AI Business · Page 23
funding, startups, jobs, and how people and companies are actually making money with AI
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. What's driving the shift, and what does it mean 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, separates a useful digital worker from an expensive autocomplete.
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 admitted it will spend up to $205 billion this year, more than its previous top-end forecast. 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.