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OpenAI Brings Codex to Mobile—What It Means for Your Workflow OpenAI is expanding access to Codex, its AI coding assistant, by bringing it to smartphones and mobile devices. The move gives business owners and their teams the ability to write, debug, and manage code directly from their phones instead
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Legal Tech Startup Clio Hits $500M Milestone—Here's Why AI Investment is Exploding Clio, a cloud-based legal practice management platform, just crossed a major threshold: $500 million in annual recurring revenue. The Canadian company's growth comes as Anthropic, an AI safety company, ramps up its own
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A* Closes $450M Fund to Back AI and Fintech Startups—Here's What It Means Kevin Hartz's venture firm A* just wrapped up fundraising for its third fund with $450 million in committed capital. The firm plans to use the money to back roughly 30 startups across
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Robinhood Launches Second Venture Fund as AI Investment Wave Heats Up Robinhood, the online brokerage known for making stock trading accessible to everyday people, has filed confidentially with regulators to launch a second venture capital fund. This new fund will focus on investing in growth-stage and early-stage startups, doubling down
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Lime's IPO Gamble: What the Scooter Company's Market Debut Means for Your Business Lime, the micro-mobility company behind those electric scooters cluttering city sidewalks, is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO). The move signals growing investor confidence in the transportation-as-a-service market, even as the company
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Stop Nodding Along: Your AI Glossary for Small Business Owners AI has exploded into everyday business conversations, but the terminology can feel like learning a new language. Terms like "large language models," "prompt engineering," and "hallucination" get thrown around in meetings and articles without
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Judge Blocks Government's $100M Grant Cancellations Over Improper AI Use A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) acted unconstitutionally when it canceled over $100 million in grants. The 143-page decision found that DOGE used ChatGPT to evaluate grant programs without proper legal review
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OpenAI Launches Voice Intelligence Features for Your Business OpenAI just released new voice intelligence features through its API, allowing developers to build systems that understand and respond to spoken language. The tools work across customer service platforms, educational apps, and creator tools—essentially any place where your business interacts with
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Snap and Perplexity Part Ways on $400M AI Search Deal Snap and AI search startup Perplexity have ended their partnership agreement, according to an announcement from Snap this week. The companies had signed a $400 million deal last November that would have integrated Perplexity's AI-powered search engine directly
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SAP Bets $1.16B on German AI Lab—What This Means for Your Business Enterprise software giant SAP announced it will acquire German AI startup Prior Labs and invest heavily in developing new AI technology. The company is also restricting which AI agents customers can use on its platform, currently
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AI Chip Maker Cerebras Heads for Blockbuster IPO as OpenAI Partnership Deepens Cerebras, a specialized AI chip manufacturer, is preparing for an initial public offering that could value the company at $26.6 billion or more. The company has built a particularly close working relationship with OpenAI, the creator of
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AI Startup Accused of Stealing Popular Meme for Labor-Replacement Ad Campaign Artisan, an AI startup, used the "This is fine" meme—created by artist KC Green—in billboard advertisements without permission. The ads promoted Artisan's hiring automation tools with the tagline "stop hiring humans."
