Starbucks Is Using AI to Build Its Own Software to Replace Microsoft and IBM Tools
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Meta's new image model launched this week with a consent policy buried in the fine print. If your profile is public, you were opted in before you finished reading this sentence.
Lovable, the Stockholm vibe coding startup, is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion post-money valuation
Figma has acquired the team behind Bud, the Y Combinator-backed vibe-coding and AI agent platform formerly known as Orchids.
Your engineering team is talking about OpenClaw, NanoClaw, and Tank OS. Here's what all of it actually means, and why you should care.
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing the company of stealing trade secrets to build its first consumer hardware device.
Here's a stat that should terrify Anthropic: DeepSeek just took the lead in token volume on Vercel's AI gateway, processing over a third of everything flowing through the platform.
Anthropic's researchers found a small collection of internal neural patterns inside Claude that behave differently from everything else going on in the model.
Nvidia is offering to guarantee revenue for smaller GPU cloud providers by promising to rent back any capacity they can't sell, and in exchange it will take a percentage of those customers' cloud revenues.
The world's largest asset manager has identified a constraint on the AI buildout that no amount of GPU procurement can solve: there aren't enough people to wire the data centers.
On July 2, the Financial Times reported that OpenAI has proposed handing the US government a 5% stake in the company.
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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
Amazon Bets $1 Billion on "Forward-Deployed" AI Engineers, the Same Wager OpenAI and Anthropic Already Made
The cloud giant is the latest and largest name to embrace a deployment model pioneered by Palantir. The race has shifted from who has the best model to who can get it running inside your company.
PwC Tech Chief: AI Is Overwhelming Workers Faster Than Companies Can Lead Them
James Shira oversees technology and security for one of the world's largest professional-services firms. His argument to other leaders: the hardest part of the AI transformation is the weight it places on people.
Starbucks Is Using AI to Build Its Own Software to Replace Microsoft and IBM Tools
Starbucks spends $400 million a year on software, and it just told Microsoft and IBM it might not need them.
Uber's "Agentic Pods" Show What Happens When AI Moves Beyond Engineering
For most of the past two years, the story of AI adoption inside big tech companies has been an engineering story. Uber has now given one of the clearest public looks at the next chapter.
Good enterprise software was assumed to be expensive, slow, and painful to replicate, which is exactly why acquirers paid steep multiples for it. Bain & Company just put a price on that assumption.
A new post on how the company runs its own analytics doubles as a quiet argument: the thing knowledge platforms charge a premium for is becoming the floor.
Two months ago it was Meta logging keystrokes to train AI. Now a Canadian bank is tracking its financial-crime staff to lift productivity.
Business & Brand
Tom Blomfield built one of Britain's biggest banks. Anthropic just hired him to solve a different scarcity problem: compute.
Starting January 1, 2027, SaaS and AI subscriptions sold into California will carry the same sales tax as furniture and appliances.
Anthropic, one of the most valuable AI companies in the world, file a trademark infringement and unfair competition suit against Abnormal AI on July 1st claiming that Abnormal AI copied Anthropic's slash-style logo.
PwC analyzed more than a billion job ads and found that AI is reshaping junior roles rather than erasing them.
For decades, State Farm sold its agents on a simple promise: build a book of business and live off it for life. That promise is now gone, and what replaced it should make anyone who earns a living on commission sit up.
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