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Salesforce grows 10%, replaces 4,000 staff with AI agents
CRM giant’s Q2 revenue growth comes on the heels of CEO Marc Benioff announcing 4,000 customer service jobs have been cut in favor of AI.
OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn
The OpenAI Jobs Platform is set to launch in mid-2026, and will use AI to match candidates with businesses.
Anthropic joins White House pledge for AI education
Anthropic signs White House pledge investing in AI education for America’s youth, supporting AI students and educators nationwide
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Exposes The Hidden Flaws Holding AI Back
According to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, critical flaws are holding back the potential for AI’s long-term adoption in businesses.
Whenever I talk with people about AI, one of the first questions I get is almost always: what will this mean for my job? I believe…
Whenever I talk with people about AI, one of the first questions I get is almost always: what will this mean for my job? I believe AI will open up...
BBC Audio | The Today Podcast | Artificial Intelligence: An AI Boss Warns About The Risks (Dario Amodei)
The Anthropic CEO calls for more regulation and explains how AI could take your job.
Atlassian is buying Arc maker The Browser Company for $610 million
Atlassian wants The Browser Company’s Dia to be the “the AI browser for work.”
Company Replaces Customer Support With AI, Then Panics and Forces Engineers to Work the Phones as the AI Fails
Months after reversing course on its AI automation scheme, personal finance company Klarna is struggling to re-fill its ranks.
20VC + SaaStr is Back With Canva Founder Cliff Obrecht: Anthropic’s $13B Round, OpenAI’s $1.1B Statsig Acquisition & Why Public SaaS Is Back From The Dead
We’re back on 20VC+ SaaStr, and its a great one as Canva Co-Founder and COO Cliff Obrecht joins Harry, Rory and Jason for a deep dive into this week’s biggest...
How Anthropic’s enterprise dominance fueled its monster $183B valuation
At a time when the benefits of AI in the workplace are still being determined, the company behind Claude is making big strides with enterprise customers. How?
Tesla Pivots to AI and Optimus Robots in Master Plan Part 4
Tesla’s Master Plan Part IV shifts focus from EVs to AI and humanoid robotics, positioning Optimus as the future growth driver amid slowing car sales. Musk projects robotics could represent...
Wiley Touts AI Strengths in First Quarter Report
The publisher said it had executed a “landmark AI licensing project with a large tech company” and struck a “strategic partnership with Anthropic” in the period, reported $29 million in...
OpenAI Acquires Startup for $1.1B, Hires CEO
The acquisition of Statsig is one of OpenAI’s largest to date, and comes as it pushes the expansion of ChatGPT
Run Ventures Launches $290M Fund to Support Tech Startups Beyond Traditional Hubs
Run Ventures launches $290M VC fund led by Brandon Tidwell & Ben Dahl, focusing on Series A investments in AI startups beyond coastal tech hubs like Austin & Denver.
Dymesty AI Glasses: Everyday titanium eyewear with a full AI assistant built in
The Dymesty AI glasses provide the perfect fusion of premium eyewear, designed for long-lasting comfort, and a powerful AI assistant.
Apple May Bring AI Search to Siri Next Year, Plans to Use Gemini Models
A new report says Apple is moving to the next stage of testing its AI search features within Siri to take on the likes of ChatGPT and Perplexity.
Synthesia’s AI clones are more expressive than ever. Soon they’ll be able to talk back.
The uncanny valley is narrowing. Are we ready for what comes next?
The president blamed AI and embraced doing so. Is it becoming the new ‘fake news’?
Politicians are increasingly blaming artificial intelligence to dodge accountability for embarrassing situations.
Anthropic stake propels Qatar’s $524 billion wealth fund deeper into AI
Anthropic named the Qatar Investment Authority as a “significant” investor in a $13 billion financing round that valued the company at $183 billion.
Mistral, the French AI giant, is reportedly on the cusp of securing a $14 billion valuation
The 2-year-old OpenAI rival, founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, develops open-source language models and Le Chat, its AI chatbot built for European audiences.
The Great Rotation: How AI/ML Crushed Traditional SaaS in Seed Investing During 1H 2025, Per AngelList
The data doesn’t lie. But the story is more complex than “SaaS is dead” – it’s that SaaS without AI is dead. We’ve never seen a sector rotation this dramatic,...
New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats
Openly available AI tool creates steerable 3D-like video, but requires serious GPU muscle.
The ‘AI farming company’ Orchard Robotics bags $22m to expand precision ag platform
California-based Orchard Robotics secured an oversubscribed Series A funding round that will fuel expansion in the near future.
Huawei says its latest AI SSD breakthrough reshapes model training, raising doubts about whether HBM is still essential
Huawei OceanDisk promises lower costs for inference in AI deployments
OpenAI is hiring ‘AI-pilled’ academics to build a scientific discovery accelerator
Here’s what we know about OpenAI’s proposed science platform and GPT-5’s role in it.
Orchard Robotics Raises $22M to Build the AI Farmer and Secure America’s Food Supply
Founded in 2022 by Thiel Fellow Charlie Wu, Orchard is tackling one of the most significant challenges in modern agriculture: the lack of precise, field-level data.
UN Creates Two Mechanisms for Global Governance of AI
The United Nations has created two new global mechanisms for artificial intelligence (AI) governance, a move described by the Office of the
This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements
Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ dancing humanoid, can now use a single model for walking and grasping—a significant step toward general-purpose robot algorithms.
Tesla Shifts From EVs to AI: Musk Says Robots Will be 80% of Company Value
Tesla shifts focus from EVs to humanoid robots in Master Plan 4, betting on AI-driven “sustainable abundance” despite EV sales slump.
🎧 This AI Makes a Video Game World in 40 Milliseconds
Decart cofounder Dean Leitersdorf built a model that edits live video as it streams—here’s what he learned building it
Congress Considers Forcing Nvidia to Sell Leading GPUs to Americans First
The Senate is looking to add the ‘GAIN AI Act’ to a defense bill to ensure US customers, including startups and universities, receive priority access to Nvidia and AMD GPUs,...
Salesforce cut 4,000 customer support roles after deploying AI agents.
“I was able to rebalance my headcount on my support,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said during The Logan Bartlett Show when talking about the impact of the company’s agentic AI...
Nvidia, RealSense Partner to Accelerate Physical AI
Companies are combining their technologies to accelerate the development of next-gen humanoids and autonomous machines
SAIR: Accelerating Pharma R&D with AI-Powered Structural Intelligence
A Blog post by SandboxAQ on Hugging Face
NSF announces funding to establish the National AI Research Resources Operations Center
The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced a new solicitation to establish a National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Operations Center (NAIRR-OC). This marks a critical…
Qatar invests in Anthropic’s record $13B funding round
The Qatar Investment Authority joined with more than a dozen other firms in a round valuing the AI firm at $183 billion.
Microsoft co-founder sets up $3.1 billion endowment targeting artificial intelligence, climate
The $3.1 billion Fund for Science and Technology is separate and distinct from the $1.3 billion Allen Family Philanthropies.
Gemini’s replacing Google Assistant on Google Home devices from October 1 — here’s what we know
Google Assistant’s days are numbered
Google’s AI rivals get a boost from data-sharing order, but tech giant far from routed
A rising group of artificial intelligence companies stand to gain from an antitrust ruling on Tuesday that ordered Alphabet’s Google to share its invaluable search data with competitors.