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Jeremy Kahn

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A startup buying up U.K. real estate brokers and streamlining their processes with AI gets $93 million in funding to fuel expansion

Dwelly, cofounded by former Uber and Gett employees, is backed by General Catalyst, Trinity Capital

25.02.2026 9

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Jeremy Kahn

How one AI company is helping businesses navigate Trump’s new tariff chaos following the Supreme Court ruling

Plus a chaotic AI Impact Summit wraps up in India and Anthropic accuses Chinese rivals of using Claude's answers to train their own models

24.02.2026 5

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OpenAI partners with McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, and Capgemini to push its Frontier AI agent platform

The new alliances heap further pressure on SaaS vendors such as Salesforce, Microsoft, Workday, and ServiceNow.

23.02.2026 5

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Matt Shumer’s viral blog about AI’s looming impact on knowledge workers is based on flawed assumptions

Shumer misses key distinctions between software development and other professional tasks.

13.02.2026 5

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Exclusive: Lawhive, a startup using AI to reimagine the general practice law firm, raises $60 million in new venture capital funding

The startup offers routine legal services using human lawyers assisted by AI software.

05.02.2026 8

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Short-seller claims IonQ, the biggest quantum computing company on the stock market, failed to disclose holes in its revenue

Short-seller Wolfpack Research says IonQ misled investors about cancelled government earmarks; it also points to suspicious insider stock sales.

05.02.2026 6

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Former Cohere exec Sara Hooker has raised $50 million for her AI startup Adaption Labs—a bet on smaller, smarter models

Hooker says she wants to "eliminate prompt engineering" with AI models that intuitively adapt to varying tasks

04.02.2026 7

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Moltbook is scary—but not for the reasons so many headlines said

It is people's devil-may-care attitude to the risk of AI agents that ought to really frighten us

04.02.2026 9

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In Moltbook hysteria, former top Facebook researcher sees echoes of 2017 panic over bots building a ‘secret language’

A 2017 Facebook experiment also drew alarming headlines. But then, as now, the danger was not what it seemed.

03.02.2026 5

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Exclusive: Long-time Google DeepMind researcher David Silver leaves to found his own AI startup

Silver's new startup Ineffable Intelligence will focus on developing 'superintelligence' using the same AI methods that led to Google DeepMind...

30.01.2026 6

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ServiceNow stock falls despite earnings beat as CEO Bill McDermott tries to get investors to stop thinking of it as a SaaS company

The workflow automation giant posted strong earnings and announced an Anthropic partnership, as it tries to convince Wall Street it deserves an AI...

29.01.2026 10

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At Davos, CEOs said AI isn’t coming for jobs as fast as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks

The Anthropic CEO warns 50% of entry-level white collar jobs will be gone in five years. Other tech CEOs see that as unlikely.

28.01.2026 8

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s 20,000-word essay on how AI ‘will test’ humanity is a must-read—but more for his remedies than his warnings

Anthropic CEO calls for AI companies to steer customers away from firing workers, wealthy tech billionaires to give away their money, and government...

27.01.2026 5

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AI luminaries at Davos clash over how close human level intelligence really is

Anthropic's Dario Amodei says it's coming soon. DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and former Meta chief scientist Yann LeCun think it's a more distant...

23.01.2026 10

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At Davos, AI hype gives way to focus on ROI

The hype around generative AI capabilities is giving way to harder questions about productivity gains and bottom-line impact.

21.01.2026 30

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Last year, AI hype wowed Davos. This year, leaders are obsessing over how to use the technology at scale

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

20.01.2026 10

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Wave of defections from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s $12 billion startup Thinking Machines shows cutthroat struggle for AI talent

Thinking Machines has lost three members of its founding team to OpenAI, while another cofounder left for Meta and more employees are reportedly...

16.01.2026 30

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Exclusive: Former OpenAI policy chief creates nonprofit institute, calls for independent safety audits of frontier AI models

Former OpenAI policy head Miles Brundage debuts AVERI, an institute advocating for independent safety audits of top AI models

15.01.2026 7

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What Apple’s AI deal with Google means for the two tech giants, and for $500 billion ‘upstart’ OpenAI

The multi-year partnership validates Google's AI comeback, highlights Apple's AI struggles, and could spell trouble for OpenAI.

14.01.2026 20

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As ‘agentic commerce’ gains ground, companies shouldn’t put too much faith in ‘GEO,’ one industry insider warns

Research from AIVO Standard shows that AI models are inconsistent and unreliable in answering questions about a company's finances or governance...

14.01.2026 40

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Anthropic unveils Claude for Healthcare, expands life science features, and partners with HealthEx to let users connect medical records

Anthropic's rollout of a healthcare product for Claude comes one week after OpenAI announced some similar features for ChatGPT.

12.01.2026 7

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Exclusive: Swedish startup automating mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings raises $20 million in seed round

Endra says it can reduce the time needed to design electrical systems from months to hours.

18.12.2025 10

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U.K. startup CellVoyant debuts AI platform that could radically reduce the cost of cell-based therapies such as CAR-T immunotherapy for cancer

CellVoyant says its FateView platform can reduce the cost of producing viable cells for therapy by up to 80%

18.12.2025 10

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Exclusive: Palantir alums using AI to streamline patent filing secure $20 million in Series A venture funding

Ankar's customers, including IP teams at L'Oreal, have reported a 40% productivity boost from using the tool

17.12.2025 20

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Google researchers unlock some truths about getting AI agents to actually work

The researchers found single AI agents do better at sequential tasks, multi-agent workflows at ones that can be done in parallel

17.12.2025 20

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Highlights from Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco

From deep dives into the enterprise deployment of agents to explorations of the new geography of data centers, Brainstorm AI provided a valuable...

