ManufacturingMicrosoft Builds Its Own Models as OpenAI Ties Fray
MAI-1-preview and MAI-Voice-1 mark a correction after years of dependence on OpenAI
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RetailSalesforce Eliminates Nearly Half Its Support Staff After Deploying AI Agents
Marc Benioff says automation reduced 9,000 roles to 5,000, challenging industry claims AI would only augment workers
PharmaResearchOpenAI–Anthropic Safety Study Shows Limits of Self-Policing
OpenAI and Anthropic exposed vulnerabilities in each other’s models while governments move to build independent evaluators
RetailThe Researchers Leaving Meta, And Where They’re Headed
New hires exit within weeks, as internal memos reveal canceled projects and a focus shift to product delivery
RetailPerplexity Keeps Dodging the Obvious: License the News
Perplexity’s Comet Plus depends on browser adoption it doesn’t yet have
RetailAurasell Looks to be "AI-Native" Salesforce with $30M Seed
Aurasell raised $30 million within 28 hours of opening its seed round
ManufacturingNvidia’s Thor Makes Robots Smarter, But Not More Reliable
The real-world failures of robotaxis and humanoids show the technology’s present low viability
ManufacturingDatabricks Snaps Up Tecton After $100B Valuation
Databricks’ is on an M&A spree as Snowflake relies on its own engineering bench
RetailDecart Wants to End Doomscrolling with Real Time Video AI
CEO Dean Leitersdorf thinks it starts with fun
RetailOpinionIgniteTech Didn’t Fire 80% for AI. It Fired Them for Profits
The playbook: gut R&D, outsource staff, and call it transformation
RetailSynergySuite Wins $12 Million to Scale AI Tools for Multi-Unit Restaurants
Operators don’t need more dashboards and apps, they need answers
RetailTinyFish Lands $47 Million to Build Internet-Scale AI Agents
With early deployments at Google and DoorDash, the company is pitching its “enterprise web agents” as a new category
ManufacturingSoftBank’s Intel Bet Looks Like Another Misstep
Markets cheered Intel’s boost and punished SoftBank’s shares, a sign of where confidence lies
RetailParallel Says It Can Beat OpenAI at Deep Research
Parag Agrawal’s new startup makes bold claims, but without peer review, the evidence remains unproven
BankingParadigm Raises $5M to Reimagine the Spreadsheet
Backed by General Catalyst and Y Combinator, the startup embeds AI agents into the grid to handle repetitive business tasks
BankingCohere Bets on AI Sovereignty Over Scale
Cohere secured $500 million to expand its security-first AI platform for regulated industries
RetailCognition's $500 Million and “Extreme” Culture
A $9.8 billion valuation rewards its AI coding vision, but company culture may cost it resilience
ManufacturingCan a Generated World Train a Real Robot?
DeepMind and NVIDIA are chasing the same future from opposite ends
RetailDrivepoint Raises $7M to Scale AI Finance Tool for Retail Brands
The company cites average 6.7% EBITDA uplift among early customers
PharmaProtege Targets AI’s Data Bottleneck With $25M Series A
Protege positions itself as an intermediary for compliant data exchange