AI Business & Market

Photo collage showing a robotic hand holding the handles of a bunch of shopping bags.

Would you give AI your credit card?

With the release of new AI shopping tools, including from Meta and TikTok, companies are trying to make buying things online even more convenient. Maybe too convenient.

Whizy Kim

It’s bring-your-AI-to-work day at SpaceX

SpaceX has found a new AI training dataset: its own employees. It’s the second major tech company to try harnessing the knowledge of its workers to build more intelligent and autonomous AI agents.

Whizy Kim

Gemini, ChatGPT, Inkling, Claude, Kimi logos in a vending machine

Maybe you don’t need the brand name AI

With cheaper open-weight AI models arriving on the market, consumers have more choice—and frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic may feel pressure to lower prices.

Whizy Kim

Human hand and robot hand reaching for each other with a glow

A companion for you, a “body” for ChatGPT

OpenAI’s first hardware device might be a machine you’re meant to bond with—but AI companions are a social and political minefield.

Whizy Kim

Photo illustration showing a close-up of a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge with the cityscape of San Francisco in the background, and the suspender cables of the bridge become the lines in the US dollar sign.

The new tech elite is here

AI money is reshaping who counts as “rich” in San Francisco, as OpenAI and Anthropic mint a new tech elite. It could be a preview of the broader AI-driven inequality to come.

Whizy Kim

How low can tokens go?

OpenAI is considering slashing token prices before Anthropic beats it to the punch, teeing up a pre-IPO price war as customers grow more wary of AI’s high costs.

Whizy Kim

Apple CEO Tim Cook waves enthusiastically, walking in front of WWDC25 stage signage

Apple’s AI reset attempt

Here’s what to expect at Apple’s WWDC conference next week.

Lindsey Choo