Databricks chief information officer Naveen Zutshi was named an Executive of the Year for deploying Genie, an AI agent that lets the company's roughly 11,000 employees query internal data, conduct res…
Conveo.ai, a Y Combinator-backed AI research platform founded in 2024, is hiring a Senior Product Engineer in New York City, with the company growing from about 20 to 120 employees this year. The role…
A new report from Canva finds that 97% of marketing leaders use AI in their daily creative work and 99% plan to increase AI investment this year, even as Gartner reports that 49% of U.S. consumers thi…
A new enterprise AI methodology, the Agentic Adaptation Playbook, urges CIOs to start AI transformation with a free, honest meeting rather than a build-first question, according to a series by an unna…
An estimated 99% of Fortune 500 companies now use some form of automation in hiring, with 88% using AI for initial screening and about 70% allowing AI to reject candidates without human oversight, acc…
BluePill has launched the Breakfast Marketplace, the world's first AI consumer twin marketplace for research, built from 60-minute in-depth surveys with 1,000 US breakfast consumers. The platform offe…
A 2025 study in the Academy of Management Journal found that leaders who rely heavily on AI-generated communication are perceived as less authentic by employees, potentially undermining trust and enga…
Freehand, a San Francisco startup, closed a $75 million Series B on July 29 to expand its autonomous AI agents that handle supply-chain spending decisions for Fortune 500 companies including Meta, Uni…
Unilever has built a network of 300,000 creators, activating 50,000 at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, to compete against global brands like Coca-Cola and Adidas, CEO Fernando Fernández credited creators for…
Freehand, a startup whose AI agents manage supply-chain procurement for Unilever, Pfizer, and Meta, has raised $75 million in a round co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners. The compa…
Freehand raised $75 million to expand its AI agents that manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 companies, with Meta and Unilever among the clients handing their supply chains to the AI agents.…
TechEx Europe 2026 will take place on 19–20th October 2026 at the RAI in Amsterdam, bringing together more than 8,000 technology professionals for eight co-located conferences covering AI, cybersecuri…
Brand tracking startup Tracksuit has acquired Hall, a Sydney-based startup that measures how brands appear in AI assistant responses, adding AI-monitoring capability to its existing business of survey…
C1's founder and CEO, publishing a six-month dogfooding experiment with 125 employees across engineering, GTM, security, and support, argues that winning the agentic shift depends on cultural adaptati…
Unilever USA president Herrish Patel announced the company's largest-ever sports partnership as official personal care sponsor of the 2026 World Cup, aiming to build 'desire at scale' in the U.S. mark…
TechEx Europe 2026 will take place on 19-20 October at RAI Amsterdam, gathering over 8,000 senior enterprise technology leaders across eight co-located events focused on AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and …
Microsoft announced Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating business focused on AI-driven transformation, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 industry and engineering experts. The compan…
Microsoft launched Microsoft Frontier Company, a new business unit dedicated to AI-driven enterprise transformation, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 embedded experts. The unit combines i…
Microsoft launched a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier Company on Thursday, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 experts, to deliver enterprise AI deployments. The venture, whi…
Unilever is transforming its marketing model by treating creators as a new mode of engagement rather than a media channel, with plans to spend half its media budget on social channels and increase inf…