AI adoption, enterprise software, data platforms, and the technology decisions shaping modern operations.
On May 5, OpenAI removed the $50,000 minimum spend and launched a self-serve Ads Manager at ads.openai.com. Any U.S. business can now buy ads inside AI conversations.
Anthropic had a busy Thursday. It closed a $65 billion Series H at a valuation just under $965 billion, which is probably its last private round before going public, and it shipped Claude Opus 4.8.
NVIDIA's CEO went on international television and called the AI layoff excuse "lazy" and "irresponsible." One week after DeepMind's CEO said the same thing in different words.
In the last seven days alone, the two biggest AI companies on the planet shipped, announced, acquired, partnered, and leaked more than most tech companies manage in a full quarter.
Microsoft launched Claude Code internally in December. Engineers loved it. Finance killed it six months later. The company that writes 30% of its code with AI just learned what that costs at scale.
The most consequential AI policy document the White House has produced since taking office was scheduled to be signed Thursday afternoon. CEOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple were invited.
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.
Anthropic's announcement on Monday isn't just a joint venture. It's a blueprint for a new operating model, one where every product and tech company builds, owns, and deploys AI trained on its own data.
Harvey raised at $11 billion on the promise that legal AI is its own platform, and then Microsoft bundled the same capability into a $30 Word subscription.
Your engineering team is talking about OpenClaw, NanoClaw, and Tank OS. Here's what all of it actually means, and why you should care.
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 this morning. Greg Brockman called it a step toward "more agentic and intuitive computing". And for brand leaders, the question isn't "should we adopt AI" anymore.
