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Publisher Execs Head to Key Biscayne to Confront AI Search, Google Zero and Shrinking Open Web
At the Digiday Publishing Summit, leaders from The New York Times, WSJ, Reuters and Politico will debate AI licensing, A...
AI Gave Professionals an Executor Before They Learned to Manage One
A business-school teacher argues the real AI adoption barrier appears after the first answer: staff recognise a wrong re...
Samsung Plans Record $65–80 Billion Shareholder Payout After AI Memory Boom
The Korean chipmaker's largest-ever return programme, including buybacks and dividends, is about five times its previous...
Hugging Face explores $13 billion sale as AI tooling valuations climb
The AI developer platform is reportedly working with a bank to gauge buyer interest at $13 billion or more, nearly tripl...
Academics Role-Play an Artificial Superintelligence Future in a Zoom Forum
Bryan Alexander's Future Trends Forum asked about 70 higher-ed professionals what a 2027 ASI announcement would mean for...
Anthropic's Public Debut Arrives as AI Backlash Becomes a Formal Risk
The Claude maker is heading for a record listing while investors, voters and politicians push back on AI data centres. I...
Alliant to Acquire AI-Native Benefits Brokerage Nava, Betting on a New Operating Model
The deal pairs Alliant's national scale and advisory expertise with Nava's HQ platform, which reports resolving 81% of m...
Stripe Strikes Reported $7 Billion Deal for AI Startup OpenRouter
Stripe is said to have agreed to buy AI model-routing startup OpenRouter for about $7 billion, a sharp premium to its la...
IIM Bangalore’s NSRCEL passes $7 billion in startup value as it pivots to AI and sector hubs
The incubator claims 3,000 startups and 35,000 jobs; its next phase targets one million entrepreneurs through AI learnin...
EY Creates AI Value Realization Office to Make Its $1.4bn AI Investment Pay
The Big Four firm is centralizing AI spending, usage and return measurement as token costs climb and clients ask for a b...
AI Buildout Repeats Three Enron Financial Tactics, but Is Not Doomed to Crash
Santa Clara professor Ram Bala says private credit, mark-to-model demand and circular vendor financing echo Enron legall...
AI Cyberattacks Shift Into Live Attack Chains as White House Prepares Classified Review
New Check Point and CrowdStrike research shows attackers using AI inside live operations, while universities face identi...
Microsoft Says Southern Europe's AI Lead Will Be Decided by Skills, Not Models
Microsoft’s Southern Europe VP sees Greece shifting from AI adoption to a regional hub, but the decisive bottleneck is r...
NYU Abu Dhabi's 84 Open Research Jobs Span AI, Climate and Engineering
A Times Higher Education job board shows 84 Middle East academic positions, with NYU Abu Dhabi dominating the visible op...
AI's New Gold Mine Is Trusted Data — and Yelp Is Sitting on a Rich Seam
AI adoption is surging, yet trust in AI-generated answers remains strikingly low. The Yelp–OpenAI licensing deal shows w...
Meta Opens Its Strongest AI Model to the Public and Challenges OpenAI and Anthropic
The social giant will release Muse Spark 1.2 weights and a laptop-focused Muse Glimmer family, positioning open-source A...
Thrive Capital's Joshua Kushner Warns AI Euphoria Is Eroding Venture Discipline
Thrive Capital's first investor letter discloses $60bn in assets and a 41% gross IRR while its founder argues Silicon Va...
Retail TouchPoints Sets Aug. 25 Webinar on Retailers’ AI Stack Ahead of Holiday 2026
Lowe's, Academy Sports + Outdoors, Bain and PwC executives are billed for a live discussion on where retail AI investmen...
Anthropic Q2 Revenue Jumps 14-Fold to $11.5 Billion Ahead of Planned IPO
Preliminary figures seen by Bloomberg show Anthropic's second-quarter revenue reached more than $11.5 billion, triple it...
Apple Trains a China-Specific AI Model With Alibaba
The iPhone maker is shifting from relying solely on local AI partners to building its own China model, as it races to br...
Target Appoints Lowe’s Veteran Chandhu Nair as First Chief AI Officer
Target pairs the new AI role with an expanded UX leadership mandate, aiming to turn its $2 billion turnaround investment...
Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for $6 Billion Ahead of IPO
Anthropic is reportedly negotiating a $6 billion acquisition of Israeli AI startup Decart, whose world-model and chip-ef...
OpenAI's Annualized Revenue Doubles to $40 Billion Ahead of IPO
The ChatGPT maker's run rate has roughly doubled since late 2025, powered by coding tools, subscriptions and an early ad...
Anthropic Reportedly Targets $2 Trillion Valuation in October IPO
Shareholders are reportedly pushing for an October IPO valuing the AI startup at $2 trillion, a move that would leapfrog...
Insurance Agencies Turn to AI-Guided Handwritten Notes for Renewals and Claims
Vendors say robotic pens and CRM triggers can send personal notes at renewals, claims and life milestones, promising ret...
Spotify to Label AI Artist Profiles and Remove Them From Recommendations
From mid-September, Spotify will exclude AI-generated artist identities from algorithmic playlists and radio, while new ...
Anthropic's Potential $2 Trillion IPO Would Shatter Wall Street Records
Investors expect Anthropic, the maker of Claude, to seek at least a $2 trillion valuation in a possible October 2026 IPO...
Why AI Will Always Need Humans, According to SAS's 50-Year AI Chief
SAS's applied AI leader explains 'boring' use cases that deliver fast ROI, while Zuckerberg's open-source essay and indu...
AI-Driven Attacks Set to Fuel a New Cybersecurity Spending Wave
AI is making cyberattacks far more effective, and Gartner projects security spending will hit $240bn in 2026. Specialist...
SAP and BBDO New York Launch 'Beginning of Better' to Reframe AI Fears
The enterprise software company positions its Autonomous Enterprise vision as the latest in a long history of technology...