benefits are fairly distributed, all while focusing on enhancing public good," Reid AI said.

Persons: Reid Hoffman, —, Reid Hoffman's, Jerry Seinfeld, Reid, Hoffman, I've, deepfakes Organizations: Service

☆ Nvidia jumps more than 15% this week. A key reason: what other companies are saying
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

"These are big checks made out to get Blackwells and H200s from, yes, Nvidia," Jim Cramer said during Friday's Morning Meeting . "There are a lot of people … that think this stock is a dangerous stock," Jim said. The next earnings report to shed light on demand for Nvidia's AI chips is set for Tuesday evening when Club name Amazon releases first-quarter results. While Amazon also has custom AI chips, it's a sizable Nvidia customer and the companies have enjoyed a longtime partnership. Even electric vehicle maker Tesla indicated earlier this week that it plans to buy tens of thousands more Nvidia chips this year to support self-driving car efforts.

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☆ Google's 'fastest-growing' moonshot that spun out into an AI earbuds startup aims to ship its first product this year
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewA team inside X, Google's moonshot factory, was working on a revolutionary hearing device, Business Insider reported in 2021. A few months later, Wolverine's lead, Jason Rugolo, spun the project out of Alphabet and formed a startup named Iyo. Rugolo says the company plans to ship its first product by the end of this year. Rugolo told BI he hired Kraft for a stint at Google X to work on what would become Iyo. Iyo isn't the first X project to fly from Alphabet's nest, and it probably won't be the last.

Persons: —, Google's, Jason Rugolo, Rugolo, Iyo, Lockheed Martin, Sergey Brin, Noah Kraft, Kraft, we're, X Organizations: Service, Business, Lockheed, Horizons Ventures, US, ARPA, Research Projects Agency, Energy, Google, Doppler Labs, Spotify, TED, Wolverine, BI

☆ Alphabet stock surges 11% on blowout earnings and first dividend for Google owner
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Alphabet shares surged in Friday's premarket after a blowout earnings report for the Google owner. AdvertisementAlphabet stock surged ahead of Friday's opening bell as investors cheered the Google owner's blowout first-quarter earnings. If those gains hold until the opening bell, its valuation will top $2 trillion for the first time. Meanwhile, Microsoft stock made more modest gains after it reported first-quarter earnings on Thursday afternoon. Shares were up almost in pre-market trading, putting its market capitalization on course to jump about $11 billion at the opening bell back above $3 trillion.

Persons: —, AJ Bell, Russ Mould, Amy Hood, hadn't, OpenAI, Sophie Lund, Yates, Hargreaves Lansdown Organizations: Google, Microsoft, Nasdaq, Big Tech, Service, Apple Locations: Friday's

☆ CEOs make the message clear on AI's big payoff: Be patient
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

And the initial signs are quite positive here too," Zuckerberg told investors in an earnings call. AdvertisementElon Musk had even stronger words for investors on Tuesday after Tesla reported plunging profits. Even so, Musk insisted during an earnings call that Tesla is an AI company and had a specific message to any shareholder who thinks that Tesla won't develop self-driving someday. On Thursday, Microsoft and Alphabet reported profits, which they ascribed in part to their respective AI sectors. Google's parent company reported $23.7 billion in profits for the same period.

Persons: —, Apple, Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, we've, Elon Musk, Tesla, Musk, Matthew Prince, Sundar Pichai, Pichai Organizations: Service, Meta, OpenAI's, EV, Economic, Reuters, Nvidia, Microsoft Locations: Davos

☆ Intel used to dominate the U.S. chip industry. Now it's struggling to stay relevant
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +16 min

David Paul Morris | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe iPhone could have had an Intel chip inside. It would've made sense to use Intel chips, which ran on the best desktops at the time, including Apple's Macs. Braithwaite, who worked at Intel in the 1980s, said Intel's process engineers were the company's "crown jewels." Intel doesn't have a GPU competitor to Nvidia's AI accelerators, but it has an AI chip called Gaudi 3. For comparison, AMD expects about $2 billion in annual AI chip revenue.

