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funding, startups, jobs, and how people and companies are actually making money with AI
Suno Is Adding Watermarks to AI Music and Cutting Back on Free Downloads
The AI music platform wants to prove it can be a responsible player in the industry. Here is what is actually changing, and what it means if you use the service.
A startup called Naïve wants AI software to run your entire company, and 30,000 developers signed up to try it
Naïve just raised $28.5 million to let AI agents handle the paperwork, phone numbers, payments and cloud setup that normally eat a founder's first weeks. The real prize, though, is cutting the runaway cost of keeping those agents running.
Lloyds Bank's AI cost-cutting plan has a hidden tab: who pays when the machine gets it wrong?
A researcher argues that banks counting only the minutes AI saves are ignoring the hours other workers spend fixing the mistakes it creates.
Baseten Joins Hugging Face as an Inference Provider, Bringing Popular AI Models to More Developers
Developers can now run open-weight AI models through Baseten directly from the Hugging Face Hub, with no extra markup on costs and two billing paths to choose from.
The team behind Spotify's recommendation engine just raised $10 million to do the same thing for online shopping
Malachyte wants your favourite store to know what you need before you even search for it, using real-time signals instead of last month's purchase history.
Mirendil signs $100 million-plus Google Cloud deal to build AI that improves itself
The AI startup, founded by former Anthropic researchers, will use Google's chips and cloud infrastructure to develop systems designed to get smarter on their own over time.
The 22-year-old AI call centre company that thinks chatbots are overrated just raised $67 million
Athens-based Omilia has been automating customer phone calls since 2002. Its CEO says rivals are making a costly mistake by using heavy AI for every task, no matter how simple.
Nobody Has Figured Out How to Price AI Yet. That Is a Problem for Everyone
Companies are paying for AI by the token, a tiny unit of text the software processes, but nobody, not startups, not Microsoft, not the firms selling AI services, can predict how many tokens a task will burn. Budgets are blowing up, and the bill lands before anyone notices.
Asana built AI agents that share memory across your whole company, with a wall around the secrets
The project-management company's new system lets AI teammates learn from every task they touch, but blocks them from passing confidential information to people who shouldn't see it.
Big Tech's AI bets are making corporate profits look much bigger than they are
Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet booked billions in paper gains from their stakes in Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX. Strip those out and earnings growth looks a lot more ordinary.
Meta launches Muse Code, an AI coding agent built for giant software projects
Meta's new terminal tool can plan, write and test code across huge codebases, and it spins up multiple AI sub-agents at once to get big jobs done faster.
Klaviyo buys AI startup Agency and gets a new product chief in the same deal
The e-commerce marketing platform is acquiring a three-year-old AI startup founded by a serial entrepreneur who once hired Klaviyo's own CEO, and is now joining to lead its AI push.
AI Music Tool Treblo Says Its Own Detector Found Its Fingerprints All Over Fenix Flexin's Hit 'Rubberz'
The company built a classifier to spot songs made with its technology. The first song it flagged with high confidence may be on the Billboard Hot 100.
SpaceX Is Really a Satellite Firm That Rents Out Computer Power. The Rockets Are Almost a Side Note.
The company's first public earnings report shows Starlink internet and data centre leasing dwarfing actual space business, and Elon Musk's grand orbital plans look a lot like wishful thinking.
AI search is sending more shoppers to Shopify stores, not fewer
While publishers watch AI summaries drain their traffic, Shopify says AI-driven visits and orders to its merchants tripled year-over-year in Q2 2025.