The AI Confidence Trap: Workers Say They’re Ready, but ROI Is Stuck at 57%
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The AI Confidence Trap: Workers Say They’re Ready, but ROI Is Stuck at 57%

New survey data shows 90% of employees feel confident using AI, yet half say it can take longer than doing the task manu...

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Anthropic’s Claude Tag Now Reads Full Slack Conversations and Acts Unprompted
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Anthropic’s Claude Tag Now Reads Full Slack Conversations and Acts Unprompted

Anthropic’s Slack agent now reads full conversations, then chooses whether to reply, open a thread, route work or stay s...

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EY Creates AI Value Realization Office to Make Its $1.4bn AI Investment Pay
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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...

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Anthropic Reportedly Targets $2 Trillion Valuation in October IPO
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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...

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OpenAI Previews Ultrafast Mode Promising 14x Faster GPT-5.6 Sol
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OpenAI Previews Ultrafast Mode Promising 14x Faster GPT-5.6 Sol

OpenAI is previewing Ultrafast, a mode it says runs GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14x speed and 750 tokens per second for enterpr...

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Why AI Will Always Need Humans, According to SAS's 50-Year AI Chief
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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...

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Starburst Signs F1 Champion Lando Norris to Front Global Enterprise AI Campaign
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Starburst Signs F1 Champion Lando Norris to Front Global Enterprise AI Campaign

Starburst's Ask. Know. Go. push puts the 2025 Formula 1 champion at the centre of a B2B effort linking racing decisions ...

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OpenAI-Backed Thrive Holdings Raises $2B to Push AI Into Physical Infrastructure
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OpenAI-Backed Thrive Holdings Raises $2B to Push AI Into Physical Infrastructure

The $12B-valuation AI roll-up will add a physical-assets compliance platform, backed by SoftBank, D1 and Altimeter, afte...

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Gartner: Enterprise AI Moves from Experimentation to Industrialized Delivery
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Gartner: Enterprise AI Moves from Experimentation to Industrialized Delivery

Gartner's 2026 Hype Cycle report highlights a pivotal shift: firms must now build governed, repeatable AI systems—and pr...

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From Levi's to EY: How Major Firms Are Deploying AI Agents to Redesign Work
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From Levi's to EY: How Major Firms Are Deploying AI Agents to Redesign Work

Enterprise AI is moving beyond boosting individual output. A new wave of agents is executing whole business processes, f...

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Palantir posts record quarter as CEO Karp calls AI frontier labs 'Marxist'
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Palantir posts record quarter as CEO Karp calls AI frontier labs 'Marxist'

Palantir's Q2 revenue jumped 93% to $1.9B and profit hit $1.1B, as CEO Alex Karp used the results to warn enterprises ag...

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Benioff-Backed June Raises $20M to Automate Enterprise AI Deployment
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Benioff-Backed June Raises $20M to Automate Enterprise AI Deployment

Former Salesforce executives launch June with $20M from Marc Benioff's Time Ventures to automate the messy work of enter...

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The Booming Business of Cutting Enterprise AI Costs
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The Booming Business of Cutting Enterprise AI Costs

Consultants, measurement platforms and infrastructure startups are racing to help enterprises stop overpaying for AI. Me...

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DataBahn raises $40M to sell the data 'plumbing' AI agents depend on
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DataBahn raises $40M to sell the data 'plumbing' AI agents depend on

Texas startup DataBahn has raised a $40M Series B to sell a neutral data layer for AI agents — betting enterprises need ...

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AI's Hidden Cost: Uber, Microsoft and Ford Show Why Companies Must Watch the Bill
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AI's Hidden Cost: Uber, Microsoft and Ford Show Why Companies Must Watch the Bill

Unchecked AI spending can dwarf productivity gains, as Uber, Microsoft and Ford discovered. For enterprises, watching th...

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Amazon Pours $1B Into New Role That Embeds AI Engineers With Customers
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Amazon Pours $1B Into New Role That Embeds AI Engineers With Customers

The tech giant’s AWS Forward Deployed Engineering team aims to build agentic AI systems in days, not months, as the once...

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Anthropic's Claude Models Accessed Three Companies' Systems Without Permission
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Anthropic's Claude Models Accessed Three Companies' Systems Without Permission

A review of 141,000 tests found three Claude models accessed real company systems despite being told no internet was ava...

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Onyx Security’s $113M Series B Puts Human Control at the Center of Enterprise AI Agents
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Onyx Security’s $113M Series B Puts Human Control at the Center of Enterprise AI Agents

The Israeli startup, now valued at $640M, offers a real-time control plane to inspect and block agent actions before the...

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The Wrong AI Model Costs More Than No Model at All
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The Wrong AI Model Costs More Than No Model at All

Forrester warns that using generic AI for every task leads to silent errors, regulatory risk, and hidden costs. The fix:...

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Satya Nadella Warns Firms Outsourcing Their 'Thinking' to One AI Model Won't Survive
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Satya Nadella Warns Firms Outsourcing Their 'Thinking' to One AI Model Won't Survive

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella issued a stark warning that enterprises must retain control of their prompts, data, and mode...

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Why HDFC Bank, Wipro, Palo Alto and Zepto Are Betting on Domain-Specific AI
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Why HDFC Bank, Wipro, Palo Alto and Zepto Are Betting on Domain-Specific AI

At Network18's Rising Bharat Summit, executives from HDFC Bank, Wipro, Palo Alto Networks and Zepto argued that enterpri...

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AI Agents, Enterprise Bets, a Ransomware First, and a $1B Workforce Fund: The Week AI Shifted Gear
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AI Agents, Enterprise Bets, a Ransomware First, and a $1B Workforce Fund: The Week AI Shifted Gear

A flurry of announcements from Meta, Anthropic, Microsoft and others shows agentic AI is leaving the lab and entering op...

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BIZ Knowledge Launches Secure AI Platform for Enterprise Data Cross-Search and Automation
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BIZ Knowledge Launches Secure AI Platform for Enterprise Data Cross-Search and Automation

The Japanese startup’s AI platform searches internal documents, automates report and contract creation, and stamps out ‘...

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