Aaron Holmes

Over the past three years, as OpenAI swelled from a tiny research lab into the world’s most valuable startup, one company has captured nearly all of its billions of dollars in annual spending on the servers needed to power OpenAI’s artificial intelligence: Microsoft. In recent months, though, ...

OpenAI can hardly announce a new product before a chorus of tech pundits declare it will kill a bunch of other applications. In the most recent example, investors in several public software companies went into a panic last week after OpenAI showed a demo of an internal artificial intelligence ...

Over the past year, companies have been tinkering with generative artificial intelligence to create customized agents that automate complex tasks, but they’ve gotten mixed results. Now, OpenAI is pushing a new suite of tools to make the assembly of agents easier, and to peel customers away from ...

Microsoft is preparing to launch a new marketplace that would let makers of AI products pay U.S. publishers for content that the AI products surface, Axios reported on Tuesday. The company is preparing to launch a pilot program that will pay certain publishers for content that’s used by Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot and eventually expand to  AI applications made by other companies. It outlined the

Without video games, the artificial intelligence boom may not have happened: the Nvidia chips that powered recent AI breakthroughs were originally designed to process video game graphics.Now, game studios are increasingly turning to generative AI to automate the work of developing their games.

On paper, Informatica, a Redwood City-based cloud software firm with 5,000 white collar employees, is exactly the type of company that should be gung-ho to pay up and buy Microsoft 365 Copilot, the version of the company’s flagship Office software that comes with artificial intelligence ...

Microsoft is taking its biggest step to lessen reliance on OpenAI’s artificial intelligenceby embracing the startup’s bitter rival Anthropic to power its most important software business. Microsoft will pay to use Anthropic’s technology for some AI features in Office 365 apps, according to two ...

Across American businesses, use of artificial intelligence has fallen in recent months, according to the Census Bureau’s biweekly survey of thousands of companies.The drop is especially pronounced at the largest companies surveyed: AI for “producing goods and services” peaked in June for those ...

Job seekers are increasingly running into employers using artificial intelligence-powered job interviewers, and the process has garnered backlash and in some casessparked lawsuits from spurned candidates. But AI interviewers might actually increase candidates’ chances of getting hired.A new ...

AI agents are getting more advanced—but they’re also getting more expensive to run. That trend is beginning to force AI agent sellers to change their pricing models to pass on more of the cost of running the agents to their users.Traditionally, AI companies have sold their products to businesses ...