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 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.

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! […]
The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.
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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 […]
Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users back in June.
AI is reshaping work before, during and after hiring, changing the skills workers need, the leverage they have and how they navigate employment.

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 […]