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AI features were supposed to justify Canva's multiple. They compressed it by $7 billion instead, and most software companies have the same exposure.

Lowe's launched the biggest skilled-trades coalition in US history, with Nvidia as a founding member. It's the fourth in fifteen months.

The lab with the broadest grounds to drop Cursor is the one adding capacity, five months into buying compute from Cursor's new owner.

Your engineering team is talking about OpenClaw, NanoClaw, and Tank OS. Here's what all of it actually means, and why you should care.

Everyone says OpenAI's Epic integration just killed a thousand health tech startups. Epic did that itself in February, at 16 million chart summaries a month.

Nvidia is paying 86x revenue. The 2023 round was worse, and the price is 20 days of profit.

The plugin began as Anthropic's private setup for running Salesforce through Claude. The org it was proven in is five years old. Salesforce's entire pitch is that yours is much older than that.

CBRE's AI workforce count rose 131% in two years while tech employment rose 3%. The figure is drawn from self-reported LinkedIn profiles.

Open models finally caught the frontier this year. Enterprise adoption of them fell by half anyway. Hugging Face is being priced in the gap between those two facts.

Software development was the last big category of work that required leaving Slack. Salesforce just closed that gap, and coding is only the start.
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AI & Technology

Six days ago, we published a piece arguing that every AI subscription is a ticking time bomb for enterprise. We did not expect the fuse to be quite this short.

Every AI lab is losing money serving your company right now. They know it. And they are doing it on purpose.

Sam Altman offered $2 million in OpenAI tokens to every startup in Y Combinator's current batch. It looks like generosity. It's a distribution play disguised as an investment.

Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic today. Not quietly. Not after a gardening leave cool-down period. Not after a year on the bench while lawyers negotiated.

Slack, Fireflies, HubSpot, and the quiet data lockdown reshaping the build vs. buy debate.
Enterprise Strategy

AI Adoption Sticks When Leaders Are Willing to Fail in Public
Amplitude tripled its pull requests with the same headcount. Chief Engineering Officer Wade Chambers says the leaders who win at AI are the ones willing to go first.

EY Is Putting $100 Million Behind the Skills AI Can't Replace
EY will pay $100 million in bonuses for judgment and adaptability, a response to the entry-level work its industry automated away.

Companies Want Experienced People, But Nobody Wants to Train Them
Job openings that require no experience have fallen 73% in four years. Somebody still has to train the next generation of sales reps, and almost nobody is.

UBS Wants Proof You Can Use AI Before It Will Hire You
The Swiss bank has turned AI fluency into a screening criterion for its 2027 junior intake. The rest of European banking is watching.
The company that proved software could sell itself is now hiring engineers to go install it.
The largest consulting firms have converged on the same AI models and the same four workstreams. Their clients' positioning is converging with them.
A payments company just paid around $7.5 billion for a startup that decides which AI model answers your prompt. Most of the coverage assumes you already know what that means. This piece doesn't.
Business & Brand

A snapshot of what the AI establishment believes about itself, assembled by a company that profits from the belief.

Anthropic asks candidates if they'd accept the stock going to zero. The question is unscripted, already leaked, and impossible to score the same way twice.

The joint venture is five weeks old and already consolidating smaller shops. Its first target is small AI services firm with Netflix and Pepsi on the client list.

The most-shared corporate AI story on the internet holds up in outline. The filings show what actually did the work, and why almost nobody can copy it.

Target named Chandhu Nair its first chief AI officer this week, a role that will report into the company's chief information and product officer rather than to the CEO.
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