Discord, the instant-messaging app favored by video gamers, is launching a product that offers rewards for online play, part of an effort to generate a profit at the company this year. Quests, as the product is called, let Discord users try out new games with friends and win stuff, Chief Executive O...

Generative AI search engine Perplexity, which claims to be a Google competitor and recently snagged a $73.6 million Series B funding from investors like Jeff Bezos, is going to start selling ads, the company told ADWEEK. Perplexity uses AI to answer users’ questions, based on web sources. It incor...

Sitting in front of the TV as a child, Wendy Lawrence watched the Apollo moon missions, which sparked her 25-year journey to make it to space. In that journey, Lawrence became a Navy captain, helicopter pilot, and in 1992, was selected by NASA to trek into space. Lawrence said her first mission to s...

Google has begun rolling out a feature that gives shoppers more personalized results. As the search giant announced in a Wednesday (March 27) blog entry, the service will launch first in the U.S. for shoppers using mobile browsers and the Google app. When those users search for certain clothing, sho...

This past Monday, about a dozen engineers and executives at data science and AI company Databricks gathered in conference rooms connected via Zoom to learn if they had succeeded in building a top artificial intelligence language model. The team had spent months, and about $10 million, training DBRX,...

Apple is more private and secure than Android. That has been Apple’s mantra since the beginning, governing its approach. But those differences are diminishing, as Google ramps up its security and privacy and Apple makes concessions of its own. Cue the latest news from China. According to local med...

Chinese media is reporting that Apple is buying AI services from local tech giant Baidu. The WSJ had earlier reported that the iPhone maker had been in discussions with the company, to use its AI smarts in iOS 18. Baudi operates a ChatGPT-style LLM known as ERNIE Bot, which claims to “comprehend h...

Human-AI relationships are no longer science fiction. With the AI market projected to soar to a staggering $407 billion by 2027, the fusion of artificial intelligence into our daily lives has become inevitable. In this era of change, AI is also reshaping social interactions and, seemingly, the way w...