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State-of-the-art AI models are two-thirds smarter than last November, with two new models released every three days, yet 84% of tokens on OpenRouter are not state of the art, and the six most-used mod…
State-of-the-art AI models are two-thirds smarter than last November, with two new models released every three days, yet 84% of tokens on OpenRouter are not state of the art, and the six most-used mod…
Anthropic has widened its lead in business AI adoption, with 43.5% of Ramp's U.S. business clients paying for Anthropic services versus 39.7% for OpenAI, according to Ramp's August 2026 AI index. Howe…
Anthropic's AI solutions were used by 43.5% of U.S. businesses in July, a 1.1 percentage point increase month-over-month, according to Ramp's July AI Index. OpenAI's usage stood at 39.7%, up 0.23 perc…
Anthropic's Fable 5, considered the most powerful AI model on the market, accounts for only six percent of Anthropic tokens sold, according to Ramp data, suggesting corporate willingness to pay for fr…
Anthropic's share of US business AI spending rose to 43.5% in July, a 1.1 percentage point gain, widening its lead over OpenAI, which grew 0.23 points to 39.7%, according to the Ramp AI Index. xAI pos…
XAI released Grok 4.6 on Wednesday, claiming it matches OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol on several benchmarks, including the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, after partnering with and reportedly acquiring…
Ramp reported on August 12 that Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 generated approximately 75% as much model-attributed business spend as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol during July, with Fable accounting for 6% of Anth…
Anthropic's Fable 5 model generated 75% as much spend as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model in July, according to Ramp's AI Index, indicating weaker demand for Anthropic's priciest model among businesses. Ram…
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that activates only 3 billion parameters per inference step and delivers up to four times the output speed of co…
Mercury, a Silicon Valley banking solution, launched AI agent cards, virtual credit cards that let businesses delegate and automate purchasing decisions, as part of an expanded spend management offeri…
Eighty-eight percent of enterprises have reported at least one security incident tied to AI agents, and 61% of those trace back to over-permissioned credentials, according to a report cited in a new a…
A new study finds 62% of organizations faced an unexpected AI expense that materially altered a business decision in the past year, with 40% requiring board-level escalation, 33% implementing emergenc…
Startups in 2026 are replacing customer support headcount with AI agents, but successful deployments treat it as a tiered system, not a blanket replacement. Klarna's OpenAI-built assistant, which repo…
AI companies Harvey, Sierra, and Legora each crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue within nine months of each other, with valuations ranging from 25x to 125x current ARR, according to an an…
A Ramp study of more than 21,000 U.S. firms found that companies investing heavily in AI grew headcount by 10% overall and boosted entry-level hiring by 12% over two years, while the bottom two-thirds…
Databricks reports that large enterprises can cut AI coding costs by up to 90 percent by using open models, efficient routing, and other techniques, based on its internal data and conversations with S…
Ethyca launched Astralis on August 4, a platform for real-time governance of enterprise AI models' and agents' use of company data, combining automated privacy and AI assessments with purpose-based ac…
Canadian FinTech firms are facing intensified competition as international giants like Robinhood, Ramp, and Revolut enter the Canadian market, prompting domestic players such as Wealthsimple and Quest…
Reclaim, a new AI-powered job search tool for engineers, claims to replace keyword-stuffing with honest résumé tailoring and direct outreach to hiring managers, offering a 7-day free trial. The tool m…
Cooper Saye, a former engineer at Jane Street and fintech company Ramp, joined OpenAI on July 31, 2026, as a Member of Technical Staff to work on recursive self-improvement (RSI) evaluations, a role f…