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AI is augmenting rather than replacing human workers in B2B customer support, according to data from Pylon, the agentic support platform. The technology resolves only about 15% of B2B support tickets end-to-end, compared…
Tidio, Intercom, and Wexio offer similar website chat widgets and AI-powered replies, but each tool serves a distinct market. Tidio targets small e-commerce stores under $1M ARR, Intercom is built for enterprise B2B team…
Groq, the AI inference chip startup founded by former Google TPU lead Jonathan Ross, is raising $650 million at a roughly $6 billion valuation to expand its GroqCloud services and develop next-generation LPU technology. …
Rivian Chief Software Officer Wassym Bensaid said the company is betting on AI-powered voice control as the primary interface for its vehicles, arguing physical buttons are an anomaly and that automakers do not need Appl…
Visa has made an undisclosed investment in AI coding platform Replit, with the two companies exploring how to integrate Visa's payment products so developers and AI agents can accept payments directly within the platform…
San Francisco-based Reactor, co-founded by former Apple Vision Pro technical leads Alberto Taiuti and Bryce Schmidtchen, has raised $59 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation f…
Massachusetts leaders are pitching the state as a haven for AI talent fleeing California's proposed ballot measure that would impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires' assets. Half of the 20 most valuable venture-…
A developer slashed their monthly AI API costs from $3,200 to $420 by switching from OpenAI's GPT-5.5 to Chinese models like DeepSeek V4, which costs 1/50th the price per output token. In production benchmarks, DeepSeek …
Intel announced the Intel Arc G-Series processors, designed for next-generation handheld gaming PCs, with models including the Intel Arc G3 and Intel Arc G3 Extreme built on the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) a…
Anthropic announced plans to expand its European workforce after opening a new office in Milan. The AI company will increase hiring across the region to support growing demand for its technology. The expansion signals An…
Amazon MGM Studios unveiled its first three AI-generated animated projects at the "AI on the Lot" conference on Wednesday, including "Cupcake & Friends" from BuzzFeed Studios, "Love, Diana Music Hunters" from former Nick…
UVeye, an Israeli vehicle-inspection company founded in 2014 by brothers Amir and Ohad Hever, is expanding its drive-thru computer-vision platform globally, operating over 1,000 systems and scanning more than 3.5 million…
Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch warned Europe has roughly two years to build independent AI infrastructure or risk becoming a "vassal state" under US influence. The French startup is constructing a 10-megawatt data center s…
A developer tested platforms for securely connecting AI agents to Slack, finding Paragon to be the most effective solution. Paragon's ActionKit product provides over 1,000 actions across 130+ integrations, enabling AI ag…
Anthropic, the AI safety company behind the Claude model family, opened a new office in Milan, marking its sixth European location in less than a year. The expansion follows a more than 9x year-over-year increase in the …
CNN sued AI company Perplexity on Thursday, alleging it engaged in "massive copyright infringement" by scraping more than 17,000 of the network's stories, photos, and videos without permission to train its products. The …
Three structural trends—the sociotechnical transformation of AI, the political economy of the AI investment bubble, and the financial crisis in UK higher education—are converging to destabilize universities. The declinin…
Media measurement provider Measured launched an MCP server on Thursday that lets marketers query ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other AI platforms about their media performance using natural language questions. The tool dra…
General Compute, a new AI inference neocloud, raised a $15 million seed round at a $60 million valuation to deploy specialized SambaNova chips for running AI models. The company has $300 million of the air-cooled SN50 ch…
Claude Code desktop app user and newsletter author Daniel used the AI tool to create a sponsorship landing page, replacing a Notion page that previously housed the information. The project demonstrates a low-stakes "vibe…