Finance
Only 6% of marketers say AI is paying off in a big way. Here’s what the winners are doing.
Marketers have gone all in on AI. Now comes the awkward question: Is it actually paying off yet? The answer is largely “no,” according to new research from the management consulting firm Bain, shared exclusively with CMO Insider. The starkest finding from the study, which surveyed 1,397 senior…
David Ellison won Warner. Next up: taking on Netflix and YouTube.
It took Larry and David Ellison two years to assemble a media behemoth. Now that they’ve bought Paramount, and are about to add Warner Bros. Discovery, the hard part starts: First, they have to figure out how to merge the two companies — and then they have to figure out how to compete with Netflix
What data center backlash? My night at a raucous ‘pro-data center’ party.
Data centers are drawing protests and city hall spats across the country. You wouldn’t have known it Saturday night in downtown Washington, DC. When I arrived at Data after Dark, a “pro-data center” party 10 minutes before it was scheduled to start, there were already a few dozen attendees waiting…
OpenAI named its new agent system Dots. It’s already causing confusion.
OpenAI’s new AI agents are meant to help people get work done. Instead, their first job may be to explain that they’re not a Chinese AI lab, a small fashion retailer, or Elon Musk’s Grok. At its DevDay event on Tuesday, OpenAI unveiled Dots, a fleet of always-on AI assistants that can keep working…
OpenAI just launched its answer to Meta: ‘always-on’ AI agents called Dots
OpenAI is throwing its hat in tech’s shiniest new ring. On Tuesday, the company unveiled a new product called Dots, its answer to the rise of “always-on” personal agents like Instinct and Meta’s Muse. OpenAI’s version will run on its frontier model GPT-6 Astra. “I’m really surprised at what a…
Sam Altman outlined OpenAI’s 3-part plan for dominance
Sam Altman laid out OpenAI’s three-step vision for business dominance. The CEO revealed a slew of updates to ChatGPT and related company products at its developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. He also outlined a three-part plan: provide the best AI models, make them the easiest for…
Judge rules Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax rollout needs a do-over
New York City’s pied-à-terre tax on luxury second homes has hit a roadblock over the publication of a list of hundreds of thousands of residences in the city. A Staten Island judge ruled Tuesday that the previously published list of New York City residences should be removed. Instead, the…
AI is driving a data-center power boom. Here are some of the biggest US projects being built.
Some Americans have new next-door neighbors: data centers. The US has been building these computing facilities for decades, but development has ramped up dramatically in recent years as AI increasingly drives demand for computing power. Business Insider compiled a list of some of these enormous US…
Amazon vans may be New York City’s latest target in a crackdown on delivery services
Amazon is making New York City traffic more dangerous, according to new data compiled by an advocacy group. Vehicles that deliver Amazon packages across the city received over 14,000 citations for violations between July 2020 and June 2025, including blocking emergency vehicles, obstructing fire…
A US military task force just showed it’s ready to bet billions of dollars on answers to the drone problem
The US task force leading the military’s response to the drone threat is ready to spend billions of dollars on contracts for counter-drone technologies, betting that a mixed arsenal will be needed to contend with one of the fast-growing battlefield problems. Officials said the investment would help…