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funding, startups, jobs, and how people and companies are actually making money with AI
What has to go right for the AI spending gamble to pay off
A handful of tech giants are spending at a scale that dwarfs any industry investment in history. A Wharton finance professor ran the arithmetic and the answer is both clear and sobering.
Paying for a frontier AI model now buys you about four months of advantage
A new Mozilla report puts hard numbers on the gap between the priciest closed AI and the best free-to-download models. For most everyday work, the gap is shrinking fast.
Salesforce and Nvidia built their own reasoning AI so enterprises can stop paying OpenAI and Anthropic
A new model called Koa handles sales and customer-support tasks inside Salesforce's platform, costs less to run than frontier rivals, and never touches real customer data.
Profound Raises $180 Million So Your Brand Shows Up When Someone Asks an AI
The two-year-old startup hit a $1.8 billion valuation after tripling revenue in six months. Its pitch: if shoppers are asking AI instead of Google, you need to be in the answer.
US data centres could guzzle more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035
A new BloombergNEF report nearly doubles its own nine-month-old forecast, finding AI's hunger for power could add the equivalent of 12% of total US greenhouse gas emissions every day.
The AI graveyard: what actually killed these products and startups
From a $230 million wearable to OpenAI's own stumbles, here is what the wreckage of the past two years teaches us about where AI money goes wrong.
AI May Be Squeezing Workers' Pay Before It Cuts Their Jobs
New research finds wages fell faster in jobs most exposed to AI, but economists warn the data is thin and the story is more complicated than the headline suggests.
Anthropic signs its first Australian data centre deal in western Queensland
The company behind the Claude AI assistant will lease space in a $31 billion facility, with Queensland's premier calling it a jobs win for the state.
SK Hynix and Intel Are Talking About Making Memory Chips in the US
The South Korean chip giant is exploring a deal to manufacture RAM inside American borders for the first time, possibly by leasing space inside Intel's Ohio factory.
Your AI Data Center Has a Heat Problem. Here Is What the Industry Is Doing About It.
Modern AI chips now burn more than 1,000 watts each. Air conditioning can't keep up. A new white paper explains why liquid cooling is becoming the only practical answer.
Four months old, $85 million raised. Can Hang Ten Systems really build enterprise software with two engineers instead of thirty?
Hang Ten Systems just closed a $53 million follow-on seed round, five weeks after its first. The pitch: AI can shrink a 30-person software project down to a team of two or four.
Apple Wants Back in the Server Room, and Nvidia Might Help It Get There
After 15 years out of the server market, Apple could return with powerful chips and an unlikely partner, and the Mac Mini shortage is partly why.
Apple Built an AI That Reads Your Database Code and Writes the Missing Documentation
Enterprise databases are drowning in unlabelled columns. Glyph, a new AI system from Apple ML Research, reads the code that creates each column and writes the missing documentation itself.
Z.ai shares drop 10% as the company chases another $5 billion
The Beijing company has now sought roughly $9 billion in fresh capital over two months, spending it on next-generation AI models and the chips to run them.
Snap Spent a Week Trying to Justify Its $2,200 Smart Glasses. Here Is What It Announced.
New AI features, enterprise deals and a $10-a-month data plan are Snap's answer to the backlash over Specs. Whether they add up to a convincing argument is another question.