Rashi Shrivastava

Students who’ve turned to ChatGPT for help writing their school applications are turning back to people to make that work sound more human—and schools just can’t keep up.

DON'T DIE: Bryan Johnson is a biohacker, tech founder and self-proclaimed “most measured person in human history.”

More than 100 restaurant franchisees including KFC, Taco Bell and Dairy Queen have fitted their stores with AI-based video surveillance that analyze workers’ performance.

Unstructured, which preps sloppy data for LLM training, has raised $40 million at a $230 million valuation.

The company, which is building “empathic” conversational AI, is now valued at $219 million.

Left to right: founding engineers Michael Opara and Lauren Kim; Alan Cowen, founder, CEO and chief scientist; and Janet Ho, COO, develop “emotionally intelligent” AI models.

Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, is backed by tech VIPs like Jeff Bezos, and counts billionaires like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang among its frequent users.

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Plus: Mark Zuckerberg's fake beard and AI-generated e-textbooks With 20 million users, AI presentation maker Tome has pivoted its product to serve enterprise customers including salespeople.

Plus a move toward hyperrealism and Alaska Airlines' new AI tool. The Prompt is a weekly rundown of AI's buzziest startups, biggest breakthroughs, and business deals.