OpenAI’s CEO says the generative artificial intelligence (AI) startup has reached approximately 800 million people. “Something like 10% of the world uses our systems, now a lot,” said Sam Altman, whose comments at a Friday (April 11) TED 2025 event were reported by Seeking Alpha. ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI) has reportedly raised $6 billion in new funding. The round, as reported Friday (April 11) by the Financial Times (FT), values the company at $32 billion, a more than sixfold increase from the last time the firm raised...
Customer relationship management (CRM) giant Salesforce is seeing “massive” growth in its data cloud platform, fueled by interest in generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) from enterprises, according to one of the company’s senior executives. In an exclusive interview with PYMNTS, Gabrielle Tao, senior vice...
Anthropic has debuted a higher-priced subscription version of its Claude artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. The startup’s Max plan, announced Wednesday (April 9), is designed for users who work extensively with Claude and require expanded access for their most important tasks. This plan also gives users priority access to...
Meta’s latest open-source AI models are a shot across the bow to the more expensive closed models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and others. But it’s good news for businesses because they could potentially lower the cost of deploying artificial intelligence (AI), according to experts. The...
The Trump tariffs are continuing to roil the business world, plunging the U.S. stock market dangerously close to bear territory. External forces like trade policies mean companies have limited leeway on how to protect themselves. “Tariffs, like any crisis, are extremely dynamic — and the...
Venture capital firm SignalFire has raised more than $1 billion in new capital to invest in artificial intelligence (AI) startups. It now has a total of $3 billion under management, according to a Monday (April 7) news release. The funding will go toward seed to...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is gaining traction among U.S. consumers across all age groups, according to a new PYMNTS Intelligence report, even as enthusiasm cools for voice assistants. The study, titled “GenAI and Voice Assistants: Adoption and Trust Across Generations,” reveals changing consumer preferences concerning...
Shopify now considers the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by employees to be a “baseline expectation,” CEO Tobias Lütke said in an internal memo that he posted on X after learning it had been leaked. Using AI is critical at a time when merchants and...