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☆ CEOs of OpenAI, Google and Microsoft to join other tech leaders on federal AI safety panel
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Washington CNN —The US government has asked leading artificial intelligence companies for advice on how to use the technology they are creating to defend airlines, utilities and other critical infrastructure, particularly from AI-powered attacks. The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that the panel it’s creating will include CEOs from some of the world’s largest companies and industries. The list includes Google chief executive Sundar Pichai, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, but also the head of defense contractors such as Northrop Grumman and air carrier Delta Air Lines. It also includes federal, state and local government officials, as well as leading academics in AI such as Fei-Fei Li, co-director of Stanford University’s Human-centered Artificial Intelligence Institute. The US government already uses machine learning or artificial intelligence for more than 200 distinct purposes, such as monitoring volcano activity, tracking wildfires and identifying wildlife from satellite imagery.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Northrop Grumman, ”, Alejandro Mayorkas, Fei Li, Joe Biden Organizations: Washington CNN, Department of Homeland Security, Google, Microsoft, Delta Air Lines, DHS, “, Amazon Web Services, IBM, Cisco, ’, Civil, Stanford, Intelligence, Safety, Security

☆ Dr. Scott Gottlieb on the AI drug revolution, bird flu cattle outbreak latest
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailDr. Scott Gottlieb on the AI drug revolution, bird flu cattle outbreak latestFormer FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss news of Moderna's partnership with OpenAI to expand its employees access to AI chatbots, impact of the AI drug revolution, Dr. Gottlieb's venture into AI, latest developments on the bird flu cattle outbreak, and more.

Persons: Scott Gottlieb, OpenAI Organizations: FDA

☆ A top exec at PR giant Edelman lays out its plan to invest in generative AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Lauren Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

To do so, Edelman recently promoted Brian Buchwald to global chair of product and AI to oversee the firm's AI investments. Buchwald joined Edelman in 2023 and was previously the global head of product, trust data, and technology at the firm. Previously, this tool used small language models and now uses generative AI and large language models, Buchwald said. Using generative AI has increased the tool's ability to predict future trustworthiness with 97% accuracy, he said. More broadly, holding companies have made significant investments into generative AI for content creation that compete with Edelman.

Persons: Edelman, Taco Bell, Brian Buchwald, Buchwald, Weber, Interpublic Group's Weber, Jay Pattisall, Forrester Organizations: eBay, Business, New York Times, Google, Adobe, Edelman, WPP Locations: Talkwaker

☆ Personal CEO calls and $1 million pay packages: How tech companies recruit top AI talent amid a 'gold rush'
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Kali Hays | Ellen Thomas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

On top of that, she added that tech companies will give people in AI-related jobs bonuses for performance and plenty of equity compensation. About half of the people came from Big Tech companies. Gill said the new Kognitos hires who haven't come from Big Tech have jumped ship from other startups. Some AI talent are even striking it out on their own to start their own companies. He left his tech job to form an AI startup after seeing another large fundraise from another new AI company.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Dan Portillo, Goldman Sachs, Jaclyn Rice Nelson, Nelson, that's, Claude chatbot that's, Binny Gill, Kognitos, Gill, he's, haven't, David Steinberg, Steinberg, AI's Nelson, There's, Greg Selker, Stanton Chase, Selker, hemming, hawing Organizations: Service, Business, Meta, Sweat Equity Ventures, OpenAI, Big Tech, Zeta Global Locations: Anthropic, ChatGPT

☆ Microsoft says cloud AI demand is exceeding supply even after 79% surge in capital spending
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

In its earnings report on Thursday, Microsoft said capital expenditures jumped 79% from a year earlier to $14 billion. "We do have demand that exceeds our supply by a bit," Microsoft CFO Amy Hood told analysts on the company's earnings call. During the fiscal third quarter, revenue in Microsoft's Azure cloud rose 31%, with 7 percentage points from AI. Microsoft intends "to scale to meet the growing demand signal for our cloud and AI products," she said. WATCH: Microsoft's capex increase for AI infrastructure is not a surprise, says Deepwater's Gene Munster

Persons: Amy Hood, Hood, Deepwater's Gene Munster Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, Amazon Web Services Locations: Bellevue , Washington

☆ Alphabet's earnings are coming up. Here’s what analysts are looking for
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Pia Singh | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Google parent Alphabet is set to report earnings after the bell on Thursday, adding to the slate of Big Tech earnings this week. For the first quarter, analysts polled by LSEG are calling for earnings of $1.51 per share on revenue of $78.59 billion. What the Street expects to see: AI, Cloud growth, ad trends Beyond the headline figures, analysts are paying close attention to Alphabet's revenue from the Google Cloud business, YouTube ads and its traffic acquisition costs. The company's ad revenue of $65.52 billion came in lower than analysts' estimates of $65.94 billion, however, according to StreetAccount. With AI, Alphabet is working on both sides of the technology: the innovator and the investor.

