AI Business · Page 22
funding, startups, jobs, and how people and companies are actually making money with AI
Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft: Why AI's Next Problem Is Waste, Not Power
The AI industry spent years racing to build smarter models and buy more chips. A quieter problem is now taking shape: expensive hardware sitting in data centres is often doing very little, and nobody has been asked to fix that.
Nscale pays $1.65 billion to buy AI software startup Anyscale
A British AI cloud company is snapping up the team behind a popular tool for running big AI workloads, in a bet that owning the whole stack, from servers to software, is where the money is.
There Are Only 2,000 Engineers in America Who Can Actually Make AI Pay Off
A new study says demand for the specialists who plug AI into real business workflows is about to surge by 2,100 percent. The problem: there aren't nearly enough of them.
MCP Gets Its Biggest Update Yet, and the Goal Is Letting AI Work at Company Scale
A key change to the open standard that helps AI tools talk to outside software removes a bottleneck that made large deployments tricky. Here is what changed and why it matters.
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 where the caution flags are.
Microsoft made more from Anthropic in one quarter than from OpenAI all year
Fresh earnings figures show 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
CEO Satya Nadella confirmed a single 'super app' will combine chat, coding, and AI agents for everyday users and businesses alike, launching this quarter.
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 collusion, betrayal and fake olive branches.