Accenture Song had two things to show me, both tucked into the corner of a building where the non-profit thinktank SeedAI was hosting an AI showcase at SXSW in Austin, TX. The first was in a small, silver room with a single computer. "When our lawyers saw this, they told us not to release it,"...
Elon Musk just launched a new battle with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Musk and a group of investors are making a $97.4 billion bid to buy OpenAI's nonprofit arm, escalating the fight over the AI company's future, reports The Wall Street Journal. The consortium includes Valor Equity Partners, Baron Capital, Atreides Management, Vy Capital, and...
THE AD: Salesforce's Super Bowl 59 ad shows a drenched Matthew McConaughey seated outdoors at a restaurant, subtly grumbling at being stuck in the rain and served food he doesn't like. His frustration? A booking app without an AI agent to handle his preferences. In contrast, his friends from across the street our seen seated...
OpenAI made its Super Bowl debut with a 60-second spot positioning ChatGPT as the next major leap in human innovation. Airing during the second quarter of Super Bowl 59, the ad titled "The Intelligence Age" draws a throughline from humanity's greatest inventions--fire, airplanes, television--to ChatGPT, which it presents as the next disruptive technology. The spot...
THE AD: Following the Super Bowl ad trope, Meta's two flashy spots lean into celeb power--two Avengers, a Kardashian... and a $6 million banana. In the first ad, Chris Hemsworth and Chris Pratt perambulate through Kris Jenner's art collection asking Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses questions like, "Hey Meta, what's this?" while gazing at Maurizio Cattelan's...
What happens when two Chrises, one Kris, and a pair of AI-powered glasses walk into an art museum? Meta's answer: two 30-second ads for Super Bowl 59 featuring Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, and Kris Jenner, all showcasing its Ray-Ban smart glasses and a little chaos in the art world. In the first spot (running during...
AI startup Plot, which helps brands make sense of short-form video content proliferating across social media platforms, has raised $4.1 million in seed funding. Investors include Alexis Ohanian's venture firm Seven Seven Six, XYZ Capital, and Sophia Amoruso from Trust Fund. The cash injection will go toward product development as Plot expands its AI-powered video...
Artificial intelligence company DeepSeek's model is being cast as China's answer to OpenAI--seemingly throwing Silicon Valley and Wall Street into disarray, wiping out $600 billion in Nvidia's market cap in one day. But while some paint DeepSeek as an AI juggernaut poised to upend the industry, the reality about its capabilities--and the true competitive dynamics--are...
In 2025, generative artificial intelligence will shift from a behind-the-scenes tool to a central driver of innovation in marketing. We can expect the emergence of agent AI 2.0, a new breed of agent AI that will manage complex, real-time tasks. Alongside this shift, tech firms like Apple and Anthropic are poised to become key players,...
