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The 22-year-old AI call centre company that thinks chatbots are overrated just raised $67 million
Athens-based Omilia has been automating customer phone calls since 2002. Its CEO says rivals are making a costly mistake by using heavy AI for every task, no matter how simple.

Nobody Has Figured Out How to Price AI Yet. That Is a Problem for Everyone
Companies are paying for AI by the token, a tiny unit of text the software processes, but nobody, not startups, not Microsoft, not the firms selling AI services, can predict how many tokens a task will burn. Budgets are blowing up, and the bill lands before anyone notices.

Asana built AI agents that share memory across your whole company, with a wall around the secrets
The project-management company's new system lets AI teammates learn from every task they touch, but blocks them from passing confidential information to people who shouldn't see it.

Big Tech's AI bets are making corporate profits look much bigger than they are
Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet booked billions in paper gains from their stakes in Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX. Strip those out and earnings growth looks a lot more ordinary.

Meta launches Muse Code, an AI coding agent built for giant software projects
Meta's new terminal tool can plan, write and test code across huge codebases, and it spins up multiple AI sub-agents at once to get big jobs done faster.

Klaviyo buys AI startup Agency and gets a new product chief in the same deal
The e-commerce marketing platform is acquiring a three-year-old AI startup founded by a serial entrepreneur who once hired Klaviyo's own CEO, and is now joining to lead its AI push.

AI Music Tool Treblo Says Its Own Detector Found Its Fingerprints All Over Fenix Flexin's Hit 'Rubberz'
The company built a classifier to spot songs made with its technology. The first song it flagged with high confidence may be on the Billboard Hot 100.

SpaceX Is Really a Satellite Firm That Rents Out Computer Power. The Rockets Are Almost a Side Note.
The company's first public earnings report shows Starlink internet and data centre leasing dwarfing actual space business, and Elon Musk's grand orbital plans look a lot like wishful thinking.

AI search is sending more shoppers to Shopify stores, not fewer
While publishers watch AI summaries drain their traffic, Shopify says AI-driven visits and orders to its merchants tripled year-over-year in Q2 2025.

Anthropic Is Building Its Own AI Chips
The company behind the Claude chatbot is hiring chip designers to make its AI faster and cheaper to run, following a path already taken by OpenAI, Google and Meta.

SpaceX Reports Record Revenue but Shocks Investors With $16 Billion AI Spending Bill
The rocket company beat earnings expectations by a wide margin, then watched its share price drop 10 percent after revealing it spent nearly $16 billion on AI infrastructure in a single quarter.

Your Company Bought the AI. Now Comes the Harder Part.
NTT DATA AIVista's CEO says most enterprise AI projects fail not because the model is bad, but because no one does the unglamorous work of wrapping it in real workflows, real data, and real guardrails.

SpaceX Has Spent $329 Million on Tesla Batteries This Year. Here's Why.
The rocket company is buying industrial-scale battery storage at a pace that shows just how tightly Elon Musk's businesses are wired together, and what that means for the AI data centers powering it all.

Wall Street hits record highs as AI company profits surge and oil prices drop
The S&P 500 climbed to its best-ever close on Tuesday, driven by strong earnings from tech and AI firms and cheaper oil. Here is what it means for ordinary investors.

AMD's AI chip sales just doubled in a year. Its gaming business? Not so much.
AMD made $6.7 billion from data centre chips in a single quarter, driven almost entirely by AI demand. Gaming revenue fell 31 percent.