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What small businesses can learn from big companies getting AI wrong (and right)
Large corporations have spent billions figuring out where AI helps and where it flops. Small business owners can skip most of that expensive trial and error.

A mystery Chinese AI model spent a week fooling the internet. Now it wants 45% of your AI budget.
GLM-5.3-Flash launched anonymously, served trillions of tokens for free on Chinese chips, and costs a fraction of US rivals. That combination is forcing companies to rethink what they actually need to pay for.

Jensen Huang says Nvidia's bets on AI companies carry 'low risk' after a record quarter
Nvidia's CEO defended the chipmaker's growing habit of financing AI startups hours after reporting $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue, more than double a year ago.

Nvidia forecasts 70% revenue growth as AI chip demand outstrips supply
The company's first-ever one-year revenue forecast calmed investor nerves, but CEO Jensen Huang admits demand is already running ahead of what Nvidia can ship.

Nvidia's real AI edge is not the chip. It's everything around it.
After a year of flat share prices and growing GPU competition, Nvidia's latest earnings have shifted how investors see the company. The advantage was never just about making the best processor.

Amazon Is Shutting Down Mechanical Turk, Its 21-Year-Old Human Task Platform
The crowdsourced work service that paid hundreds of thousands of workers pennies per task will close on 30 September 2026, leaving some full-time data workers scrambling.

Lambda Borrows $1 Billion to Buy Nvidia Chips, Then Rents Them to Microsoft
The AI cloud company is using short-term debt to fund a chip-leasing deal with one of the world's biggest tech companies. Bloomberg first reported the news, and it tells you a lot about how the AI buildout is actually being paid for.

Why Nvidia and Stripe Are Spending Billions on 'Free' AI
Open-weight AI models, the kind anyone can download and run, are suddenly the hottest things in tech dealmaking. Here is what is driving a buying spree worth over $26 billion.

EXL Buys AI Training Firm iMerit to Close the Gap Between AI Demos and Real Business Results
The New York services giant completed its purchase of iMerit this month, gaining the human expertise and data preparation work that AI models need before they can function reliably in hospitals, factories, and financial firms.

Barret Zoph lands at Google after a year of bouncing between OpenAI and Thinking Machines
The AI researcher has held four senior roles in roughly 18 months. His latest stop is Google's Gemini team, where his reinforcement learning expertise will be put to work.

Google's new video AI can extend a scene, jump to 4K, and cost less to test
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lands in the Gemini API with scene extension, keyframe control, cheap 360p drafts and 4K upscaling. What it costs and who actually pays.

Salesforce and Anthropic team up as customers get billed by the sip
A new Claude-powered product and strong quarterly numbers lifted Salesforce's share price, but the company's credit-based pricing model is drawing fresh scrutiny from analysts who warn of hidden cost spikes.

ChatGPT Will Now Show Ads to Free Users in India
OpenAI is rolling out advertisements inside ChatGPT for its free and low-cost subscribers in India, starting with 50 brands and a self-serve ad tool arriving next month.

Nvidia's Next Big Test: Can Ordinary Businesses Pick Up Where Amazon and Google Leave Off?
Nvidia earns most of its money from a handful of giant tech companies. Investors watching Wednesday's earnings want proof that thousands of smaller firms are finally starting to spend too.

Nvidia Just Posted $96 Billion in a Single Quarter. It Thinks $108 Billion Is Next.
The chip maker's data center sales more than doubled in a year, driven by relentless demand for AI hardware. Consumer GPU buyers are feeling the squeeze.