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[ad_1] After the success of OpenAI’s video editing app Sora, now at the top of the U.S. App Store, Google may be looking to give its Gemini AI app a more visually focused revamp. The company is seemingly experimenting with a new user interface that would shift the app from having a chatbot-style look and feel to one offering a scrollable feed with suggested prompts accompanied by eye-catching photos. The changes were spotted in a recent version of the Gemini Android app by the news site Android Authority, but are not yet live to the public. Instead, by looking into…

[ad_1] As the saying goes, “All publicity is good publicity.”Friend CEO Avi Schiffman said the response to his company’s seven-figure ad buy for the New York City subway has been “entertaining” during Thursday’s episode of Alex Heath and Ellis Hamburger’s “Access” podcast.Friend is an AI companion in the form of a pendant necklace. The pendant listens to conversations unprompted and can respond through a related app on the user’s phone.Last month, Schiffman told AdWeek that Friend spent more than $1 million on the print ad campaign, which included over 11,000 subway car ads, over 1,000 platform posters, and 130 urban panels.New…

[ad_1] Meta is ramping up the pressure for its employees to use AI.The Facebook parent company is tracking how extensively its teams are using AI through dashboards it rolled out earlier this year, and it created a game to boost employees’ usage, Business Insider has learned.Expectations around AI usage vary by teams. Staff in some departments are encouraged to play with AI tools, while others are being pushed to meet specific targets, according to four current employees.Across Big Tech, companies are dangling both carrots and sticks to get employees on board with AI.At Meta, engineers and staff are nudged to…

[ad_1] It’s been a whirlwind year for the vibe-coding world’s database of choice: Supabase. On Friday, Supabase announced that it raised a fresh $100 million Series E at a $5 billion valuation, led by Accel and Peak XV. This is just four months after closing its $200 million Series D at a $2 billion valuation, led by Accel. And that Series D was just seven months after raising an $80 million Series C led by Sequoia spinoff Peak XV and David Sacks’ Craft Ventures at an undisclosed valuation. PitchBook estimated Supabase was valued at around $765 million in that deal,…

[ad_1] Goldman Sachs refreshed its “Director’s Cut” list of buy-rated companies for October, adding four new names to its collection of recommended stocks. The investment firm added Abbott Laboratories , Air Products , Hershey and Madison Square Garden Entertainment to its US Conviction List, according to an analyst note on Wednesday. Goldman analysts removed Pinterest , Uber Technologies and OneStream from the list. October is typically a lukewarm month for the stock market. Over the past 50 years, the S & P 500 Index has averaged a return of 0.8% for the month. However, October has seen two massive market…

[ad_1] OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is already thinking about his next gig.His next move isn’t another AI startup or a moonshot tech venture, however, it’s something surprisingly grounded.Altman wants to become a farmer.”I think there will come a time when AI can be a much better CEO of OpenAI than me, and I will be nothing but enthusiastic the day that happens,” he told Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner in an interview this week.At the top of the list is tending to his farm.”I have a farm that I live some of the time and I really love it,” he…

[ad_1] Google Search’s superpower has always been its ability to convert: detecting when a query has commercial intent and serving a relevant, high-quality ad to ready-to-buy shoppers. Yet, while advertisers narrowly focused on transactions or leads, AI has long been an unseen partner, quietly facilitating discovery.New AI-powered experiences in Google Search like AI Mode and AI Overviews are creating even more opportunities for discovery. Today, users are engaged in more complex, conversational queries that reveal the deeper “why” behind their interests. For example, instead of a short, basic search like “how to clean wood floors,” a user might ask, “What’s…

[ad_1] OpenAI’s Sora app for AI videos is a viral hit, despite being invite-only for now and limited to users in the U.S. and Canada at launch. On its first day, Sora saw 56,000 downloads, and is now ranked as the No. 3 Top Overall app on Apple’s U.S. App Store, according to new data from app intelligence provider Appfigures. On Friday, October 3, it became the No. 1 app on the U.S. App Store. That puts it ahead of Google Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The firm estimates Sora’s iOS app pulled in a total of 164,000 installs during its…

[ad_1] When Apple pulled ICEBlock off its app store Thursday, it wasn’t just taking down a controversial app.It was showing Americans what the rest of the world already knows: A handful of huge tech companies control the choke points of modern life — and when governments lean on Big Tech, they can use those choke points themselves.For years, this was a mostly theoretical problem, or at worst, a developer gripe about App Store fees. The stakes were commercial, not civic.But in 2025, the US government has twice pressed tech gatekeepers into service — first with TikTok, now with ICEBlock —…

[ad_1] 2025-10-03T16:12:56Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. OpenAI’s app for AI-generated video became the most-downloaded title in the Apple App Store on Friday. Sora took the top spot, beating out Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. OpenAI released the invite-only video app earlier this week. OpenAI’s AI-generated video app has reached the top of the app…