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• March 13, 2026 13 Mar'26

  C-suite shakeup: Demand for chief AI officers accelerates

  GenAI's infiltration into virtually every aspect of business demands the C-suite make room for a CAIO focused on AI development, strategy, implementation, education and governance.

• January 26, 2026 26 Jan'26

  Humans and AI: The role of people in the new AI world

  With AI now poised to be a capable teammate rather than a mere tool, businesses are struggling to identify where and to what extent human-AI collaboration makes sense.

• January 23, 2026 23 Jan'26

  Context engineering takes prompting to a higher business level

  In the care and feeding of AI models and chatbot interfaces, prompting alone can be a fool's errand in strategic business planning without the proper context to interpret prompts.

• December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

  Who wins -- and loses -- with Trump's AI executive order?

  AI companies are the major winners with Trump's new AI executive order. But what does it mean for end users and enterprises?

• November 10, 2025 10 Nov'25

  Time to promote AI agents from "assistants to associates"?

  Are our humble AI agents turning into valuable AI associates? Learn about the growth of AI agents from experts at this year's EmTech MIT conference.

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• November 07, 2025 07 Nov'25

  Managing trust in the age of AI influence

  Can AI technology foster trust and serve the common good, or will algorithms shape humanity's future for the worse? Experts at EmTech MIT wrestled with the nuances.

• October 17, 2025 17 Oct'25

  AI's effect on jobs not what expected, Yale study finds

  A recent Yale study finds AI is reshaping jobs, automating tasks and boosting demand for analytical and collaborative skills, with overall employment remaining stable.

• September 04, 2025 04 Sep'25

  AI's impact on Google search engine antitrust ruling

  While some believe the ruling was too light, it does emphasize the role of GenAI vendors as competitors in the market.

• September 03, 2025 03 Sep'25

  Anthropic announces $13B fundraise, $183B valuation

  While the vendor's valuation is still far away from OpenAI's, investors still have confidence in the vendor -- especially as it focuses on enterprise safety and coding.

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  The implications of OpenAI's speech model gpt-realtime

  While the new model is beneficial for the expressiveness of voices, it also shows how blurry the lines are between human and AI voices.

• August 27, 2025 27 Aug'25

  Ai2's open source agentic AI platform aids scientific research

  With Asta, researchers can streamline workflows, synthesize evidence and analyze data. However, scientists must be careful about overreliance and hallucinations.

• August 27, 2025 27 Aug'25

  How Meta's $10B cloud deal with Google helps it scale AI

  The move favors both companies: It shows Google's leadership in cloud infrastructure and furthers the social media giant's goal of becoming the leader in AI superintelligence.

• August 26, 2025 26 Aug'25

  Examining Elon Musk's xAI Lawsuit against OpenAI, Apple

  While the lawsuit alleges anticompetitive practices and market monopolization, the case highlights the complexities of proving such claims.

• August 26, 2025 26 Aug'25

  Black Girls Code CEO says Diversity in AI includes everyone

  Cristina Mancini's journey shows that much still needs to be done to accelerate inclusion in technology.

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Google AI Mode, DeepSeek-V3.1 deliver new agentic features

  The cloud provider introduced ways for AI Mode to browse restaurants for reservations, while the Chinese AI vendor upgraded its V3 model.

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  IBM-NASA Surya open source AI model forecasts solar flares

  The new AI model could improve readiness for surges in solar activities that affect communications systems such as GPS. It also affects space weather forecasts.

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Mozilla.ai CEO Dickerson talks open source AI advantages

  Firefox parent Mozilla's AI startup, Mozilla.ai, is focused on building open source products for enterprises to enhance IT infrastructure.

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Meta restructures AI division aiming for superintelligence

  Despite the resources Meta has, it will likely face challenges as it seeks to meet its goal.

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  Grammarly's new AI agents target professionals, students

  The new AI agent features include a plagiarism checker, citation finder and the ability to predict reactions to the content users create.

• August 14, 2025 14 Aug'25

  AI model provider Cohere raises $500M, valuation now $6.8B

  The AI vendor rose to prominence during the same time period as OpenAI and Anthropic, but it seemed to have fallen behind. The new funding shows it still has a play in the AI market.

