AI Business · Page 15
funding, startups, jobs, and how people and companies are actually making money with AI
Perplexity Lets You Build a Panel of AI Models to Debate Your Hardest Questions
The search company's Model Council feature now lets paying users pick up to eight AI models, have them tackle a question independently, then read a synthesis of where they agree and where they split.
Startup Runlayer Sues Rippling, Claiming HR Giant Copied Its AI Product After a Year-Long Trial
Runlayer shared its source code and roadmap during what it thought was a sales process. Rippling then built its own version. Now there is a lawsuit.
Google studied 15 million real AI interactions and found workers aren't automating themselves out of a job
A new Google Research paper looked at how people actually use Gemini at work. The headline finding: AI helps with pieces of tasks, but end-to-end job replacement is rare.
AI's Money Problem: Google's Ballooning Costs Spook Investors Across the Whole Industry
Google just admitted it will spend up to $205 billion this year, more than it previously said it would spend at the high end. That miscalculation is rattling investors, and the pressure is spreading to every major AI company.
Apple hits $5 trillion as investors ditch AI stocks
The iPhone maker briefly topped a $5 trillion market value on Tuesday, becoming only the second company in history to hit that mark, as money poured out of AI and chip stocks into perceived safer bets.
Fish Audio raises $50 million to let anyone clone a voice, but consent questions linger
The Palo Alto startup has 8 million users and $21 million in annual revenue. Its new funding will push into enterprise contracts and more advanced models. A recent controversy over unauthorised voice uploads is not fully resolved.
AI startup Recursive Superintelligence strikes $410 million compute deal with Amazon
A company built around AI that improves itself has committed most of its funding to Amazon Web Services, betting that raw computing power is the real bottleneck.
Perplexity Brings Its AI Computer Agent to Windows
The tool can open files, update spreadsheets, and send emails on your behalf, but it costs $200 a month and is aimed squarely at business users.
AI Companies Are About to Make Hundreds of People Very Rich. Charities Are Lining Up
With OpenAI and Anthropic heading toward stock-market listings, nonprofits from AI-safety labs to poverty-relief groups are quietly preparing to catch a wave of donations that could add billions to US giving every year.
Samsung's Chip Engineers Are Quietly Applying to the Rival Paying Them $340,000 More
SK Hynix's record AI-chip bonuses have set off a talent exodus at Samsung. The fallout could reshape who wins the race to build the memory chips inside every major AI system.
AI Chip Stocks Tumble as Investors Worry About the Cost of the AI Boom
Samsung and SK Hynix each lost more than 10% of their value in a single day, dragging South Korea's stock market to a three-month low, as doubts grow about how AI companies will pay for their massive data centre build-outs.
Cursor launches a $7-a-month plan for India as it eyes the world's second-largest developer market
The AI coding tool is betting that lower prices will turn India's millions of software developers into paying subscribers, ahead of its expected takeover by SpaceX.
Nvidia and SK Hynix sign a $500 billion deal to lock down AI memory supply
The agreement covers specialised memory chips that every powerful AI processor needs, and it comes with plans for massive new data centres in South Korea.
Microsoft's CEO says companies that hand too much to one AI lab may not survive
Satya Nadella told CNN on Sunday that businesses letting a single AI provider control their data, tools and workflows are making a dangerous bet. His solution: keep your own data, run your own models. Critics note Microsoft sells exactly that alternative.
Verizon Signs a $1 Billion Deal With Google and Is Turning Old Phone Offices Into Mini Data Centres
The phone company wants a slice of the AI spending boom, and it's starting with dark fibre cables and gutted copper wires.