Once leaders learn how other companies are using AI to solve problems and seize opportunities, they will be better able to see its practical applications for their own.

Businesses will maintain an edge in the digital market if they see AI and automation as opportunities for improvement rather than dangers to established practices.

Artificial intelligence has long ceased to be the subject of science fiction films. Businesses increasingly use AI transformation services to work faster and more efficiently. For example, some companies implement tools that improve the quality and speed of customer service.

The cause of investors’ panic was DeepSeek, an obscure Chinese hedge fund turned AI startup that has blown analysts away with its latest large language model, R1, released on January 20th. Consumers have flocked to DeepSeek’s chatbot,

AI-powered Google competitors are trying to figure out how to grab search revenue without losing users who are wary of advertising.

As mentioned, Qualcomm's chipsets have long led the chipset market. As the 5G upgrade cycle has cooled, the company has pivoted to designing AI-enabled chips. To that end, it has developed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip for this purpose, and it should improve on its capabilities with the upcoming release of a Gen 4 chip.

One of the more surprising stock stories during the first half of the 2020s may be Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB). The site leveraged artificial intelligence (AI), bringing landlords and tenants together to market vacation properties that may have otherwise never made it to the market.

Adjusted per-share earnings came ahead of Wall Street estimates.

Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday that its profit for the October-December quarter grew 10% from the same time last year as it works to capitalize on the huge amounts of money it has spent to advance its artificial intelligence technology.

France's privacy watchdog said on Thursday it will question DeepSeek to gain a better idea of how the Chinese startup's AI system works and any possible privacy risks for users.

Max's release points to the pressure DeepSeek's meteoric rise in the past three weeks has placed on overseas rivals and domestic competition.

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) benefited enormously from the increased investment in chips for artificial intelligence (AI), but news out of China is causing investors to wonder if the stock's high valuation is worth it ahead of potential risks to the massive investment big tech companies have put into data center infrastructure.