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Sometime in the late 2000s, Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the back of a car, headed toward her great-grandmother’s tiny town in the south of Thailand. She watched big mountains pass by out the window. She was just six years old but was about to be hit by an adult-size realization. “They were just quarried…
Autonomous artificial intelligence agents have already penetrated the offices of large, global enterprises. Now, HoneyBook is trying to bring that same capability to independent businesses with the launch of HoneyBook MCP, recently released as a connector for Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude. The move addresses a real gap. McKinsey’s recent State of AI survey found that […] The post HoneyBook bets on agentic AI to streamline small business operations with its new Claude connecto
AI data centre regulation in Pennsylvania now begins with a signature. Before the state will so much as open a developer’s permit file, that developer has to sign a contract accepting a fixed set of conditions and the penalties for breaking them, and persuade the town that has to live with the building to say […] The post AI data centre regulation just got a template that needs no new law appeared first on AI News.
Advertising inside ChatGPT arrived with a promise that the assistant already knows what the user wants. So far, that hasn’t entirely been the case. Searchable, the AI visibility platform, analysed more than 11,000 ads served inside real ChatGPT conversations between 4 July and 4 August 2026, pairing every ad with the conversation it appeared in, […] The post A third of ChatGPT ads appear in irrelevant conversations appeared first on AI News.
What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.
SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.
A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.
The idea behind OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program is to give trusted defenders better models so they can report bugs and vulnerabilities to companies, with the aim of getting flaws patched faster.
The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.
As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance.
During a recent visit to Generalist AI, I watched a robotic arm improvise and use a banana as a tool.
Bankrupt Spirit accused of selling out workers in massive data sale to Google.
Anthropic announced last week it would include invisible watermarks in AI-generated content to comply with new EU rules. Within hours, overrides were being touted online.
The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending, there still isn’t a straightforward way to put a price on compute — or for firms to hedge their exposure when the price changes.  Silicon Data […]
Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a deliberate move at VentureBeat toward deeper specialization: analysis built for the technical decision-makers — the directors, VPs, CIOs, and CTOs — who are evaluating, buying, and deploying enterprise AI.The enterprise AI stack is being rewritten in real time, and the decision-
Amazon is making its AI-powered Alexa+ assistant free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the U.S., automatically upgrading users whether or not they subscribe to Prime.
TerraPower's nuclear power plant possesses a strategic advantage over competitors, especially when chasing after data center deals.
One ad featured a pornographic video with deepfake closely resembling a US politician.
Calendly is also releasing a meeting scheduling assistant called Callie
It's the data, stupid.
