AI Agents Put Creative Control Back On The Table

The use of AI in the creative industry is becoming less a fight over AI taking over creative roles and more over wrangling AI to enable repeatable and predictable outputs that realize creative individual taste.

Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal

If Alphabet’s record-breaking, $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings, we can see that investors are ready to chow.

Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon

Dreambeans is a curated list of AI-illustrated “stories” culled from the personal data in your Google account.

Amazon’s search bar now generates AI product images while you type your query

Amazon has updated its search bar to generate AI product images in real time as you type, while also adding a Shop by Style feature with shoppable AI outfit collages.

7 Ways New Engineers Can Flourish in the Age of AI
7 Ways New Engineers Can Flourish in the Age of AI

New graduates’ careers are unfolding in an era when AI is not optional. The most successful engineers treat artificial intelligence as leverage, not competition.Here are seven tips to help keep young professionals in demand no matter how quickly the f…

As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise
As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise

This week we’ve got tandem hands-ons with Google’s new Gemini AI agent – Spark – from my colleagues David Pierce and Jay Peters. Their takeaways are similar: It’s so effective that it’s scary. Spark knew that David’s dog is named Frida and knew the first name of Jay’s wife, even though neither of them explicitly […]

Instagram is alerting users who were targeted by hackers during AI chatbot attacks

Hackers appeared to take over victims’ accounts even after Meta said it fixed its AI-powered support chatbot, which granted hackers access to victims’ accounts.

Amazon’s search bar will invent AI-generated products you can’t buy
Amazon’s search bar will invent AI-generated products you can’t buy

Amazon’s updated search bar will now show you AI-generated images of products as you describe them. For now, the in-app feature only surfaces AI images of clothing and home goods, allowing you to tap on the image that best matches what you’re looking for and search for similar-looking items. In a blog post, Amazon positions […]

AI Startup Collate Raises $95 Million To Automate Life Sciences Paperwork

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at breakthroughs from ASCO, Harrison.ai’s U.S. expansion, Clear’s move into healthcare and more.

Meetings In The AI Era: Kayak Founder Delivers A Game Plan

A new book by Paul English talks about the value of a well-run meeting.