Netflix hopes employees across the company will develop an “aspiration for AI fluency” as the technology reshapes the way work is done, a senior executive said. Elizabeth Stone, Netflix’s chief product and technology officer, said in an episode of “Lenny’s Podcast” released Sunday that the streaming giant is encouraging all employees, from new hires to
AI infrastructure company Infinity on Monday announced a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers at companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. The startup is creating software to make it easier for AI chips to run AI models. A big reason why Nvidia became the top
AI agents are starting to perform more sophisticated tasks, such as identifying suppliers that can deliver cargo, comparing prices, and sending messages to the supplier to arrange a delivery. But when it comes to paying for shipping, they still need to involve a human. Today’s financial sector depends on financial pathways, the underlying infrastructure that
The impressive capabilities of Chinese lab Moonshot’s Kimi K3, the largest open-weight large language model, have started a debate that combines two things: the economic possibilities of American AI giants and the future of LLMs as a technology. OpenAI’s head of strategic futures, Dean W. Ball, went so far as to argue that the US
Agility Robotics has a new center in Silicon Valley, where it will attract more world-class engineers to join the humanoid maker. Just don’t expect the startup to get into a spending war for talent. Jonathan Hurst, Agility’s co-founder and chief robot officer, told Business Insider that his company has no interest in joining the growing
Chris Fall, director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), has resigned, the agency confirmed to several media outlets. He was appointed just three months ago after the last appointee, Collin Burns, left in less than a week, The Washington Post reported at the time. Burns was reportedly “ousted” from the job in