Facing new competition in the audiobook market from Spotify, Audible is turning to AI and other technology to enhance the listening experience. On Thursday, the…
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Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay talk AI at Disrupt 2026 |
An AI demo can look brilliant in five minutes. Then customers start using the product. They push it into workflows you didn’t anticipate. They expect…
I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it |
When Alexandru Voica, head of corporate affairs at the video-generation startup Synthesia, sent me a link this summer to the newest addition to their PR…
Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors talk AI at Disrupt 2026 |
An AI chatbot can give you a bad answer. An AI system controlling an aircraft, vehicle, or robot can create an entirely different kind of…
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
How do you interpret the resignation of that Anthropic engineer, who’s saying the companies are reckless and gambling with our lives? On the one hand,…
These Russian Mathematicians Taught AI Models How to Talk to Each Other Without Using Words
I recently met with some brilliant Russian mathematicians who showed me a way for artificial intelligence models to communicate via something akin to machine telepathy.…
The New Friend AI Pendant Can Now Talk Back to You
Friend CEO Avi Schiffmann welcomes me into his palace—what he calls his large apartment in San Francisco. He sits on the couch in his living…
This Startup Wants You to Pay Up to Talk With AI Versions of Human Experts
The company isn’t exactly breaking new ground. The idea of a chatbot standing in for a human is fairly common. As is the idea of…
Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence
Nick Clegg is no AI doomer. But don’t call him a booster, either. The former president of global affairs at Meta says that while he’s…
With co-founders leaving and an IPO looming, Elon Musk turns talk to the moon |
On Tuesday night, Elon Musk gathered the employees of xAI for an all-hands meeting. Evidently, he wanted to talk about the future of his AI…