Katherine Li

Articles by Katherine Li

The AI boss at a San Francisco store just fired its first human - Business Insider

Business August 16, 2026

The AI agent running a San Francisco store has made its first firing decision. Andon Labs said Thursday that Luna, the AI manager of Andon Market, an experimental retail store run entirely by AI, deοΏ½...

Hugging Face CEO says China is winning the AI race while the US is building 'in silos' - Business Insider

Business August 5, 2026

The Hugging Face CEO is making a case for open-weight AI models with a warning for the US. ClΓ©ment Delangue said on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" show on Monday that China is winning the AI race bec...

AI startups are moving into smaller neighborhoods and shifting San Francisco's economic center - Business Insider

Business April 19, 2026

Despite the pandemic, an exodus of tech companies, and a feared "doom loop," a one-two punch ofΒ return-to-office mandatesΒ and the explosion ofΒ AI startupsΒ has shifted San Francisco's tech center i...

5 ground-breaking (and strange) products you could soon buy from the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - Business Insider

Technology January 11, 2026

The Tamagotchi of the AI era is here. A new AI pet from Chinese startup Takway AI, called Sweekar, debuted in the US at CES. Unlike most AI companions that exist entirely virtually, this creature haοΏ½...

OpenAI's ChatGPT 5.1 versus Google's Gemini 3: Here's how the models stack up in the AI race - Business Insider

Business December 4, 2025

Google is mounting a striking comeback in the AI race. After ChatGPT blindsided the company in 2022 and turned OpenAI into the face of generative AI, Google spent three years working to regain its fοΏ½...