Jon Victor

New AI-powered programming tools like OpenAI’s Codex or Google’s Jules might not be able to code an entire app from scratch just yet. But when it comes to working with large amounts of previously written code, those products could soon be saving developers a ton of time.For example, Codex excels ...

Microsoft, Salesforce and numerous startups have talked up the idea of an artificial intelligence–powered coach that gives feedback to salespeople about their pitches to customers.Databricks is one of the few companies to actually use such a product at scale. Earlier this year, the data-analysis ...

Palo Alto Networks said Tuesday that revenue rose 15% in its fiscal third quarter ended April 30, thanks to business’ increasing purchases of its cloud-based cybersecurity tools. Growth, however, has stalled at roughly the same pace as the prior two quarters and the company predicted revenue would rise less than 14% in the current quarter. Shares fell 4% after hours. The company, which sells

These have been difficult years for roughly a dozen of the major startups trying to sell artificial intelligence models to app developers or corporate customers.OpenAI and other AI firms that sell ready-to-use products for knowledge workers have sucked the oxygen out of the room for startups ...

The conversational intelligence boom sparked by OpenAI unleashed a flood of venture capital dollars for the sector, but AI developers that didn’t focus on selling revenue-generating applications fast enough have been left in the dust. One of the best examples is Cohere, an OpenAI rival that was ...

As the cost of running artificial intelligence models falls, the land grab in customer support automation has reached a new level of intensity. Nearly every major enterprise software vendor now offers a product for automating customer support, according to our analysis, which also breaks down ...

The rise of new artificial intelligence–powered business software threatens the future of long-established software firms. Their response is to jump into new markets with their own AI-powered software. That’s pitting companies against each other in new ways. ServiceNow earlier this week ...

We’ve written a lot about the possibility that consumers could soon use ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots for tasks like booking travel or ordering food, depriving app developers of ad revenue and eroding their relationship with customers.But Glenn Fogel, CEO of Booking ...

Businesses looking to expand their internal use of artificial intelligence from a select few testers to a large number of workers are hypersensitive to increased costs. Over the last couple of years, that has meant many of their AI projects have never made it out of the pilot phase.Veolia, a ...

Most companies valued at more than $200 billion have imposed a high degree of structure on their organizations as they have grown. That’s not the case at Palantir Technologies. Experienced staff get a say in which projects they work on, according to five people who have worked at the data ...