OpenAI’s Codex Adds Plugins for Six Professions, Reaching Into Banking
NEW YORK — The workflow OpenAI demonstrated for its new investment banking plugin looked like a junior banker’s morning compressed into seconds. Codex pulled the comparable transactions, checked them against…
Google’s Phone App Now Flags Deepfake Callers, Using a Digital Handshake
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The call came from the number of a contact saved in the phone, and the voice on the line sounded like that person, warm and familiar,…
Britain Rules Website Owners Can Block Google From Training AI on Their Content
LONDON — For years, the default assumption inside the AI industry was that anything posted publicly on the internet was fair game for training models. A British regulatory ruling this…
Meta Turns WhatsApp Into a Customer Service Machine, With AI Agents for Every Business
LONDON — The small business had a familiar problem: customers asked the same five questions all day, and a human could not be in three conversations at once. The shop…
Anthropic Files Confidentially for IPO, Setting Up a Test of AI Valuations
SAN FRANCISCO — The paperwork has not been made public, and the company has said almost nothing, but the filing landed this week and it is the most anticipated document…
Uber’s Employees Spent the Year’s AI Budget in Four Months, and Finance Took Notice
SAN FRANCISCO — The spreadsheet landed on the chief financial officer’s desk with a number that did not look right. Uber’s internal data showed employees had used up the company’s…
Huang’s RTX Spark Launch in Taipei Redraws the Map of the AI Hardware Business
TAIPEI — The keynote began with a countdown and a crowd that had queued since before dawn, and Jensen Huang did not open with a slide. He walked onto the…
Alphabet Raises $80 Billion in Its Largest-Ever Share Sale to Fund AI Buildout
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The news arrived in a regulatory filing rather than a keynote, and it was the largest equity raise in Google’s history. Alphabet announced plans to sell…
Wharton Researchers Warn AI Could Produce Everything and Sell Nothing
PHILADELPHIA — The paper is an academic exercise, a mathematical model of an economy where machines do the work and people do the buying, and its conclusion is a paradox…
Anthropic Files Confidentially for an IPO, Stepping Ahead of OpenAI
The announcement landed on a Monday morning with the understated cadence of a compliance notice, and it changed the shape of the year’s biggest listing season. Anthropic, the artificial-intelligence company…
