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Okara, an AI CMO platform built by a team of four, now manages marketing for 120,000 companies by processing 4 billion tokens daily through a multi-provider AI stack on Vercel. The platform deploys eight specialized sub-…
Okara, an AI CMO platform built by a team of four, processes 4 billion tokens daily and manages marketing for over 120,000 businesses by directing eight specialized sub-agents across SEO, content, and social media. The c…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has only one direct report — his chief of staff — while his sister, co-founder and president Daniela Amodei, oversees the rest of the executive team and day-to-day operations. The unusual struc…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on Washington to regulate the most powerful AI models under an FAA-style safety regime that could delay, block, or reverse releases failing public safety tests. The proposal, covered Wed…
Sarah Guo, a prominent AI investor and Cognition backer, published an essay arguing that the most defensible AI companies will be those focused on "untrainable" work—integrating models into messy, private customer realit…
Fermi (FRMI) shares surged 22.6% after securing backing from a major artificial intelligence company. The endorsement signals growing confidence in Fermi’s technology and positions the firm for expanded AI-related applic…
Accenture plc (ACN) has invested in AlphaSense, an AI-powered market intelligence platform, as part of its strategy to expand capabilities in artificial intelligence and data-driven insights. The investment aims to enhan…
Apollo Global Management and Blackstone Inc. have finalized a $35 billion deal to acquire a stake in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot. The investment marks one of the largest priva…
Stripe expanded its Projects platform with new agent integrations, 16 additional service providers, and enhanced developer controls, enabling AI agents to independently provision infrastructure and manage services from t…
Visa integrated its payment network into ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to make purchases at any Visa merchant without human authorization. The development capped a week of major AI advances including Anthropic's release of…
General Motors is partnering with Peak Energy to develop sodium-ion battery cells for grid-scale energy storage, not for electric vehicles. GM Ventures is making a strategic investment in Peak Energy, with GM developing …
Guan Wang, CEO of Sapient Intelligence, claims his researchers trained a 1 billion parameter language model from scratch for approximately $1,500, according to a June 10 VentureBeat report. The model, called HRM Text, is…
SpaceX is reportedly pursuing a $250 billion IPO, while KEEL has issued a $458 million convertible note and Hut 8 has completed a $4.25 billion senior note offering. OpenAI is also planning a 10-gigawatt datacenter, acco…
Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI, has launched a new company focused on personalized artificial intelligence, Bloomberg reported on June 10. The venture shifts Babuschkin away from the race to build large…
SoftBank’s attempt to secure a loan using its stake in OpenAI was rejected by creditors, according to sources familiar with the matter. The Japanese conglomerate had sought to borrow against its holdings in the artificia…
Top AI voice Allie K. Miller told the WorkLab podcast that organizations should empower unconventional thinkers to experiment with AI, prioritizing speed and iteration over perfection. Miller argued that agentic workflow…
Ari Jacoby's Concentrate AI launched from stealth Wednesday with over $5 million in funding, entering the competitive AI routing market dominated by OpenRouter. The company aims to serve as a control plane for businesses…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees the company will go public "within the next year," though a delay to 2027 is possible. Altman cited caution around self-improving AI as the reason for the timeline, but rival Anthropi…
Datadog and ClickHouse announced a partnership to allow organizations to route logs directly to ClickHouse through Datadog Observability Pipelines and search those logs from the Datadog Log Explorer. The integration, now…
SoftBank attempted to secure a $6 billion loan using its stake in OpenAI as collateral, but the Japanese conglomerate's shares subsequently plunged 9.7%. The failed borrowing effort and stock decline raise questions abou…