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Jeremy Kahn

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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 2

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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 3

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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 2

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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 4

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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 2

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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 30

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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 4

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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 5

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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 7

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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 5

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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 20

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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 4

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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 20

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on why AI agents won’t lead to mass unemployment

Benioff says AI agents do 30% to 50% of the work within Salesforce, but the tech isn't reliable enough to take humans out of the loop

30.07.2025 9

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What I learned at Fortune Brainstorm AI Singapore

AI adoption in Asia is charging ahead, despite challenges with AI agents and building "sovereign AI."

29.07.2025 4

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Coding has emerged as genAI’s killer use case. But what if its benefits are a mirage?

New research shows that coders vastly overestimated how much more efficient they were with AI help.

15.07.2025 2

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Companies want AI to be better than the average human. Measuring that isn’t straightforward

Average performance figures can mask critical difference between how AI systems work and how people think.

08.07.2025 6

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Key takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s memo on Meta’s new ‘superintelligence’ AI effort and big hires

The hiring spree and restructuring come as pressure mounts on Zuckerberg to justify Meta's massive capital spend on AI infrastructure

03.07.2025 20

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How AI is impacting lawyers, auditors, and accountants holds lessons for us all

Professionals report finding ROI from AI at a higher rate than those in other industries, but having a clear AI strategy makes a difference, Thomson...

01.07.2025 10

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Can AI help America make stuff again? 

A British startup, CloudNC, is reshaping American manufacturing one precision part at a time.

26.06.2025 10

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Insurance companies are embracing AI. But they aren’t talking much about ROI

Allianz and Axa top a new benchmark index of insurance companies' AI prowess.

24.06.2025 5

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Past the event horizon? OpenAI’s Sam Altman says so. New AI research backs him up

Researchers from Sakana AI and Google DeepMind have created AI that can improve its own code.

19.06.2025 4

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AI won’t cure ‘the infinite workday’ unless companies reengineer work, Microsoft says

Automating existing processes provides limited gains. Bigger leaps come from new workflows and organizational structures.

17.06.2025 7

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Exclusive: Easy-to-deploy industrial robot startup emerges from stealth with $8.5 million in seed funding

Backed by prominent European tech founders, Sunrise Robotics is building modular industrial robots to tackle a looming manufacturing labor shortage

13.06.2025 10

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Can AI be used to control safety critical systems? A U.K.-funded research program aims to find out

The U.K.'s ARIA wants to create a 'production facility' where AI will design and test new control algorithms for power grids, biopharmaceutical...

10.06.2025 4

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OpenAI says it wants to support sovereign AI. But it’s not doing so out of the kindness of its heart

OpenAI's chief strategy officer Jason Kwon suggests that capital and data will determine which countries benefit from working with the AI company.

03.06.2025 3

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Microsoft’s and Google’s dueling developer conferences reveal opposite AI strategies—and a big weakness for one company

Microsoft's focus on AI agents for enterprises may be easier to deliver than Google's consumer focus on a universal AI assistant because Microsoft...

22.05.2025 10

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A new AI for making predictions shows the power of more narrowly-focused foundation models

Kumo AI says its new model can make business predictions more accurately than LLMs and more accurately than many small models built specifically to...

20.05.2025 4

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Startup working on ‘reversible computing’ chip for AI says initial tests show a 50% energy savings

Vaire says its chips could be the key to solving the challenge of AI's massive electricity demand

20.05.2025 10

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Samaya AI, startup building AI for financial services, raises $43.5 million in VC funding

NEA led the round for the company, which is also backed by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Meta AI's Yann LeCun, Two Sigma's David Siegel, and former...

14.05.2025 6

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7 key takeaways from Fortune’s Brainstorm AI conference in London

Regulation is not the enemy of innovation was among the many insights from the two-day conference.

13.05.2025 6

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An Apple exec suggested AI chatbots were eroding Google’s search business, sending Alphabet shares plummeting. The truth is more complicated.

Alphabet execs insist search volumes are up, but market share is slipping and revenue growth appears to be slowing.

09.05.2025 8

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OpenAI hires InstaCart CEO Fidji Simo for major leadership role

The move may raise questions about Sam Altman's long-term commitment to remaining OpenAI's CEO

08.05.2025 20

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Microsoft’s strong quarterly earnings show no sign of AI disillusionment—or a Trump tariff hit

The company beat Wall Street forecasts for sales and profits and said its $80 billion data center build continues

01.05.2025 4

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For professional service firms, AI is a big help—but also a potential existential threat

AI is automating key business tasks. But does that mean business consultants will be replaced too?

29.04.2025 4

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ServiceNow’s CEO says company is capitalizing on economic upheaval—and projects revenue growth of more than 18% this year

The company's first quarter earnings beat market expectations and CEO Bill McDermott sees strong growth ahead

24.04.2025 7

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Trump’s restrictions on Nvidia’s China sales may not be enough to contain Beijing’s AI ambitions

The U.S.'s policy goals may not be coherent, while China's own chip efforts and distributed AI training grow more capable.

22.04.2025 3

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Exclusive: Biotech startup Profluent says it has discovered AI ‘scaling laws’ for AI models used in protein design

The company used its new ProGen3 AI model to create novel antibodies and gene editors.

16.04.2025 10

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AI company Hugging Face buys humanoid robot company Pollen Robotics

The purchase will see Hugging Face, best known for open-source AI models, selling hardware for the first time

14.04.2025 5

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Google Cloud moves deeper into open source AI with Ai2 partnership

Google says having open-sourcing models, including their training data, as AI2 does will help it win over customers in government, healthcare, and...

08.04.2025 20

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AI is changing work and how to look for work. A top LinkedIn executive explains how his service is adapting

The professional social network says 70% of the skills needed for your job will change by 2030.

02.04.2025 40

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AI agents are here. How afraid should workers be of losing their jobs?

Nearly one-third of workers already think that AI will lead to fewer jobs.

01.04.2025 8

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In CoreWeave’s lackluster IPO, some see signs of a looming AI bust. But CoreWeave’s problems are mostly about CoreWeave

The company's debt-fueled business model make it a poor proxy for gauging AI enthusiasm more broadly.

28.03.2025 7

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Exclusive: Japanese AI startup CADDi that helps manufacturers optimize supply chains gets $38 million in new funding

Atomico, the London-based venture capital firm, is leading the "Series C" extension for CADDi.

27.03.2025 10

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AI improves both individual and team performance, new study finds. Will companies draw the right lessons from it?

Working with AI gave individuals a big boost. But the most impactful ideas came when AI assisted human teams.

25.03.2025 3

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How news organizations should overhaul their operations as the gen AI threatens their livelihoods

Most news companies are using AI to tweak existing workflows, not rethink their business models.

19.03.2025 10

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AI was everywhere at Mobile World Congress, but there was a hint of desperation too

Network carriers want to be players in the AI revolution, but unlike the handset makers, they don't have a good hand to play.

11.03.2025 4

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