Why You Don’t Want Humans Doing Outbound Anymore
SaaStrAI — This week a sales rep at one of the leading public B2B software companies emailed me twice in 48 hours. The first email offered “insight” on buyer intent and AI efficiency, shared none,…
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Business and Industry covers the commercial adoption of artificial intelligence across corporate sectors and economic markets. Truncated covers enterprise deployments, industry investments, market trends, workforce impacts and regulatory compliance.
When AI Does The Deciding, Who Gets The Loyalty?
Forbes — The consumer relationship with brands isn't disappearing into AI, but it is being rerouted through it.
Lessons from building Copilot Cowork
Command Line — Plus a case study where we put everything together by moving our runtime from Python to Rust while live.
How AI Applications Earn Their Premium
a16z.news — Cheaper intelligence raises the bar for what an AI application can charge
Reaping and sowing, CEO edition
404 Media — Also: Consider the Apple slop, Texas data center troubles, and more from 404 and around the web.
Omen AI adds liquid know-how in $16 million Aquatic Labs acquisition
TechCrunch — Two startups tackling the data center water problem are joining forces in a $16 million deal.
Anthropic posts $567 million Q3 operating loss as growth cools ahead of IPO
Media Buying Briefing: Overheard at Media Buying Summit: How AI is helping and hurting client relations and office work
Digiday — Worries about lazy use of AI for client briefs and internal documents has agencies wondering how to make better use of the tech.
Wall Street opens higher, rebounding after last week’s rout in AI trade By Investing.com
Investing.com — Wall Street opens higher, rebounding after last week’s rout in AI trade
OpenAI’s ad bet depends on user trust
The Deep View — Large language models can fundamentally shift the digital advertising space. OpenAI is offering a peek behind the curtain at how. The AI lab published a deep d...
Midstream Health nabs $20M series A to help hospitals recover lost margin
Fierce Healthcare — Health systems are losing margins they’ve already earned, according to Sumit Kadakia, CEO and co-founder of Midstream Health. | Health systems are losing margins they’ve already earned, according to Sumit Kadakia, CEO and co-founder of Midstream Health. The startup bets artificial intelligence can improve hospital margins by finding money that is already embedded in contracts and transactions.
Corporate America's AI bills are piling up. This startup raised $30 million to help.
Business Insider — Larridin raised $30 million from Pelion Ventures, a16z, and others to help companies track their AI spending and measure returns.
Spotify plans to let users remix artists' songs using AI next year, but it'll cost up to $5 extra per month
TechSpot — The Financial Times reports that Spotify aims to launch its AI-powered remixing service in the first quarter of 2027, meaning it could be unveiled around February's Grammy Awards.
Smartly Launches Intelligence Pro to Connect Campaign Planning, Performance and Incrementality
MarTech Series — Smartly, the AI-powered advertising technology company, launched Intelligence Pro, a premium offering that brings together four capabilities to help marketers plan investment
Amazon says more than 400M customers have used Alexa for Shopping in the last 12 months
Digiday — Amazon customers who use Alexa for Shopping are spending 50% more than those who don’t use the shopping service
Clarivate to Bring Trusted Trademark Data into Microsoft Copilot Through IPOne
MarTech Series — Clarivate Plc, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, announced it will bring trusted CompuMark trademark data and insights into Microsoft Copilot through IPOne, enabling intellectual property (IP) professionals to put authoritative trademark intelligence to work directly within AI-powered workflows.
Google search loses its free pass with buyers
Digiday — For the past two decades, Google search was the line item that advertisers never questioned. That's changing.
ChatGPT now lets you lock private chats with a PIN
Fox News — OpenAI's new locked chats feature lets you protect ChatGPT conversations with a PIN, Face ID or Touch ID, but there are key privacy limitations.
Marvell and Lumentum officially plan to combine. Here’s what to know.
Saudi Aramco takes 49 percent stake in AI firm Humain with $2.6 billion deal
The Decoder — Saudi Aramco is buying into Humain, the company meant to turn Saudi Arabia into a global AI hub.
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