
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 […]
One of OpenAI’s longest-serving executives is headed out the door, although the longtime COO told staff that he was “excited to help you all advance the mission from a different vantage point.”
River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has a fascinating vision for personal agents and secured $1.1 billion out of the gate.

Google is gearing up to reveal a bunch of new Pixel devices on August 12th. A series of leaks leading up to the event suggest that the Pixel 11 lineup will come in an array of colors, with signs pointing to a built-in light coming to Pro models. Teasers from Google also indicate that it […]
Shoppers are embracing AI-driven “conversational commerce,” but it’s still the human touch that earns brand loyalty.
Pricing for enterprise agentic AI continues to be too complex, but the author has ideas about likely forthcoming improvements — and what enterprises should do now.