Skillfully Adding AI To The HHS Pledge On Advancing Best Practices For National Mental Health Care

HHS released a pledge to advance national mental healthcare. I add AI to the six stated principles, since AI will be integral to this. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

Tesco’s AI Agents Could Soon Do Your Shopping For You

Tesco is using AI agents, decades of Clubcard data and new partnerships with Adobe and Mistral to rethink how it serves customers and runs its business.

Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT
Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT

After a former lead writer claimed Saber “replaced me with ChatGPT,” CEO Matthew Karch now claims, “Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI,” for the Rideshare “Stimulator” game announced last month, developed by Unigine. The writer, Stella Sacco, says differently, however, posting on Bluesky that “I was lead writer on this one! […]

Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last

The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.

What to Know About Anthropic’s New Claude Watermarking on AI-Generated Text and Files

Watermarks are invisible signatures that prove where a piece of content originated from.

ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users
ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users

For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google’s fastest-growing product ever. A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn’t the first AI app to hit it. OpenAI’s ChatGPT […]

OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux

OpenAI is finally bringing a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app to Linux operating systems.

Google’s Gemini app surges to one billion users

Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users back in June. 

AI Is Reshaping Workers Before, During And After The Job

AI is reshaping work before, during and after hiring, changing the skills workers need, the leverage they have and how they navigate employment.

Another OpenAI executive takes off
Another OpenAI executive takes off

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s special projects lead and the company’s former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at the AI lab. In an internal memo he later posted to X, Lightcap told colleagues he’d be starting “something new.” “Over the last few months, I’ve been focused on the next horizon and what would stand […]