AI Business · Page 30
funding, startups, jobs, and how people and companies are actually making money with AI
Reflection AI Signs $1 Billion Compute Deal With Nebius
The open-model startup, valued at $8 billion, is stacking up GPU access at speed as demand for AI that nobody can switch off overnight keeps growing.
Open-source AI models from China now dominate developer downloads. Does the frontier still matter?
Chinese open-weight models took 41% of Hugging Face downloads this spring. Developers are building with cheaper, customisable alternatives, and some big names think that shift is permanent.
Why Silicon Valley's 'Already Made It' crowd is taking junior titles at AI labs
From the co-founder of Monzo to the former CTO of Workday, experienced tech veterans are trading power and prestige for 'member of technical staff' roles at Anthropic and its rivals.
AI agents are being trusted with more decisions than companies can actually verify
A new survey finds half of enterprises have already shipped an AI agent that passed internal tests and then broke something for a real customer. Only 5% fully trust the testing that is supposed to catch those failures.
PixVerse Raises $439 Million and Hits $2 Billion Valuation in AI Video Push
The Singapore startup lets users generate 4K video from a single image. Alibaba is already a customer, and 150 million people have signed up.
57% of Enterprises Have Been Burned by a Confident AI Answer That Was Wrong. Here Is Why It Keeps Happening.
A new survey puts numbers on a problem IT teams already know: AI agents deliver wrong answers with total certainty, and the root cause isn't the model. It's the missing layer that tells the model what your business data actually means.
DeepSeek Slashed Prices 75%. AI Costs Are Still Rising.
Cheaper AI models were supposed to make AI businesses more profitable. A hidden problem called token amplification is doing the opposite.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that reads your Slack, manages your calendar, and builds websites on your phone
The new tool, powered by GPT-5.6, can spend hours on a task without you lifting a finger. Here is what it does, who gets it, and what it costs to access.
Nous Research Is Raising $75 Million at a $1.5 Billion Valuation. Here Is What Its Hermes Agent Actually Does.
The startup behind the open-source Hermes AI agent is closing a new funding round just three months after its last one. If you have never heard of Hermes, you are about to.
Anthropic Brings Local Rupee Pricing to Claude in India
India is Claude's second-biggest market worldwide. Now users there can finally pay in their own currency, though one key payment method is still missing.
AI Is Getting Expensive, and the Executives Paying for It Are Starting to Notice
A major survey finds nearly a third of senior business leaders cannot track what AI is costing them. A new forecast says AI coding tools could soon cost more per developer than the developer's salary.
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Hardware Secret Theft
Apple accuses OpenAI's hardware chief of coaching recruits to smuggle out unreleased parts, prototypes and confidential files before jumping ship.
The Software Engineer Who Codes on His Commute to Stay Sharp in the Age of AI
AI tools are writing more code at more companies. Some engineers are quietly going back to basics to make sure they still can.
Sunrun wants to turn your living room into a tiny AI data centre
The solar company is paying homeowners to host small computing units that sell AI processing power to big tech firms. Here is what that actually means for you.
Apple's Abandoned Self-Driving Car Quietly Built the AI Chip Inside Every iPhone
A cancelled car project turns out to be the origin story of Apple's most important piece of AI hardware.