12.12.2025 7

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OpenAI aims to silence concerns it is falling behind in the AI race with release of new model GPT-5.2

OpenAI said its new model outperforms those from rivals Google and Anthropic across a wide range of evaluations.

11.12.2025 10

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Google DeepMind agrees to sweeping partnership with U.K. government focused on science and clean energy

The collaboration will see the AI company collaborating with the British government on a robotic lab for new materials, fusion energy, and new...

11.12.2025 8

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The problem with ‘human in the loop’ AI? Often, it’s the humans

New studies show AI tools beating human professionals in law and advertising—challenging the assumption that human-AI collaboration always produces...

10.12.2025 10

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How Anthropic’s safety first approach won over big business—and how its own engineers are using its Claude AI

Anthropic engineers mostly use Claude for debugging, not writing new software, but they worry about deskilling

03.12.2025 8

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Five years on, Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold shows why science may be AI’s killer app

In five years since AlphaFold's debut, it has transformed basic biochemical research. But its long-term effect on drug discovery remains unclear.

28.11.2025 50

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang earnings call namechecked Saudi AI company Humain three times. Here’s why

Humain, founded by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has signed a series of landmark deals with Amazon and xAI that all involve Nvidia's AI...

20.11.2025 7

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Data-center operator CoreWeave is a stock-market darling. Bears see its finances as emblematic of an AI infrastructure bubble

Cloud-computing giant CoreWeave is valued at more than $50 billion, but a heavy debt load represents a major vulnerability.

08.11.2025 30

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AI bubble talk grips the market. The C-suite? Not so much.

Corporate executives are more afraid of missing out on tomorrow's AI capabilities than they that AI won't deliver ROI

30.10.2025 10

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Salesforce revamps Agentforce to try to pull customers across the gap between AI capabilities and AI adoption

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff acknowledges enterprises need hand-holding to build effective AI agents

21.10.2025 8

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OpenAI builds apps into ChatGPT, in a bold bid to make AI the ‘universal interface’ to our digital lives

OpenAI's chip deal with AMD makes a lot more sense if you think every digital interaction will be mediated by AI

07.10.2025 9

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AI models are already as good as experts at half of tasks, a new OpenAI benchmark suggests

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1 excelled at many professional tasks, especially those performed by clerks, software developers, and private investigators

30.09.2025 8

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OpenAI rolls out ‘instant’ purchases directly from ChatGPT, in a radical shift to e-commerce and a direct challenge to Google

The new Instant Checkout feature will be powered by Stripe's open-source "Agentic Commerce Protocol."

29.09.2025 9

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Nvidia’s $100 billion OpenAI investment raises eyebrows and a key question: How much of the AI boom is just Nvidia’s cash being recycled?

While not a huge fraction of Nvidia's revenues, circular deals raise the spectre of past technology bubbles.

28.09.2025 10

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Exclusive: Startup using AI to automate software testing in the age of ‘vibe coding’ receives $20 million in new venture funding

Founded in 2020, Synthesized helps enterprises like Deutsche Bank and UBS accelerate software quality assurance.

24.09.2025 9

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Exclusive: Former Google DeepMind researchers secure $5 million seed round for new company to bring algorithm-designing AI to the masses

Hiverge's backers include Flying Fish Ventures and legendary Google coder Jeff Dean.

17.09.2025 8

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What chatbot usage studies from OpenAI and Anthropic say about AI’s likely economic impacts

Both OpenAI and Anthropic studies show businesses using AI more to automate tasks than augment workers

16.09.2025 7

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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s ability to secure Nvidia GPUs has made it the cloud contender it never was and allowed Ellison to briefly surpass Elon Musk as the world’s richest man

Most of Oracle's surging revenue is coming from a $300 billion deal with OpenAI. Plus: Tucker Carlson grills OpenAI's Sam Altman, Klarna's IPO pops,...

11.09.2025 8

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Apple’s ultrathin iPhone impresses fans but not investors

Apple's shares drifted lower after its 'awe-dropping' hardware event. Meanwhile, markets await the Klarna IPO.

10.09.2025 10

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Anticipation builds for Apple’s ‘awe dropping’ iPhone 17 reveal

Apple will unveil its new lineup of iPhones today, but will it satisfy shareholders impatient with sluggish sales and the company's slow AI feature...

09.09.2025 10

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Is an ‘AI winter’ coming? Here’s what investors and leaders can learn from past AI slumps

Academic skepticism and business frustration have triggered past AI winters. This time, both factors are present. But there are key differences too.

03.09.2025 10

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AI chatbots for doctors are hot. But there’s plenty of value ‘down the stack’ too, argues Corti CEO

Corti started out selling AI software to support emergency services and doctors. Now it is mostly offering AI models, tools, and data center capacity...

03.09.2025 10

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Federal judge orders Google to end exclusive search distribution deals, but won’t force Google to sell Chrome

The ruling is part of the government’s landmark antitrust case against Google-parent Alphabet

03.09.2025 9

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We should have seen ‘seemingly-conscious AI’ coming. It’s past time we do something about it

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is not the first to ring alarm bells about AI chatbots that seem all too alive. It's time AI companies do more to...

26.08.2025 9

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An MIT report that 95% of AI pilots fail spooked investors. But it’s the reason why those pilots failed that should make the C-suite anxious

The lessons from the MIT study were less about what's wrong with AI models and more about what's wrong with the way companies are trying to use them

21.08.2025 30

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