The multinational retail chain where Katie Smith worked in data analytics and finance for six years was so concerned with controlling employees’ online activities that it blocked access to all generative artificial intelligence websites and locked down YouTube. So Smith took matters into her own hands. She used a personal ChatGPT account to help with writing work emails, fine-tuned them using Grammarly Inc.’s English language writing assistant and tapped into the AI features of Canva Inc.’s...

Last month’s news that a Chinese startup called DeepSeek had developed a large language model for a tiny fraction of the cost of those built by U.S. companies triggered a nearly $1 trillion selloff in the stock market and sent investors scurrying for their calculators. Did DeepSeek’s innovations permanently alter the economics of artificial intelligence model training? And if so, what impact would that have on venture capital investors who threw more than $100 billion at AI startups in 2024...

IBM Corp. kicked off the tech sector’s quarterly earnings season with results that indicated that the artificial intelligence dividend has yet to pay off for the big infrastructure players. Third-quarter earnings of $2.30 per share, excluding nonrecurring items, were eight cents better than consensus estimates. Although revenues rose 2% year-over-year on a constant currency basis, to $14.97 billion, they were slightly below the $15.08 billion consensus. The revenue miss sent IBM shares down...

Early this year Dagnachew Birru playfully asked ChatGPT how Mahatma Gandhi used Google LLC’s G Suite to organize resistance against British violence. To his surprise, the generative artificial intelligence bot obliged. Gandhi “created a Gmail account and used it to send emails and organize meetings,” it responded. “He also used Google Docs to share documents and collaborate on projects.” ChatGPT told how Gandhi had created a website to post articles and videos, shared information on social...