Katie Notopoulos

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Brad Davis |Katie Notopoulos |Henry Blodget

I wanted to go to the Solana Accelerate conference as soon as I saw the trailer for the crypto confab. The video ad showed "America" at a therapist's office, where the country described its urge to innovate and was met with resistance from a "woke" therapist, who encouraged America to "channel this energy into something more productive, like coming up with a new gender."The ad was so over the top in its culture war stance that the Solana organization pulled the video a few hours later.

1 week ago | businessinsider.jp | Katie Notopoulos

テック業界を長く取材してきた記者として、また一人のガジェットマニアとして、Appleのジョニー・アイブ元最高デザイン責任者（CDO）とOpenAIのサム・アルトマン最高経営責任者（CEO）がAI向けデバイスの開発に取り組んでいると聞いて興奮を隠せない。期待もしている。 ※アルトマン氏率いるOpenAIは5月21日、アイブ氏創業のAI端末開発企業io Products（アイオープロダクツ）を65億ドルで買収すると発表。2024年中に23％の株式を取得済みで、残りを株式交換方式で取得する。 でも、二人に一つだけ聞いてほしいことがある。お願いだから、音声操作デバイスだけはやめてもらいたい。 アイブ氏とアルトマン氏は今後の協業に関して、新たなデバイスの開発を示唆した。買収発表と同時に公開された対談動画でも若干の言及があるが、現時点で分かっていることはウォール・ストリート・ジャーナル記事（5月21日付）に網羅されている。 同記事によれば、買収発表直後の（OpenAIの）社内ミーティングでは、両氏から開発中のデバイスに関する断片的な情報共有があったという。...

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Katie Notopoulos |Henry Blodget

I'm as curious and excited as any gadget-lover to see what newfangled AI thingamabob will come from OpenAI's $6.5 billion purchase of ex-Apple designer Jony Ive's io company. But I have one request: please, for the love of God, do not make it a voice-controlled device. Here's what we know about the possible device that Ive and Sam Altman are teasing in a video about their new collaboration.

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Katie Notopoulos |Henry Blodget

Imagine you're the CEO of a medium-to-large consumer tech company. You announce that you're going all in on AI — you are launching new AI features in your products, or maybe you're telling your employees they need to start using AI at their jobs more. Your investors love it. Your fellow CEOs applaud you. Thought leaders in Silicon Valley hail you. Wall Street loves it; your share price spikes. But your customers? They haaaaaaaaate it. You get absolutely destroyed on social media.

3 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Brad Davis |Katie Notopoulos |Henry Blodget

Airbnb is trying to expand beyond just vacation rentals — and it's enlisted some celebrities like Megan Thee Stallion and Patrick Mahomes to get some buzz going for its new offerings. I have some questions. It seems like these big names are only here to tout the new "Experiences" — things like throwing the pigskin with Mahomes or hanging out with Megan for the day. These all cost nothing, but go to only a handful of contest winners.