YouTube hosted more than 100 ads and tutorials for AI 'nudifier' apps, some reportedly used by high school students. After Forbes reached out, the video streaming giant took them down. Brilliant story by Thomas Brewster

NEW: For years, competitive business information from top U.S. advertisers was widely available to TikTok and ByteDance staff most anywhere, including in China.

Inside TikTok's chaotic ads division and employees' concerns over how it's handled client data:forbes.com/sites/alexandr…

We Forbes have a new weekly AI newsletter, The Prompt ✨

Edited by Rashi Shrivastava, it's free and will be a great place to keep tabs on big AI stories of the week, AI product launches and our whole team's coverage 📝

Check out the 1st edition here 👀
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Saudi Arabia Is Investing Billions In AI. But Some Founders Are Still Waiting To Get Paid. via @forbes forbes.com/sites/iainmart…

New: The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children got 36 million reports of suspected CSAM in 2023.

A small but growing volume of that child sex abuse material was made with generative AI.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Stability are now reporting to NCMEC:forbes.com/sites/alexandr…

A fascinating deep dive into productivity app, Notion, which went viral on TikTok in 2021, and its billionaire CEO Ivan Zhao by Kenrick Cai

OMG Aravind Srinivas & Denis Yarats, I had no idea you guys had to skip lunch and wait for hours near my NYU office for a chance to catch me.
So sorry about that 🫣
Must have been one of those crazy days.
Anyway, I'm glad you waited: kickass demo and even more kickass product 😄…

When I led Perplexity's first round of funding I was massively impressed with velocity to ship, and ability to hire amazing people

Sill true today 🔥💪

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Notion is, even by Silicon Valley standards, idiosyncratic. CEO Ivan Zhao picks out all the furniture at HQ and for years had a no-shoes policy.

My latest magazine profile looks at Ivan Zhao's big AI bet, which earned Notion a spot on #ForbesAI50 :

forbes.com/sites/kenrickc…

New: I spoke to Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen, a longtime Google vet, about what he calls a “reinvention” for his company — going beyond e-signatures and into managing all contracts across a client's business
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The #ForbesAI50 2024, a list of the 50 most promising privately-held AI companies in the world, is live.
Read full list here:
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My colleague Rashi Shrivastava profiled #ForbesAI50 newcomer Perplexity, which is making a play at Google Search.

One x-factor is what CEO Aravind Srinivas calls a 'snowball effect' of investors and users including Jeff Bezos and Jensen Huang:

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For #ForbesAI50 , I profiled Ivan Zhao, CEO of Notion, the $10 billion company that has moved ultra fast to adopt AI advances into its own productivity software.

AI, Zhao hopes, is the key to challenging the office suite duopoly of Microsoft/Google:

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Our sixth annual #ForbesAI50 is live!

We got 1,900+ applications to the list, which features the world's most promising AI startups.

This year's honorees represent a new tech economy of businesses emerging to deploy and develop AI apps.

Our full list:

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