Lantern, an e-commerce startup founded in 2024, has raised $3.1 million in seed funding led by Salesforce Ventures to focus on generative engine optimization (GEO), helping brands improve visibility i…
AI strategist Sol Rashidi, chief strategy officer at Cyera and a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, told Business Insider she deactivated half of her autonomous agents because they were unreliab…
AI strategist Sol Rashidi fired half of her AI agents after spending more time supervising them than doing useful work, a phenomenon called 'botsitting' that a Glean report says costs white-collar wor…
Newly wealthy individuals from the AI boom are driving a surge in luxury spending on watches, housing, travel, and wellness services, according to Business Insider. Scott Kerr of Silvertone Consulting…
AI coding tools like Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex are reshaping software engineering, splitting developers into enthusiasts, skeptics, and those in between. A Stack Overflow survey found near…
UBS analysts found that roughly 60% of enterprises are throttling AI spending by adding guardrails, creating a modest headwind for AI model makers. The trend boosts the value of cheaper open-source an…
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said concerns about data centers are 'overblown' at an AWS conference, arguing their benefits outweigh environmental costs and comparing opposition to past anti-fracki…
Thieves stole more than $300,000 worth of copper wire and other data center supplies from facilities in Alabama and Florida, with the stolen goods recovered in a Chicago-area truck yard. The theft hig…
Marketing leaders from Autodesk, Kimberly-Clark, SharkNinja, and Zoom argued at a Business Insider roundtable that human taste and discernment are becoming competitive advantages as AI democratizes co…
Amazon Web Services announced a $1 billion investment to embed forward deployed engineers within customer networks, aiming to help organizations become self-sufficient with AI. The role, which has see…
OpenAI is set to unveil Codex Micro, a physical macro pad keyboard designed to enhance Codex usage, on July 15. The device, developed in collaboration with keyboard maker Work Louder, was previewed at…
A study by Ramp and Revelio Labs found that companies spending the most on AI are hiring faster, including entry-level roles, challenging the narrative that AI causes mass layoffs. The research tracke…
Cook County Sheriff's Office investigators recovered two stolen trailers containing about $300,000 in copper wire spools and approximately $1 million in data center infrastructure equipment at a truck…
Yousuf Imran, a Google Cloud account executive earning $986,000 in 2025, quit in April 2026 to found Mangosteen Studio, an AI product lab, citing fear of layoffs and FOMO about the AI boom. He noted t…
Microsoft stock is on track for an 18% decline in June, its worst month since 2000, with shares down 24% year-to-date and roughly $857 billion in market value erased. The sell-off, driven by investor …
Former Google engineering leader Hugh Williams used Anthropic's Claude Code to build Zettair, a search engine indexing 1.5 million Wikipedia articles, while writing zero lines of code himself. The pro…
Alphabet joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 29, with its stock rising about 4% on the debut, making it the sixth-largest weight in the index at roughly 4%. Despite the symbolic milestone,…
Journalist Joanna Stern spent a year integrating AI into her family's daily life, testing chatbots, robots, and self-driving cars. Her experiment, documented in a book and reported by multiple outlets…
Ford Motor Company rehired 350 veteran engineers after automated quality systems and AI tools failed to catch defects in vehicle parts, according to Bloomberg. Kumar Galhotra said the company had over…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong outlined five AI cost controls that cut the company's AI bill by nearly half while allowing engineers to increase token usage, including defaulting to cheaper open-weight …