• August 14, 2025 14 Aug'25

  Alibaba unveils Accio Agent for global trade

  The e-commerce giant's new agent targets tasks such as building a business plan and following through on it.

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Perplexity's Chrome bid shows growing competition in AI search

  The AI search startup's bid comes as the world waits for the final decision following the antitrust case against Google.

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Nvidia new world models power physical AI systems, apps

  The hardware and software vendor's new world models target the development of robotic applications and reasoning in robots.

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  How Cerebras approaches competing against Nvidia

  The AI vendor's director of product marketing says the company first focused on large chips and later turned attention to ramping up inferencing.

• August 07, 2025 07 Aug'25

  OpenAI's GPT-5 is out: Where it shines, and where it doesn't

  Experts say it's an incremental release but shows some strengths that might interest enterprises.

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Google intros array of technical AI agents across its apps

  The tech giant’s latest GenAI offerings arrive amid surging interest in agentic AI technology.

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Belatedly, OpenAI releases 2 new open weight models

  This is a highly anticipated release, as the vendor has received criticism for straying from its open background after GPT-2.

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Thomson Reuters intros agentic AI Deep Research system

  The AI platform uses the company's legal content and tools, such as Westlaw Advantage.

• July 29, 2025 29 Jul'25

  Interpreting the rapid evolution of generative AI systems

  In the two years that 'Targeting AI' has covered the increasingly pervasive world of AI technology, generative AI has become one of the dominant memes in business and society.

• July 24, 2025 24 Jul'25

  Why Apple is ripe for an AI acquisition to improve Siri

  Following WWDC, questions mount over the company's GenAI approach. An acquisition may be necessary for it to gain ground in GenAI.

• July 23, 2025 23 Jul'25

  White House AI plan places scrutiny on state AI laws

  While the White House wants to ensure U.S. companies can export AI products, it's considering new export controls for semiconductor manufacturing subsystems.

• July 23, 2025 23 Jul'25

  Google advances Gemini with low-cost Flash-Lite 2.5

  The cloud provider's model release targets businesses looking for performance, cost-effectiveness and precision.

• July 18, 2025 18 Jul'25

  Data-driven AI: How AWS partners and customers operate

  A key factor is driving how organizations like The Ocean Cleanup and Dine Brands apply AWS' technology to their applications and needs.

• July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

  Google adds new features in Search as AI race intensifies

  The tech giant added more GenAI features to AI Mode, and a new business calling system. The updates respond to growing rivalry in AI search from vendors like OpenAI and Perplexity.

• July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

  TSMC's profit soars as AI chips boom globally

  The Taiwan-based company, which manufactures a large portion of the world's semiconductors, saw booming profit and revenue in its most recent earnings report.

• July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25

  AI training, copyright issues headline U.S. Senate hearing

  U.S. senators blasted companies, including Meta and Anthropic, for training AI models on copyrighted content, including pirated books and other materials.

• July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25

  AWS launches AgentCore system and agentic marketplace

  The cloud provider introduced a service that includes capabilities that help agents perform at a bigger scale. It also unveiled a new marketplace.

• July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

  Database vendor MongoDB embraces GenAI

  The vendor has moved quickly to incorporate technologies such as vector search that are integral to generative AI.

• July 14, 2025 14 Jul'25

  China startup Moonshot AI rivals U.S. with cheap open model

  A Chinese startup is out with an open source trillion-parameter model that excels at coding and agentic tasks. It outperforms Western competitors on some benchmarks.

• July 10, 2025 10 Jul'25

  XAI releases Grok 4 amid furor over antisemitic comments

  Elon Musk's xAI launches the latest model amid backlash over antisemitic responses by the previous version. Meanwhile, startup Perplexity releases Comet, an AI browser.

• July 08, 2025 08 Jul'25

  Cerebras launches Alibaba model, forms key AI partnerships

  The vendor expanded Alibaba's Qwen3-235B context window to 131k. It also formed strategic partnerships with DataRobot, Notion and other companies.

