Study reveals companies gaining nothing from AI hype | Vantage on Firstpost
Palki Sharma • 7 days agoAccording to a study by MIT 95 percent of the companies have not seen any measurable return on AI investment. It was promised by some tech professionals that AI will revolutionise their business. Some AI tools like Meta and OpenAI are already turning this into business revenue by introducing chatbots. Is AI the next dot-com bubble or just a learning tool?
AI is real but in an industrial bubble: Jeff Bezos warns against funding 'bad ideas'
Fp Staff • 8 days agoJeff Bezos warns of an AI “industrial bubble” amid high valuations but predicts the technology will bring major societal benefits in the long term.
Can China OutSpace OpenAI with Alibaba's AI gamble?| Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G
Palki Sharma • 10 days agoAlibaba launched Qwen3-Max, a trillion-parameter model with autonomous agent capabilities, who is able to plan and execute complex tasks on its own at a recent conference. Being a B2B marketplace is revamping itself to become a giant leader in AI. With over $53 billion in AI investment Alibaba is planning to revile an AI model. This could be China's move to become a competitor in the AI battlefield on the global stage or establish it's own name in the AI sector. Will it work? Palki Sharma tells you.
Why an AI actor has irked Hollywood
Fp Explainers • 11 days agoTilly Norwood, an AI actor, has triggered outrage in Hollywood. A-listers like Emily Blunt have criticised the synthetic performer created by Dutch comedian, writer and actress Eline Van der Velden. But why is the industry up in arms?
China now has more factory robots than rest of the world combined: 2 mn at work
Fp Staff • 16 days agoFuelled by state subsidies and industrial strategy, China’s factories now employ over two million robots, more than the rest of the world combined
Will you lose your job if you don't learn to use AI? Accenture says will ‘exit’ staff unable to reskill
Fp Staff • 16 days agoBy the end of August, Accenture had hired only 779,000 people, down from 791,000 three months earlier. The company is also conducting layoff drives currently that will continue till the end of November
'Deeply troubling pattern': Musk's xAI accuses OpenAI of 'stealing' trade secrets
Fp Staff • 16 days agoThe lawsuit claims that OpenAI was engaged in a “deeply troubling pattern” of hiring former xAI employees to gain access to the trade secrets of its AI chatbot Grok. It further said that Altman's company is pursuing unfair advantages in the race to develop AI technology
Is AI boom the new dot-com bubble? Investors rethinking their bet
Fp Staff • 18 days agoInvestors are reassessing the AI boom as tech stocks waver and Nvidia’s stock slips. Experts debate if AI mirrors the dot-com bubble, weighing massive investments against uncertain returns and real business impact.
Is AI a bigger threat for women than men in jobs? UN report says…
Fp Staff • 20 days agoThe UN’s “Gender Snapshot 2025” report warns that women are at greater risk of job losses from artificial intelligence than men, with nearly 28 per cent of women’s jobs potentially affected globally compared with 21 per cent of men’s. The report calls for urgent action to bridge the gender digital divide.
Satya Nadella says he’s ‘haunted' by AI threat after staff asks why Microsoft feels ‘colder, more rigid’
Fp Staff • 22 days agoHe used Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) as a cautionary example of a once-dominant tech company that vanished due to its inability to embrace new technologies, such as the Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) architecture