AI Business · Page 8
funding, startups, jobs, and how people and companies are actually making money with AI
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.
Sequoia's Spin-Out Empirik Raises $21M to Catch Server Outages Before They Happen
Two IT veterans who spent years firefighting tech failures at Rubrik and VMware built an AI tool that spots trouble before the system crashes. Now it's a real company with serious backing.
Your Gaming PC Could Earn Money Running AI Jobs While You Sleep
A handful of start-ups now pay ordinary people to share spare computing power from home computers, gaming rigs, and basement servers. Here is how it works and what to watch for.
Anthropic Revises Claude Code Usage Limits, Reducing Allowance for Developers
A 25% permanent increase sounds generous until you do the maths: against what paying developers have today, it's a 17% cut.
Nvidia ate our homepage this week, and we need to talk about why
Twenty stories in seven days, up from seven. Here is what that spike in our own coverage does and does not tell us.
AI Investments Show Growth Isn't a Zero-Sum Game
Earnings reports from Nvidia, Microsoft and Alphabet show the AI buildout is handing wins to multiple companies at once.
Salesforce's blowout quarter has a clear message: data owns the AI economy, not the models
While investors spent a year fearing that AI would kill business software, the companies building the most powerful AI models quietly became Salesforce's biggest customers.
OpenAI cuts off Cursor's access to its AI models after SpaceX buys the coding tool
OpenAI says it cannot trust Elon Musk's companies to follow its rules, so it will shut down Cursor's access to its models on 12 November 2026.
The AI cop whisperer: Blue Voice raises $6 million to give officers instant access to the rules they police by
A Harvard Law dropout built an AI tool that answers officers' policy questions in the field. It now serves 225 agencies across 25 states, and its backers say it could reduce both crime and misconduct.
Nvidia Invests $3.5 Billion in MediaTek to Expand AI Chip Collaboration
Nvidia backs MediaTek to keep its infrastructure at the center of custom AI chip development, even as Big Tech builds its own silicon.