• July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

  Amazon foundation model for robots shows what's possible

  The vendor created the new model with Amazon SageMaker, showing what's possible with the platform and that models do not have to be language models to provide business value.

• July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

  Senate's 'One Big, Beautiful Bill' affects AI, U.S. energy

  The massive tax bill passed by the Senate represents a shift in U.S. energy policy and opens a window for Congress to move on a federal AI framework.

• July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

  Diverse data, ethical use key to responsible AI engineering

  Karen Panetta's engineering journey led her to identify critical bias in facial recognition systems and champion transparent technology that protects human welfare.

• June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

  Baidu makes foundation model Ernie 4.5 open source

  The China-based AI vendor has contributed to the open source community before. The release of the family of open models highlights the growth of the open source community in GenAI.

• June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

  ChatGPT advanced AI, but OpenAI faces hurdles in keeping lead

  Model makers disrupted AI, pushing Google to innovate and boosting Microsoft. Yet four years later, enterprises remain loyal to cloud providers, leaving the survival of the startups uncertain.

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  Fair use rulings favor Meta and Anthropic but are limited

  While the judges agreed with the fair use argument, it doesn't mean other lawsuits will have the same ruling. It's also likely that the Supreme Court will be the ultimate decider.

• June 24, 2025 24 Jun'25

  AI-generated deepfakes spread in Israel-Iran-U.S. conflict

  Bad actors have used AI technology for more than a decade to spread misinformation and disinformation. However, the tools are getting more sophisticated and difficult to detect.

• June 24, 2025 24 Jun'25

  HPE beefs up AI factory-fueled offerings with Nvidia upgrades

  The vendor says its upgraded Private Cloud AI will offer a turnkey tool for enterprise, leaning on agentic AI and partnerships with Nvidia and Accenture.

• June 24, 2025 24 Jun'25

  AI agents increasingly viable for enterprise use

  AI agent use is ramping up, with development environments leading the charge. Governance and agent building are also on the rise.

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  Pendo launches platform to analyze AI agent performance

  The company said its new platform will enable businesses to track agentic AI software and optimize performance.

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  Apple AI paper likely self-serving but has some merit

  Although the iPhone maker appears to be trying to draw attention away from the fact that it's behind in LLMs, the point it makes might still be valid.

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  Oracle adds xAI Grok models to OCI

  The move is customer-focused, as the tech giant aims to offer the models for applications such as content generation, research and business process automation.

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  Pegasystems founder and CEO Alan Trefler on future of GenAI

  The tech pioneer is optimistic about generative AI -- as long as users are aware of its capacity for mistakes.

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  Meta introduces new world model for robots and agents

  The social media giant's new V-JEPA 2 helps robots and agents learn more about the real world. It comes as the vendor seeks to be more competitive in GenAI.

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  What differentiates Mistral AI reasoning model Magistral

  Magistral is available in two versions. The vendor has also focused on traceable reasoning, which is important for heavily regulated industries.

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  AI legal battles: U.K. trial and new U.S. lawsuit unfold

  Getty Images fights Stability AI over copyright infringement in the U.K. courts, while Reddit sues Anthropic for contract breach over unauthorized data scraping for AI training.

• June 06, 2025 06 Jun'25

  IBM launches Watsonx AI Labs, acquires Seek AI

  The company said its new startup incubator will give AI developers access to tools and expertise to build enterprise AI applications.

• June 03, 2025 03 Jun'25

  Exploring Nvidia's approach to AI factories

  The AI hardware and software provider is focusing on building massive data centers that do everything in the AI lifecycle, from data ingestion to inferencing and fine-tuning.

• May 30, 2025 30 May'25

  Grammarly secures $1B in funding as it plans for the future

  General Catalyst's investment shows confidence in Grammarly's AI and language expertise. The vendor plans to transition from an AI tool to a communications and productivity platform.

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  The New York Times in multiyear licensing deal with Amazon

  This is the first licensing agreement the publisher has made with a company in the GenAI era. It is indicative of a trend in media, as many publishers partner with AI vendors.

