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AI features were supposed to justify Canva's multiple. They compressed it by $7 billion instead, and most software companies have the same exposure.
Lowe's launched the biggest skilled-trades coalition in US history, with Nvidia as a founding member. It's the fourth in fifteen months.
The lab with the broadest grounds to drop Cursor is the one adding capacity, five months into buying compute from Cursor's new owner.
Your engineering team is talking about OpenClaw, NanoClaw, and Tank OS. Here's what all of it actually means, and why you should care.
Everyone says OpenAI's Epic integration just killed a thousand health tech startups. Epic did that itself in February, at 16 million chart summaries a month.
Nvidia is paying 86x revenue. The 2023 round was worse, and the price is 20 days of profit.
The plugin began as Anthropic's private setup for running Salesforce through Claude. The org it was proven in is five years old. Salesforce's entire pitch is that yours is much older than that.
CBRE's AI workforce count rose 131% in two years while tech employment rose 3%. The figure is drawn from self-reported LinkedIn profiles.
Open models finally caught the frontier this year. Enterprise adoption of them fell by half anyway. Hugging Face is being priced in the gap between those two facts.
Software development was the last big category of work that required leaving Slack. Salesforce just closed that gap, and coding is only the start.
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AI & Technology
Six days ago, we published a piece arguing that every AI subscription is a ticking time bomb for enterprise. We did not expect the fuse to be quite this short.
Every AI lab is losing money serving your company right now. They know it. And they are doing it on purpose.
Sam Altman offered $2 million in OpenAI tokens to every startup in Y Combinator's current batch. It looks like generosity. It's a distribution play disguised as an investment.
Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic today. Not quietly. Not after a gardening leave cool-down period. Not after a year on the bench while lawyers negotiated.
Slack, Fireflies, HubSpot, and the quiet data lockdown reshaping the build vs. buy debate.
Enterprise Strategy
Notion Is Un-Inventing Product-Led Growth. Its Newest Engineers Report to Sales.
The company that proved software could sell itself is now hiring engineers to go install it.
Accenture and Deloitte Are Selling the Same Brain to Every Company in Your Category
The largest consulting firms have converged on the same AI models and the same four workstreams. Their clients' positioning is converging with them.
AI Adoption Sticks When Leaders Are Willing to Fail in Public
Amplitude tripled its pull requests with the same headcount. Chief Engineering Officer Wade Chambers says the leaders who win at AI are the ones willing to go first.
EY Is Putting $100 Million Behind the Skills AI Can't Replace
EY will pay $100 million in bonuses for judgment and adaptability, a response to the entry-level work its industry automated away.
A payments company just paid around $7.5 billion for a startup that decides which AI model answers your prompt. Most of the coverage assumes you already know what that means. This piece doesn't.
Wade Foster opened Zapier's books on token spend. The number nobody in the industry can produce is the one on the other side of the ledger.
Stripe is paying north of $7 billion for the router behind AI's most-cited usage data. That router's impartiality was never audited, published or contractually committed.
Business & Brand
A snapshot of what the AI establishment believes about itself, assembled by a company that profits from the belief.
Anthropic asks candidates if they'd accept the stock going to zero. The question is unscripted, already leaked, and impossible to score the same way twice.
The joint venture is five weeks old and already consolidating smaller shops. Its first target is small AI services firm with Netflix and Pepsi on the client list.
The most-shared corporate AI story on the internet holds up in outline. The filings show what actually did the work, and why almost nobody can copy it.
Target named Chandhu Nair its first chief AI officer this week, a role that will report into the company's chief information and product officer rather than to the CEO.
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