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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...
UK Growth Data Show AI Boom Is Beginning to Lift the Economy
ONS figures show ICT and computer programming accounted for almost half of second-quarter UK growth, with hardware inves...
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: Silicon Valley Needs Consumer AI to Win Over Regular Americans
Chesky says AI's poor public image is partly a product problem: too many enterprise tools, too few things ordinary peopl...
Anthropic backers eye $2 trillion IPO, topping SpaceX
Investors cited by the FT expect Anthropic to go public at about $2 trillion on surging Claude sales, with talks reporte...
White House Moves Ahead With Voluntary Frontier AI Cybersecurity Testing
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Nvidia met with officials, but the evaluation benchmark remains classified and no ag...
UNAM Applicants Say Scheduling Failures Are Blocking Them From the Control Exam
Two days before the Aug. 12–19 control exam, some of the 58,783 UNAM applicants say they still cannot get an appointment...
Google DeepMind's Leadership Shake-Up Tests Its Scientific Independence
A CEO-to-chair move, key departures and missed model deadlines leave Google's flagship AI lab defending its London-roote...
World Bank: Developing Countries Have Less to Fear From AI, but Depend on Outside Tech
The World Bank's 2026 World Development Report says AI could help low- and middle-income countries catch up faster and b...
Google Gemini Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly Users as Voice and Screen-Sharing Surge
Google's Gemini passed 1 billion monthly active users in August, up from 950 million in July, even as Google shares fell...
Nvidia Loses $130 Billion in Market Value on Reports of a $500 Billion AI Financing Plan
Shares fell 2.4% to about $218 on Monday as the Financial Times reported Nvidia is working with Apollo, Blackstone, Blac...
Google DeepMind Expert: No Evidence of AI Job Collapse, but AI Panic Could Trigger Copycat Layoffs
Alex Imas says current data do not show a white-collar employment collapse from AI. The bigger near-term risk, he argues...
FAA to Begin AI Rollout in September to Cut Weather Delays by Next Summer
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says new AI air-traffic software will deploy in phases starting September, with the ...
Target Creates Chief AI Officer Role as Retail AI Leadership Goes C-Suite
Target names Chandhu Nair as its first chief AI officer, following Walmart's high-paying AI executive push. The move tes...
Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: Open Models, Earlier U.S. Oversight, $1 Billion Fund
Meta's CEO urges open-source AI and earlier government collaboration, defends distillation, and launches a $1 billion da...
Tencent Says WeChat Will Become AI-First as It Front-Loads AI Capex
Tencent's earnings call positioned WeChat as an AI-first ecosystem, with Work Buddy as a model-agnostic coordinator and ...
ADWEEK’s 2026 Tech Stack Awards: The Martech That Turns Data into Real Revenue
From agentic AI to incrementality measurement, this year’s winners show how marketing technology is closing the gap betw...
IBM Strikes $240M Deal with $8.3B Startup Together AI for Massive Inference Infrastructure
The multi-year agreement will see IBM’s cloud host Nvidia-powered systems dedicated to running open-source AI models fro...
Bentley University Reimagines Tech as a 'Learning Partner', Not Just a Tool
A lecturer and student from Bentley's CIS Sandbox argue that edtech is shifting from information delivery to interactive...
Eldridge Takes $75 Billion Portfolio on an AI Push, Buying Stake in Sudolabs
Investment group Eldridge, led by billionaire Todd Boehly, is rapidly deploying AI across its 100+ companies—from Chelse...