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  How AI helps Henry Schein One's accounts payable team

  The big healthcare product company's dental software division turned to AI automation startup Pipefy to transform a paper-based system into a digital one.

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  AI upskilling strategies that center workers, not tech

  At MIT's Sloan CIO Symposium, experts emphasized that AI upskilling starts with what humans do best, pairing hands-on learning with inclusive, contextualized strategies.

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  Anthropic intros next generation of Claude AI models

  The models are designed for coding. Opus 4 helps with sustained coding tasks, and Sonnet 4 replaces 3.7 Sonnet. The models give insight into a shift in the GenAI market.

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  How Harvard is approaching AI in the classroom

  Generative AI is already changing classrooms and student behavior. At Harvard, that's prompting faculty to reexamine how they teach and how they assess real learning.

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Mistral AI intros Devstral, new coding LLM

  The model is aimed at coders. It expands the coding context window and focuses on enhancing current code. The LLM also shows what is possible with agentic technology.

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Google expands Gemini model, Search as AI rivals encroach

  The tech giant introduced a slew of new generative AI capabilities as the pace of innovation in search technology intensifies.

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Nvidia AI platform for cloud GPU providers widens supply

  The vendor is addressing the AI chip supply and demand challenge while also helping some lower-tier cloud GPU providers that are facing challenges in the GPU-as-a-service market.

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  AI and humans will work together in the future

  There are contrasting perspectives on AI and jobs. For Asana, however, AI technology will enhance workers and be a collaborator.

• May 16, 2025 16 May'25

  AWS intros Strands Agents SDK

  Many developers find agentic AI difficult, so the new SDK is meant to help them deploy the technology and connect models and tools. The toolkit also aligns with AWS' SDLC strategy.

• May 15, 2025 15 May'25

  Together AI acquires startup to improve data quality

  The startup has a family of models for data tasks. The acquisition adds complementary capabilities to improve AI model quality.

• May 13, 2025 13 May'25

  Nvidia, AMD, others tout AI partnerships with Saudi Arabia

  The U.S. tech involvement follows a long-term plan for the country to become an AI hub by 2030. Vendors get access to energy resources, and Saudi Arabia benefits from AI chips.

• May 13, 2025 13 May'25

  Automation Anywhere adds reasoning to agentic AI platform

  The robotic process automation vendor's agentic process automation platform now has a reasoning engine that can understand enterprise context and help with agentic orchestration.

• May 13, 2025 13 May'25

  AI copyright suits to be affected by Copyright Office stance

  Federal report findings could weaken GenAI vendors' fair use positions in copyright suits.

• May 13, 2025 13 May'25

  USAA takes an 'experiment and see' approach with AI

  The financial services company experiments with different models and AI tools and technologies. It uses AI technology both internally and externally.

• May 09, 2025 09 May'25

  How business leaders are measuring generative AI's ROI

  At EmTech AI, generative AI's value was top of mind. But real ROI depends on business fundamentals like change management and clear success metrics.

• May 08, 2025 08 May'25

  Why enterprise AI is moving toward customization

  At MIT's EmTech AI conference, tech leaders emphasized the value of purpose-built systems designed to support real business workflows.

• May 08, 2025 08 May'25

  Trump targets AI diffusion rule as big tech talks AI race

  President Donald Trump will walk back a Biden-era rule restricting the sale of advanced U.S. AI chips and models in the month it's set to take effect.

• May 06, 2025 06 May'25

  IBM customers assess the performance of AI agents

  Enterprises are carefully watching the popular technology. While some see agents as too immature relative to what vendors promise, others are slowly integrating them.

• May 06, 2025 06 May'25

  Staying nonprofit could slow, not stop, OpenAI fundraising

  The GenAI vendor could find itself slowing down after its decision to retain a nonprofit ownership structure, at least for now.

• May 06, 2025 06 May'25

  GenAI assists writing platform Grammarly in AI strategy

  The vendor uses a testing mechanism to show organizations how it has improved using its GenAI assistant. This is an example of the vendor moving beyond just being a proofreader.

