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funding, startups, jobs, and how people and companies are actually making money with AI
Meta will slash your AI bill by 95% if you let it study how you use the model
The company's new Muse Spark model offers a steep discount in exchange for access to your usage data. A straightforward trade, but worth understanding before you opt in.
John Lewis Is Building a YouTube Chat Show to Get Its Products Into AI Search Results
The British department store is betting that video content will help chatbots recommend its products. Here is what that strategy looks like, and why more retailers will follow.
NeoMME Is a Tiny AI Model That Reads Documents Twice as Fast as Its Rivals
A new open-source model scans document pages as images, skips the usual heavy architecture, and still matches much larger systems on accuracy. Here is what that means if you work with PDFs.
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion
The world's biggest AI chip company just bought the platform where millions of developers share AI models for free. Here's what that means for open-source AI.
Meta Drops AI Usage Quotas for Staff But Rolls Out a Powerful New AI Agent
Workers no longer get graded on how much they use AI tools. But a new agent called Hatch, which can browse the web and run apps on their behalf, is quietly racking up even more computing resource than the chatbots it replaces.
OpenClaw 2.0 turns a solo AI coding assistant into a team sport
The open-source AI agent harness just got a major overhaul aimed squarely at companies, adding shared sessions, role-based controls, and a chat-style interface that anyone in an office can use.
How a UK Construction Firm Got 11,000 Employees to Actually Use AI
Kier Group skipped the webinars and ran peer group prompt-a-thons instead. The result: 40 percent of staff now use Microsoft Copilot daily, and one dyslexic site manager says it changed his working life.
Reliance Jio opens its cloud PC service to all Indian internet users
JioPC lets people run a virtual computer through any internet connection, no new hardware required. At roughly $11 for two months, it targets the millions of Indians whose ageing machines can't run modern AI software.
AI startup Wonderful hits $5 billion valuation after raising $550 million in six months
The Israeli-Dutch company more than doubled its value since its last funding round. Its secret weapon: teams of engineers who move into clients' offices and wire up AI tools by hand.
AI Is Doing the Grunt Work That Used to Turn Beginners Into Experts
When AI handles the entry-level jobs, junior workers get less practice at the skills that take years to build. Aviation and nuclear engineering figured out this problem decades ago. Here is what they learned.
Before AI Can Help, the Data Has to Work: Lessons from a 140,000-Person Manufacturer
Jabil operates more than 100 factories across 30 countries. Getting AI to do anything useful there first meant fixing something far less glamorous: making data flow the same way everywhere.
Adobe buys Indian AI startup Rilo to beef up its marketing automation tools
The six-person team behind Rilo built software that automates marketing tasks like competitor research and sales call analysis. Now they're joining Adobe, and Rilo itself is shutting down.
IBM and Confluent Bring AI Forecasting Directly Into Live Data Streams
A new partnership lets businesses run AI predictions on data as it arrives, without a data science team or months of setup.
Google Is Offering Hollywood Hundreds of Millions to Train Its AI on Movies and TV Shows
The tech giant wants studio libraries. The studios want the money. But the workers and audiences caught in the middle may pay the real price.
AfterQuery hits a $3.2 billion valuation in five months, breaking Y Combinator's speed record
The AI training-data startup went from a $300 million Series A to unicorn status faster than any company in Y Combinator's history. Its founders are 22 and 23 years old.