The Shopify CEO didn’t have enough wine to fill his cellar, but he had plenty of uses for an AI system. Speaking with Alex Heath on an episode of the Sources podcast released on Wednesday, Tobi Lütke said he consulted his “inner 16-year-old” before converting the underused room into a home for computing hardware. “So
Meta’s new personal AI agent, Muse, gives Mark Zuckerberg another chance to build the kind of technology platform he has chased for years. Muse jumped to the top of the App Store last week and remained the most downloaded free app on Monday, beating ChatGPT. If enough people use Muse as their main way to
The tech leaders who once hailed AI use as the key to unlocking every employee’s full potential are now changing their tune. This includes Shopify cofounder and CEO Tobias Lütke. He told employees last year that using AI is “a baseline expectation,” and they should first prove they “cannot get what they want done using
AI makes tech jobs easier. Right? Not always, Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke said during an interview on “The Knowledge Project” podcast, released on Tuesday. His take: AI helps employees produce more material, more quickly — without taking responsibility for whether it is useful or correct. “We call those ‘slop grenades’ that people toss at each
E-commerce software maker Shopify seems to be benefiting handily from people using AI to search. On the company’s second-quarter earnings call, Shopify President Harley Finkelstein said AI has become a “complement to search, rather than a substitute for it,” and had particularly benefited the long tail of e-commerce, including the smaller merchants that make up
