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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on why AI agents won’t lead to mass unemployment

Benioff says AI agents do 30% to 50% of the work within Salesforce, but the tech isn't reliable enough to take humans out of the loop

30.07.2025 9

Jeremy Kahn

What I learned at Fortune Brainstorm AI Singapore

AI adoption in Asia is charging ahead, despite challenges with AI agents and building "sovereign AI."

29.07.2025 4

Jeremy Kahn

Coding has emerged as genAI’s killer use case. But what if its benefits are a mirage?

New research shows that coders vastly overestimated how much more efficient they were with AI help.

15.07.2025 1

Jeremy Kahn

Companies want AI to be better than the average human. Measuring that isn’t straightforward

Average performance figures can mask critical difference between how AI systems work and how people think.

08.07.2025 6

Jeremy Kahn

Key takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s memo on Meta’s new ‘superintelligence’ AI effort and big hires

The hiring spree and restructuring come as pressure mounts on Zuckerberg to justify Meta's massive capital spend on AI infrastructure

03.07.2025 20

Jeremy Kahn

How AI is impacting lawyers, auditors, and accountants holds lessons for us all

Professionals report finding ROI from AI at a higher rate than those in other industries, but having a clear AI strategy makes a difference, Thomson...

01.07.2025 10

Jeremy Kahn

Can AI help America make stuff again?

A British startup, CloudNC, is reshaping American manufacturing one precision part at a time.

26.06.2025 10

Jeremy Kahn

Insurance companies are embracing AI. But they aren’t talking much about ROI

Allianz and Axa top a new benchmark index of insurance companies' AI prowess.

24.06.2025 5

Jeremy Kahn

Past the event horizon? OpenAI’s Sam Altman says so. New AI research backs him up

Researchers from Sakana AI and Google DeepMind have created AI that can improve its own code.

19.06.2025 4

Jeremy Kahn

AI won’t cure ‘the infinite workday’ unless companies reengineer work, Microsoft says

Automating existing processes provides limited gains. Bigger leaps come from new workflows and organizational structures.

17.06.2025 7

Jeremy Kahn

Exclusive: Easy-to-deploy industrial robot startup emerges from stealth with $8.5 million in seed funding

Backed by prominent European tech founders, Sunrise Robotics is building modular industrial robots to tackle a looming manufacturing labor shortage

13.06.2025 10

Jeremy Kahn

Can AI be used to control safety critical systems? A U.K.-funded research program aims to find out

The U.K.'s ARIA wants to create a 'production facility' where AI will design and test new control algorithms for power grids, biopharmaceutical...

10.06.2025 4

Jeremy Kahn

OpenAI says it wants to support sovereign AI. But it’s not doing so out of the kindness of its heart

OpenAI's chief strategy officer Jason Kwon suggests that capital and data will determine which countries benefit from working with the AI company.

03.06.2025 2

Jeremy Kahn

Microsoft’s and Google’s dueling developer conferences reveal opposite AI strategies—and a big weakness for one company

Microsoft's focus on AI agents for enterprises may be easier to deliver than Google's consumer focus on a universal AI assistant because Microsoft...

22.05.2025 10

Jeremy Kahn

A new AI for making predictions shows the power of more narrowly-focused foundation models

Kumo AI says its new model can make business predictions more accurately than LLMs and more accurately than many small models built specifically to...

20.05.2025 4

Jeremy Kahn

Startup working on ‘reversible computing’ chip for AI says initial tests show a 50% energy savings

Vaire says its chips could be the key to solving the challenge of AI's massive electricity demand

20.05.2025 10

Jeremy Kahn

Samaya AI, startup building AI for financial services, raises $43.5 million in VC funding

NEA led the round for the company, which is also backed by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Meta AI's Yann LeCun, Two Sigma's David Siegel, and former...

14.05.2025 3

Jeremy Kahn

7 key takeaways from Fortune’s Brainstorm AI conference in London

Regulation is not the enemy of innovation was among the many insights from the two-day conference.

13.05.2025 6

Jeremy Kahn

An Apple exec suggested AI chatbots were eroding Google’s search business, sending Alphabet shares plummeting. The truth is more complicated.

Alphabet execs insist search volumes are up, but market share is slipping and revenue growth appears to be slowing.

09.05.2025 8

Jeremy Kahn

OpenAI hires InstaCart CEO Fidji Simo for major leadership role

The move may raise questions about Sam Altman's long-term commitment to remaining OpenAI's CEO

08.05.2025 20

Jeremy Kahn

Microsoft’s strong quarterly earnings show no sign of AI disillusionment—or a Trump tariff hit

The company beat Wall Street forecasts for sales and profits and said its $80 billion data center build continues

01.05.2025 2

Jeremy Kahn

For professional service firms, AI is a big help—but also a potential existential threat

AI is automating key business tasks. But does that mean business consultants will be replaced too?

29.04.2025 4

Jeremy Kahn

ServiceNow’s CEO says company is capitalizing on economic upheaval—and projects revenue growth of more than 18% this year

The company's first quarter earnings beat market expectations and CEO Bill McDermott sees strong growth ahead

24.04.2025 7

Jeremy Kahn

Trump’s restrictions on Nvidia’s China sales may not be enough to contain Beijing’s AI ambitions

The U.S.'s policy goals may not be coherent, while China's own chip efforts and distributed AI training grow more capable.

22.04.2025 3

Jeremy Kahn

Exclusive: Biotech startup Profluent says it has discovered AI ‘scaling laws’ for AI models used in protein design

The company used its new ProGen3 AI model to create novel antibodies and gene editors.