• May 06, 2025 06 May'25

  IBM targets agentic AI orchestration

  The long-established vendor launched agent-building tools, prebuilt agents, and orchestration and integration capabilities for enterprises to integrate with major vendor platforms.

• May 01, 2025 01 May'25

  What Amazon Nova Premier reveals about AI models and agents

  While the model is not unique, the vendor said it is the fastest and most cost-effective model in Amazon Bedrock at its intelligence level, which might appeal to some enterprises.

• May 01, 2025 01 May'25

  What Meta's new AI app means for OpenAI

  The social media giant's new app directly rivals ChatGPT. This could mean that the ChatGPT creator needs to improve its tools, or it could trigger a slip for OpenAI.

• April 30, 2025 30 Apr'25

  AI creators need to have women in the room

  AI technology is growing, but biases and systemic challenges remain for women seeking to enter the field. This means that the tools themselves lack representation.

• April 28, 2025 28 Apr'25

  Deriving ROI from AI is more than just monetary value

  While some enterprises can see the business value from their AI initiatives relatively quickly in terms of financial value, others see it in the efficiency of their employees.

• April 28, 2025 28 Apr'25

  AI adoption hovers around 25% for office workers

  Perficient and Thomson Reuters surveys show that AI adoption is limited in some sectors, but there's lots of experimentation and evaluation happening.

• April 25, 2025 25 Apr'25

  Perplexity is on iOS, but problems remain for AI search firm

  The vendor faces many complex situations that might prevent users from setting it as their devices' default voice assistant. Users may instead move toward Siri.

• April 24, 2025 24 Apr'25

  Nvidia, OpenAI intro tools for agentic AI, creating images

  The vendors add to the numerous tools available in the generative AI market with a new system for building and managing agents and a high-quality image generator.

• April 23, 2025 23 Apr'25

  Tariffs not likely to undermine Nvidia's AI dominance

  Tariffs and restrictions on exports could mean more competition for the world's top AI hardware company. However, the vendor will still likely keep its lead in the AI chip market.

• April 22, 2025 22 Apr'25

  The AI market does not understand AI safety

  Responsible AI is often misunderstood as a way to make sure that a model is safe. However, AI safety examines whether harmful content is being produced or not.

• April 17, 2025 17 Apr'25

  AI companies claim existing rules can govern agentic AI

  AI agents are trained to perform tasks autonomously. Vendors including Meta, OpenAI and others offer platforms for businesses to build their own AI agents.

• April 17, 2025 17 Apr'25

  What's new and not new with OpenAI's latest reasoning models

  The o3 and o4-mini models are supposed to be better than previous models. While they have improved abilities that can be seen as agentic, the upgrades are mostly incremental.

• April 15, 2025 15 Apr'25

  OpenAI's GPT-4.1 targets coding for developers

  The new family of models is aimed at making developers code better. It includes OpenAI's first nano model.

• April 11, 2025 11 Apr'25

  GenAI vendor Writer releases agentic platform for business

  The platform is geared for business users, the vendor's primary targets. However, it must compete with bigger tech companies' agentic tools.

• April 10, 2025 10 Apr'25

  With Llama 4, Meta ups stakes in open model race

  Models in the new Llama 4 family compete with open source offerings, most notably from Chinese upstart DeepSeek.

• April 09, 2025 09 Apr'25

  Google intros agent building tools and an agent protocol

  The tech giant introduced a new agent development kit. It also introduced enhanced reasoning capabilities and new features for its multimodal models.

• April 08, 2025 08 Apr'25

  Policymakers weigh U.S.-China AI competition after DeepSeek

  Boosting federal R&D, sustaining export controls and creating a federal AI framework are a few suggestions experts made to help maintain the U.S. lead in AI.

• April 08, 2025 08 Apr'25

  Siemens follows the path of industrial AI

  The global tech conglomerate has adapted generative AI technology to create intelligent systems to control machines.

• April 03, 2025 03 Apr'25

  Qualcomm seeks AI expansion with possible Alphawave buy

  Qualcomm eyes Alphawave acquisition and buys research firm MovianAI to enhance its AI infrastructure portfolio, which includes an AI accelerator for model inference.