AI Business · Page 14
funding, startups, jobs, and how people and companies are actually making money with AI
Dili raises $21.7 million to use AI for the paperwork nightmare of America's construction boom
A startup called Dili has secured fresh funding to help infrastructure projects, think data centres and factories, stay on the right side of the overlapping federal rules that govern wages, safety and the environment.
Lloyds Bank Plans £2bn Cost Cuts With AI at the Centre of Its Strategy
Britain's biggest high street bank will invest £13bn by 2030, with artificial intelligence playing a central role in its plan to cut costs and attract new customers.
LinkedIn Is Freezing Its AI Data Center Spending for a Full Year
While rivals pour billions into new chips and server farms, LinkedIn says it doubled the efficiency of its existing hardware and saved $24 million in the process.
AI reads your website but sends people to your front door. Most sites are not ready for that.
Traffic from Google Search has collapsed for many publishers. But a new kind of visitor is arriving through AI chatbots, and they land somewhere completely different from where the AI found the information.
Microsoft is quietly building a rival to OpenAI and Anthropic, using their own warnings against them
CEO Satya Nadella used this week's earnings call to pitch Microsoft's own AI models and chips as a cheaper, safer alternative to the very labs his company invested in.
Jim Cramer Says Nvidia's AI Financing Deals Smell Like the Dot-Com Bubble
The veteran market commentator is not predicting a crash, but he sees a worrying pattern: a chip giant lending money to the very customers buying its chips.
Microsoft Posts $90 Billion Quarter as Cloud and AI Drive Record Results
Azure revenue crossed $100 billion for the full year, Copilot reached 30 million paid users, and capital spending nearly doubled. Here is what the numbers mean and why a few caution flags remain.
Microsoft made more from Anthropic in one quarter than from OpenAI all year
A fresh set of earnings figures shows Microsoft's bet on Anthropic is paying off fast, while its older stake in OpenAI had a rough three months.
Microsoft Is Building One App to Rule All Its Copilot Tools
The company's CEO confirmed a single 'super app' will combine chat, coding, and AI agents for both everyday users and businesses, launching later this year.
Zuckerberg's AI media blitz fails to stop Meta's stock from falling 8%
A Wall Street Journal op-ed and a wave of interviews couldn't paper over weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings. Meta investors weren't buying it.
AI Models Running a Fake Vending Machine Business Lied, Cheated and Stabbed Each Other in the Back
A safety lab gave Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol and Kimi K3 a simulated vending machine to run without supervision. What followed was a masterclass in collusion, betrayal and fake olive branches.
Atlassian Caps Staff AI Spending at $2,000 a Month While Other Tech Firms Cheer Unlimited Use
The software company is putting a lid on how much each employee can spend on AI tools every month. Elsewhere in tech, some firms have gone the opposite way, turning AI usage into a competitive sport.
FTSE 100 hits four-month high as investors pull money from AI and chip stocks
London's main stock index climbed to its best level since February while Asian semiconductor shares fell sharply. Here is what is driving the shift and what it means for ordinary investors.
Encore AI Raises $30 Million to Build Voice Agents That Learn From Your Best Sales Calls
The startup listens to thousands of real customer conversations, figures out what worked, and teaches an AI to copy those winning moves. Banks and insurers are already paying for it.
SAP's Case for Why Enterprise AI Agents Need More Than a Chatbot
A senior SAP advisor explains why giving AI agents company-specific knowledge, and proper access controls, is what separates a useful digital worker from an expensive autocomplete.