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Anthropic Valued at $900B in New Funding Round—Here's What It Means for Your Business Claude maker Anthropic is in talks to raise $50 billion at a valuation around $900 billion, according to sources. The AI company has received multiple pre-emptive offers in the $850 billion to $900
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How to Use AI to Create a Week of Social Media Content in One Hour If social media keeps falling to the bottom of your to-do list, you're not alone — and you're not lazy. You're just running a business. The good news is that
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Amazon Jumps on OpenAI Products—What This Means for Your Business Just a day after OpenAI freed itself from Microsoft's exclusive grip, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it's now offering a full lineup of OpenAI models directly on its platform. The new offerings include OpenAI'
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Best AI Tools for Small Business Accounting and Bookkeeping in 2025 If you're spending your Sunday nights catching up on invoices and expense reports instead of actually resting, you're not alone — and you're probably leaving money on the table too. AI tools for small
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Former DeepMind Star Raises $1.1B to Build AI That Teaches Itself David Silver, a legendary AI researcher who spent over a decade at Google DeepMind, just founded a new company called Ineffable Intelligence and secured $1.1 billion in funding at a $5.1 billion valuation. The startup'
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How to Use ChatGPT to Write a Business Plan (Step-by-Step Guide) Writing a business plan used to mean hiring a consultant, buying a template, or staring at a blank document for three weeks. ChatGPT won't replace your judgment — but it can do the heavy lifting on structure, wording,
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AI Agents Just Ran Their Own Marketplace—And It Worked Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, created an experimental classified marketplace where artificial intelligence agents acted as both buyers and sellers. The agents negotiated deals, completed transactions, and exchanged real money for real goods—all without human involvement. The experiment
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How to Use AI to Answer Customer Questions on Your Website Your customers are landing on your website at 11pm with a question about your return policy, your service area, or whether you're open on Saturdays — and nobody's there to answer them. An AI chatbot can
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OpenAI CEO Apologizes to Canadian Community Over Security Failure OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued a public apology to residents of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, after his company failed to alert law enforcement about a mass shooting suspect. In a letter to the community, Altman said he was "deeply sorry"
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Best AI Scheduling Tools for Small Service Businesses (2024 Guide) If you run a service business — a salon, cleaning company, massage practice, tutoring service, dog grooming operation — your calendar is basically your cash flow. Every missed booking, double-booking, or back-and-forth text asking "what times work for you?" costs
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Cohere and Aleph Alpha Merge to Build a Stronger AI Company for Regulated Industries Cohere, a Canada-based AI company, announced Friday that it's merging with Aleph Alpha, a German AI startup. The combined company aims to serve businesses and governments in regulated industries—like healthcare, finance, and law—
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How to Automate Customer Follow-Up Emails with AI (Without Sounding Like a Robot) If you're still sending follow-up emails by hand — or worse, forgetting to send them at all — you're leaving money on the table every single week. AI-powered email automation has gotten good enough that
