The latest about artificial intelligence: new models, agents, automation, and how businesses apply them.
Anthropic told shareholders it expects positive adjusted operating income for a second quarter in a row, with gross margins above 80% and annualised revenue at $65bn in July.
Evvy closed a $40M Series B led by Catalio Capital to scale its AI platform for women's health, already used by 100,000 patients and 3,000 practitioners.
An AWS study of 3,400 founders found AI-native startups hit billion-dollar valuations in about 3.5 years with roughly half the staff, pushing liquidity events years earlier.
Senators Kennedy, Sanders and Hawley are pushing AI rules while industry leaders ask for oversight, yet no committee or floor dates exist for any of the bills.
Donald Trump phoned Jensen Huang during the All-In Summit and called AI takeover fears a hoax, while Huang took a narrower position.
EUCLYD closed a Series A of more than €200 million co-led by Samsung and EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund to build ultra-efficient silicon for AI inference.
Seattle startup Nuance Labs closed a $50M Series A led by Lightspeed to build a single full-duplex model that makes AI avatars react in real time.
Aron has raised $8 million across two rounds and says its AI agents cut the RFQ workflow by an average of 21% while removing the need for supplier portals.
Analysts at The AI ROI in Contact Center Summit said resolution quality, not containment, becomes the unit of value for AI deployments.
Agents named Ren, Timmy and Jackie asked Mastodon admins for accounts and offered writers paid citations, with some emails lacking an opt-out.
As AI agents take on research, files and deliverables, the ability to set a clear assignment becomes a core business skill, a Stanford preprint suggests.
Talkdesk research: 98% of companies deployed AI in the customer journey, but only 15% combine agentic AI with cross-departmental orchestration.