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funding, startups, jobs, and how people and companies are actually making money with AI
Google tests a Buy button inside Gemini for Flipkart shoppers in India
A small trial lets Indian users purchase electronics directly through Google's AI without leaving the chat. A broader rollout is planned for October, timed to India's festive shopping season.
AI's Debt Binge Gets More Expensive as Bond Yields Hit Near 20-Year Highs
A spike in US Treasury yields is raising the cost of the trillions of dollars in borrowing that powers the AI infrastructure build. Smaller players are already feeling the squeeze.
Nvidia's Kumo Tabular Reads a Spreadsheet Cold and Beats Every Tuned Model Doing It
A new open AI model from Nvidia makes predictions on business data tables without any training on your data, no setup, and no specialist required, and it just topped every major leaderboard.
When Should a Company Stop Renting AI and Start Owning It?
Buying AI by the request works fine for experiments. Once it becomes a daily business operation, the maths can flip completely.
Mistral Opens a Munich Hub to Bring Physics AI to German Heavy Industry
The French AI company is setting up a research base in Bavaria to work on simulations for BMW and Siemens Energy, and it wants to keep all the data in Europe.
H Company's Holo4 Handles Every Interface a Computer Offers, in One Model
Holo4 can click menus, write code, and call APIs within a single task. For businesses weighing agent costs, that breadth at a smaller scale is the real story.
Lightspeed Is Putting Its Entire New India Fund Into AI
The Silicon Valley venture firm has locked in commitments for 80% of its new $250 million India fund, which is built entirely around artificial intelligence for the first time in its history in the region.
SoftBank borrowed $11.1 billion to close its $30 billion OpenAI bet
The Japanese tech investor sold bonds in two currencies to fund the final payment on a deal that will make it OpenAI's largest outside backer, with a 13% stake.
AI Is Doing the Grunt Work. Now Companies Can't Find Anyone Who Knows How It's Done.
From ad agencies to banks, employers are hiring fewer entry-level staff as AI handles research, drafting and admin. The worry is that a generation of workers may gain AI-enabled speed without ever building the judgement underneath it.
Alibaba Built Its Own AI Chip and Wants 20 Gigawatts of Data Centres by 2032
At its annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, Alibaba announced the Zhenwu V900 chip, a 20-gigawatt data centre target, and confirmed its next frontier model is already in training.
Agents Just Ate Our Homepage: 24 Stories in Seven Days
AI2Day's own tag counter shows a jump from 5 to 24 agent stories week on week. Here's what that shape tells us, and what it doesn't.
Infrastructure week: why our own story count on power, chips and data centres just tripled
We ran 13 AI infrastructure pieces in the seven days to 20 September, up from 4 the week before. Here is what our own coverage looks like when the picture zooms out from models to megawatts.
Last Year's AI Is Good Enough. Dreamforce 2026 Proved It.
Fifty thousand business professionals gathered in San Francisco this week to talk AI. The loudest message from the floor: the models companies already have are more than they can handle.
Anthropic and OpenAI Are Quietly Shopping for Small Data Centers in Europe and the US
Both labs are hunting for 20-to-30 megawatt sites in the UK, the Nordics, and the US, a sharp turn from the gigawatt-scale megaprojects they announced just months ago.
Google, Nvidia and Anthropic Back a Startup That Wants to Squeeze 100 More Gigawatts From the Power Grid
A new coalition says smarter software can let data centers pause and shift their electricity use, unlocking grid space that new power plants alone cannot provide fast enough.