Consulting giant's workforce strategy reflects broader industry shift as companies reshape talent for the artificial intelligence era
- By John K. Waters
- 09/26/2025
MIT Media Lab's Project NANDA has delivered a blunt verdict on the generative AI gold rush: despite $30–40 billion in enterprise spend, almost none of it is paying off.
In 2025, software development no longer happens without AI. What began as an optional coding assistant has become a near-universal presence in the developer's toolkit. Google Cloud's latest DORA Report, an annual benchmark for software engineering practices, captures this seismic shift: 90% of technology professionals now use AI at work, up 14% from last year.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/23/2025
Adoption of AI tools is growing quickly but remains uneven across countries and industries, with higher-income economies using them far more per person and companies favoring automated deployments over collaborative ones, according to a study released by Anthropic.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/16/2025
OpenAI has brought in a finance executive from one of its fiercest rivals. The company confirmed Tuesday that Mike Liberatore, the former chief financial officer at Elon Musk’s xAI, has joined as OpenAI’s business finance officer. He will report to CFO Sarah Friar and work closely with Greg Brockman’s team on the company’s most pressing bottleneck: compute.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/16/2025
OpenAI on Tuesday said it is developing a separate version of ChatGPT for teenagers and will use an age-prediction system to steer users under 18 away from the standard product, as U.S. lawmakers and regulators intensify scrutiny of chatbot risks to minors.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/16/2025
OpenAI says it will launch an AI-powered hiring platform by mid-2026, directly competing with LinkedIn and Indeed in the professional networking and recruitment space. The company announced the initiative alongside an expanded certification program designed to verify AI skills for job seekers.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/09/2025
ChatGPT continues to dominate the generative AI market with nearly 80% of web traffic among tracked platforms, according to new usage data from digital intelligence firm Similarweb. The lead may strengthen following OpenAI's confirmed expansion to Google Cloud infrastructure.
Microsoft Corp has signed a five-year agreement with Nebius Group to provide AI computing infrastructure worth at least $17.4 billion, addressing capacity constraints in the technology giant's cloud services division.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/09/2025
OpenAI announced Tuesday it will strengthen safety measures in ChatGPT to better detect and respond to users experiencing mental health crises, following a lawsuit filed by parents whose teenage son died by suicide after extensive interactions with the AI chatbot.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/28/2025
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has sued Apple and OpenAI in a U.S. federal court in Texas, alleging that they conspired to stifle competition in the fast-growing AI sector.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/26/2025
Anthropic has begun testing a Chrome browser extension that enables its Claude AI assistant to perform tasks directly within users' web browsers.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/26/2025
Google today introduced Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, marking a significant advancement in artificial intelligence systems that can understand and manipulate visual content through natural language processing.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/26/2025