Persons: LSEG, that's, Brent Thill, Thill, Maria Ripps, Prabhakar Raghavan, Gemini, Anthropic Organizations: Big Tech, Google, Meta, Jefferies, Capital, YouTube

☆ Microsoft shares jump 4% after the big AI winner delivers in all the right places
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

However, momentum from AI services will keep Azure growth stabilized at these high levels, outperforming the market's expectations. AI services continue to be a large source of revenue growth, contributing seven percentage points of growth. The Office Commercial Products and Cloud Services revenue rose 12%, while the Office Consumer Products and Cloud Services revenue grew 4%. Windows Commercial Products and Cloud Services revenue increased 12%, driven by demand for Windows 365. The company guided Azure's constant currency revenue growth to 30% to 31%, which is higher than estimates of 29%.

Persons: OpenAI, Satya Nadella, there's, we're, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Satya Narayana Nadella, Lucas Jackson Organizations: Microsoft, Revenue, Google, Fortune, Productivity, Products, Cloud Services, Consumer Products, Novo Nordisk, Nvidia, Activision, Windows, Management, CNBC Locations: OpenAI, ChatGPT, Novo, Manhattan, New York City

☆ Microsoft Reports Rising Revenues as A.I. Investments Bear Fruit
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Karen Weise | More About Karen Weise | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Profit hit $21.9 billion, up from $18.3 billion. A year after Microsoft began its push to put A.I. into everything it does, the company said sales of its flagship cloud computing product, Azure, had grown 31 percent. push has helped it gain market share from Amazon, the leading cloud services provider. In January, the company said 53,000 customers were using its cloud A.I.

Persons: Microsoft’s Organizations: Microsoft, Revenue, Amazon

☆ Alphabet tempers fears that it's falling behind in AI with blowout first-quarter results
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks in conversation with Emily Chang during the APEC CEO Summit at Moscone West on November 16, 2023 in San Francisco, California. There were other reasons for skepticism ahead of Alphabet's earnings report. Like Meta, Alphabet is pouring money into AI. Last month, Alphabet announced a suite of products, including Vertex AI, a no-code console for enterprise companies to build their own AI agents. With first-quarter results in the rearview mirror, Alphabet now has to keep up with heightened expectations, which will only increase as competitors roll out more generative AI products.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, Emily Chang, Ruth Porat, missteps, Investors, Mark Zuckerberg, Pichai, he's, Prabhakar Raghavan, Raghavan Organizations: APEC, Summit, Moscone West, YouTube, Nasdaq, Nvidia, Amazon, Meta, Revenue, Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, rollouts Locations: San Francisco , California, San Francisco, U.S

☆ Alphabet set to report first-quarter results after market close
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Revenue: $78.59 billion, according to LSEG. : $7.72 billion, according to StreetAccount. Traffic acquisition costs (TAC): $12.74 billion, according to StreetAccount. Wall Street is expecting Alphabet to report a second straight quarter of year-over-year revenue growth in the low teens. CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in January that more job cuts were likely coming in 2024, though he didn't specify at the time which teams would be affected.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, Prabhakar Raghavan, Raghavan, Liz Reid, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg's, Ruth Porat Organizations: Google, TAC, OpenAI, Microsoft, CNBC Locations: Brussels, Belgium, LSEG, StreetAccount

☆ Meta's AI is now in your Instagram and Facebook. Here's what it does — and whether you can turn it off
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Meta introduced its AI-powered chatbot Meta AI across its social media and messaging platforms. The prompt "ask Meta AI anything" shows up whenever you click on the search bar in Instagram and Facebook. But despite being available on the app, Meta AI isn't automatically connected to your social media accounts or personal information. Unlike other chatbots that you can use at your own will, you can't get rid of Meta AI. And on WhatsApp and Messenger, users can just ignore the Meta AI chats since they're not available in the search bar.

Persons: Meta, —, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Ana Altchek Organizations: Gemini, Service, Facebook, Apple, Meta Locations: Instagram

☆ Mark Zuckerberg thinks AI is Meta's future. Not everyone is convinced.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementNot everyone is on board with Mark Zuckerberg's AI enthusiasm. Related storiesThat slide shows that investors' tolerance for huge AI spending without clear revenue gains might be beginning to wane. Zuckerberg's also been praised for some of his strategies around Meta's AI development, including the decision to open-source models and stockpile GPUs. While Meta's AI products, including Llama 3, have been generally well received, the company is not selling any version of its newest AI model, which is largely open source. Zuckerberg's newest AI model even received a nod of approval from old rival Elon Musk.

