Airbnb is accessed by about 1.6 billion devices per year, according to CEO Brian Chesky, “but we’re not a frequently used app.”
To address this, the company is investing in refining its mobile app, streamlining the booking process, and offering a more tailored experience, Chesky explained during Airbnb’s fourth-quarter earnings Thursday (Feb. 13). This ties directly to Airbnb’s overarching...
From its genesis as a small nonprofit startup in Silicon Valley in 2015, OpenAI has transformed itself into the top artificial intelligence (AI) company today, a status minted by ChatGPT, the most widely used AI chatbot in the world.
Its ambitions are nothing short of grand: Last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stood with President Trump, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison...
A federal judge reportedly granted a joint request by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and cryptocurrency exchange Binance to put the SEC’s civil lawsuit against the company on hold.
The hold will last for 60 days, Reuters reported Thursday (Feb. 13).
It was reported Tuesday (Feb. 11) that the SEC, Binance and Binance Co-founder Changpeng Zhao submitted a joint motion in court asking...
The holiday splurge has passed — and now comes the holiday hangover?
The New York Federal Reserve detailed in its most recent report, “Household Debt and Credit,” that consumers loaded up on their credit cards in the fourth quarter of the year — which encompassed the holiday shopping season lasting through November and December. Card balances surged by $45 billion, even while delinquency rates...
Chip designer Arm reportedly plans to become a chip manufacturer.
Arm, which has traditionally designed chips and licensed those designs to companies like Apple and Nvidia, plans to introduce the first chip it made in-house as soon as this summer, the Financial Times (FT) reported Thursday (Feb. 13).
One of the SoftBank-owned company’s first customers for its new chip is Meta, according to the...
The healthcare industry is turning to digital tools and technologies to improve patient care. From artificial intelligence (AI) and telehealth to robotics and AI-driven diagnostics, these innovations are changing how healthcare is delivered.
However, experts like Andrew Speight, CMO at RXNT, stress that while these advancements can elevate patient care, they cannot replace the critical role of...
SAP and Databricks announced a new partnership and product that makes it easier for customers to unify all their data by combining their SAP data with the rest of their enterprise data.
The new SAP Databricks product natively integrates the Databricks Data Intelligence Cloud within the newly launched SAP Business Data Cloud, the companies said in a Thursday (Feb. 13) press release.
The product...
Artificial intelligence agents can transform a small staff into a productive workforce that can tackle tasks typically handled by larger teams.
While most people are familiar with AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Perplexity AI or Claude, AI agents are the next level for productivity at work. They provide information like chatbots, and they do the task.
They can also manage other AI agents in more...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the next advanced version of its GPT large language model series will be coming in “weeks or months,” according to a post he shared on X.
Altman said the next artificial intelligence (AI) model the company will ship is GPT-4.5. It was internally nicknamed “Orion” and will be OpenAI’s last non-reasoning model.
Altman also said OpenAI plans to better organize its AI...
Digits has added an artificial intelligence (AI) invoicing solution to its AI accounting platform designed for startups and small businesses.
The new AI Invoicing enables business owners to generate, send and track invoices in seconds, the company said in a Wednesday (Feb. 12) press release.
“Our new solution simplifies and automates your [accounts receivable (AR)] workflows, saving you countless...