16.04.2025 10

Jeremy Kahn

AI company Hugging Face buys humanoid robot company Pollen Robotics

The purchase will see Hugging Face, best known for open-source AI models, selling hardware for the first time

14.04.2025 5

Jeremy Kahn

Google Cloud moves deeper into open source AI with Ai2 partnership

Google says having open-sourcing models, including their training data, as AI2 does will help it win over customers in government, healthcare, and...

08.04.2025 20

Jeremy Kahn

AI is changing work and how to look for work. A top LinkedIn executive explains how his service is adapting

The professional social network says 70% of the skills needed for your job will change by 2030.

02.04.2025 40

Jeremy Kahn

AI agents are here. How afraid should workers be of losing their jobs?

Nearly one-third of workers already think that AI will lead to fewer jobs.

01.04.2025 8

Jeremy Kahn

In CoreWeave’s lackluster IPO, some see signs of a looming AI bust. But CoreWeave’s problems are mostly about CoreWeave

The company's debt-fueled business model make it a poor proxy for gauging AI enthusiasm more broadly.

28.03.2025 7

Jeremy Kahn

Exclusive: Japanese AI startup CADDi that helps manufacturers optimize supply chains gets $38 million in new funding

Atomico, the London-based venture capital firm, is leading the "Series C" extension for CADDi.

27.03.2025 10

Jeremy Kahn

AI improves both individual and team performance, new study finds. Will companies draw the right lessons from it?

Working with AI gave individuals a big boost. But the most impactful ideas came when AI assisted human teams.

25.03.2025 3

Jeremy Kahn

How news organizations should overhaul their operations as the gen AI threatens their livelihoods

Most news companies are using AI to tweak existing workflows, not rethink their business models.

19.03.2025 10

Jeremy Kahn

AI was everywhere at Mobile World Congress, but there was a hint of desperation too

Network carriers want to be players in the AI revolution, but unlike the handset makers, they don't have a good hand to play.

11.03.2025 3

Jeremy Kahn

Startup aiming to build AI models for chemistry adds two AI ‘godfathers’ to advisory panel as it grabs top research talent from Google

Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun both join advisory board of CuspAI, which aims to find novel materials that can help in the fight against climate change.

05.03.2025 4

Jeremy Kahn

OpenAI launches long-awaited GPT-4.5 — but ‘Orion’s’ capabilities already lag competitors

GPT-4.5 represents the end of an era for OpenAI, as the action shifts to reasoning models

28.02.2025 8

Jeremy Kahn

The Paris AI Action Summit was a fork in the road—but whether the chosen path leads to prosperity or disaster remains unclear

AI Safety, the original purpose of these summits, was sidelined in favor of talk of AI opportunity.

11.02.2025 4

Jeremy Kahn

France, tech companies and philanthropies back $400 million foundation to support public interest AI

The initiative, called Current AI, will fund efforts around new public datasets, open source AI, and public accountability for AI systems

10.02.2025 10

Jeremy Kahn

LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Hugging Face CEO Clemen Delangue sign open letter calling for AI ‘public goods’

Ten prominent tech CEOs and venture capitalists are calling for the creation of public data sets and incentives to develop "small" AI models.

09.02.2025 8

Jeremy Kahn

Exclusive: Ex-Palantir engineers think they can beat Salesforce, Microsoft, and other tech giants at the AI agent game

U.K.-based Fern Labs emerges from ‘stealth’ with $3 million in funding.

03.02.2025 30

Jeremy Kahn

Here’s why Microsoft’s stock got pummeled after it beat revenue and profit forecasts

Investors grow concerned that AI expenses and a looming price war in cloud services could blow up its profits.

31.01.2025 20

Jeremy Kahn

DeepSeek, AI agents, and avoiding a tech-created catastrophe dominated the talk at Davos

Agents bring big benefits—and maybe even bigger risks—AI experts tell CEOs in Davos.

28.01.2025 10

Jeremy Kahn

DeepSeek caused a $600 billion freakout. But China’s AI upstart may not be the danger to Nvidia and U.S. export controls many assume

Jevons Paradox and 'test time compute' mean the need for advanced computer chips may soar, not plummet.

28.01.2025 40

Jeremy Kahn

Lawmakers stop worrying about AI’s existential risk and instead embrace its economic potential

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's endorsement of an AI "action plan" more focused on economic opportunity than societal risks is just one sign of a...

14.01.2025 7

Jeremy Kahn

Why OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AI skeptic Gary Marcus are both wrong about today’s AI

Conversations with AI executives, such as Prosus's Euro Beinat, show AI can have a big impact—but only after a lot of work

07.01.2025 2

Jeremy Kahn

What OpenAI’s o3 means for AI progress and what it means for AI adoption are two different things

The cost of new 'reasoning models' may make companies reluctant to use them, even as their capabilities close in on human-level performance at most...

31.12.2024 5

Jeremy Kahn

Top AI labs aren’t doing enough to ensure AI is safe, a flurry of recent datapoints suggest

A third-party lab caught OpenAI's o1 model trying to deceive, while OpenAI's safety testing has been called into question.

17.12.2024 3

Jeremy Kahn

The world needs more electricity—but don’t blame AI, Microsoft president Brad Smith says

AI's energy consumption is growing, but demand for more power is also coming from manufacturing and electric cars.

03.12.2024 5

Jeremy Kahn

Labeling AI-generated content is not as easy as it seems

A case study of LinkedIn's experience with C2PA content credentials highlights the tech's ongoing challenges.

26.11.2024 5

Jeremy Kahn

At Web Summit last week, no sign of an AI slowdown—even if some wouldn’t mind one

AI application companies are valued on what they can do with today's tech, not on future progress.

20.11.2024 6

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