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☆ Microsoft, Amazon AI partnerships face scrutiny from British regulators
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A Microsoft logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen and Amazon logo in the background in Athens, Greece on October 5, 2023. British antitrust regulators are seeking views on partnerships between Microsoft and Amazon with smaller generative AI model makers. Microsoft recently made a 15 million euro ($16 million) investment into Mistral, a young French AI firm set up by former employees of Meta and Google's DeepMind AI lab. Amazon, meanwhile, has invested a whopping $4 billion into U.S. AI firm Anthropic, which is behind the Claude large language model and chatbot. An Amazon spokesperson said it was "unprecedented" for the CMA to review a collaboration of the kind that the company had agreed with Anthropic.

Persons: Claude, it's Organizations: Microsoft, Markets Authority, French, Amazon, CMA, Mistral, Meta, Competition, Anthropic Locations: Athens, Greece, French, Anthropic

☆ Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Brian X. Chen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the last few days, you may have noticed something new inside Meta’s apps, including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp: an artificially intelligent chatbot. This is Meta’s response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the chatbot that upended the tech industry in 2022, and similar bots including Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Bing AI. The Meta bot’s image generator also competes with A.I. Unlike other chatbots and image generators, Meta’s A.I. assistant is a free tool baked into apps that billions of people use every day, making it the most aggressive push yet from a big tech company to bring this flavor of artificial intelligence — known as generative A.I.

Persons: ”, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Bing, A.I, — Organizations: corgi, Meta Locations: New York, San Francisco

☆ Don't bet against Zuckerberg: Meta's earnings-driven stock slide is an opportunity
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

META YTD mountain Meta Platforms YTD We obviously don't like what we are seeing after hours in the stock. While expecting a similar dynamic to play out now with AI investments, Zuckerberg fully expects the end result to be similar as the team scales its offerings and then begins to monetize the investments. Regarding shareholder returns, the company repurchased $14.6 billion worth of stock during the quarter while returning another $1.3 billion via dividends. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio. The logo of the U.S. company created by Mark Zuckerberg, Meta is displayed during the Viva Technology conference at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on June 15, 2023 in Paris, France.

Persons: That's, Mark Zuckerberg, we'll, Zuckerberg, China's ByteDance, we've, we're, it's, ChatGPT, Jim Cramer, Joe Biden, Jim, Jim Cramer's, Porte de Versailles Organizations: Revenue, LSEG, Zuckerberg, China's, Meta, Microsoft, Electric, Realty Labs, Daily, People, CNBC, U.S ., Viva Technology, Parc, Chesnot, Getty Locations: U.S, Asia, Pacific, Paris, France

☆ Elon Musk is keeping investors' dreams of a Tesla robotaxi alive
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

This is the Tesla Musk is selling to Wall Street, and he's telling anyone with doubts to stay away. "If somebody doesn't believe Tesla's going to solve autonomy, I think they should not be an investor in the company," Musk said on the earnings call. In a shareholder deck that Tesla published before the call, the company featured a "preview of ride-hailing in the Tesla app." At an AI Day in August 2021, Musk said Tesla would build a humanoid robot, now known as Optimus. "No matter what, even if I got kidnapped by aliens tomorrow, Tesla will solve autonomy, maybe a little slower but it would solve autonomy for vehicles at least," Musk said.

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☆ Tesla's earnings report was worse than expected, but Elon Musk has a plan
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at Tesla's earnings report and what comes next for the EV maker. The big storyTesla's turnaround planJADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images; Chelsea Jia Feng; BIBad news: Tesla's earnings report was worse than expected. AdvertisementPerhaps that's why Musk spent so much of the earnings call discussing autonomy and the progress made with Tesla's Full Self-Driving software . Musk told analysts on the earnings call that Tesla is the majority of his work . If investors vote against the package at Tesla's annual meeting in June, who knows where Musk — and his AI ambitions — will end up .

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☆ Zuckerberg warned investors that Meta's AI investment will take 'several years' before it pays off. Meta's stock price tumbled.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Meta's stock tumbled about 16% after trading hours despite posting better-than-expected Q1 results. AdvertisementDespite posting record revenue for the January-March quarter, Meta's stock is being bogged down on Wednesday by the company's increasing investments in AI. Meta's investment in AI is no different, Zuckerberg said, but the CEO cautioned that the returns for artificial intelligence will take some time. AdvertisementIn the lead up to the first-quarter results, Meta launched its latest version of its chatbot, Llama 3, which will power the company's new AI assistant, Meta AI. Zuckerberg said that the AI assistant will be integrated into many of Meta's products, including Instagram and Facebook.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, —, Meta, that's, Zuckerberg, we've, Insider's Hasan Chowdhury Organizations: Service, Meta, Facebook

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