AI Business · Page 29
funding, startups, jobs, and how people and companies are actually making money with AI
Whatnot Buys AI Startup Shaped to Make Live Shopping Feel Personal
The livestream shopping app is betting that smarter recommendation technology will help viewers find what they want faster, as it pushes into new product categories.
OpenAI's First Hardware Product Is a $230 Button Pad for Its AI Coding Tool
The Codex Micro puts physical controls on your desk to manage AI-driven coding tasks. It isn't the secret Jony Ive device everyone has been waiting for.
OpenAI's first piece of hardware is a light-up mini-keyboard for its AI coding agent
The $230 Codex Micro uses colour-coded keys to show you, at a glance, whether your AI coding tasks are running, waiting, or broken.
Apple Intelligence Gets the Green Light in China, Powered by Alibaba's AI
Chinese regulators have approved Apple's AI features for the country, with local tech giant Alibaba supplying the underlying models. For Apple, it's a meaningful win in one of its biggest markets.
Rime raises $24 million to make AI phone calls feel less like talking to a robot
The San Francisco startup trains its voice models on real recorded conversations, not scraped internet audio. Its bet: better data means enterprise customers stop hanging up.
Meet Ode: The $1.5 Billion Company Anthropic Built to Put Its AI to Work Inside Your Business
Anthropic and a group of private equity firms have launched Ode, a new company that sends specialist engineers directly into businesses to implement AI. It is a bet that knowing how to deploy AI is now worth as much as building it.
Vint Cerf just joined a startup trying to give AI agents a verifiable ID on the internet
One of the people who built the internet thinks AI agents need passports. He's now helping design them.
Indian AI startup Emergent hits $1.5 billion valuation after $130 million raise
The Bengaluru-based company lets non-technical business owners build software by typing plain instructions. It now has 200,000 paying customers and $120 million in annual revenue.
This AI Router Cuts Costs by 2.6x by Learning From Its Own Mistakes
A new open-source system called ACRouter watches which AI model succeeds or fails on each task, remembers what it learned, and routes the next job smarter. In tests, it matched the performance of premium-only setups at less than half the price.
AI Startups Swallowed 80% of All Global Venture Capital in Early 2026
Investors put roughly $242 billion into artificial intelligence companies in just three months. That figure, from data tracker Crunchbase, has no historical parallel. Here is what it means if you work for a living.
The AI race is no longer just about who has the biggest model
Companies are quietly moving away from the most powerful AI and toward cheaper, smarter systems that pick the right tool for each job. Here is what that means for you.
Greg Brockman takes charge at OpenAI as Fidji Simo steps down due to illness
OpenAI's co-founder and president absorbs the company's product and commercial operations, just as OpenAI files quietly for a future stock-market debut.
AI chip executives say demand is 'almost unlimited' even as companies get pickier about costs
Senior figures from chip startups, data centre builders and venture capital say AI infrastructure demand is outrunning supply. But enterprises are now asking hard questions about what they actually get back for the money spent.
IBM shares fall 25% after profit warning as tech spending slows
The US technology giant reported just 1% revenue growth for the second quarter, blaming customers who are pulling back on spending. It was the company's worst single-day stock drop in decades.
Meta's Adam Mosseri thinks companies will soon put spending caps on AI tools, engineer by engineer
The head of Instagram says AI token budgets could become a standard line item on the corporate balance sheet, sitting right next to payroll.