SoftBank is in a race against time to secure $22.5 billion for its OpenAI partnership before the end of the year. The funds are part of the massive $500 billion Stargate AI datacenter initiative. CEO Masayoshi Son is now personally reviewing any investment over $50 million.
Salesforce’s enterprise AI platform, Agentforce, saw a 48% surge, adding 6,000 customers in one quarter. This push to $540M in annual revenue highlights a growing gap between AI hype and real, deployed business solutions that companies actually trust.
The traditional online shopping funnel is collapsing thanks to AI search. Brands now need an awareness-first content strategy, treating their product pages as living infrastructure to keep up.
A new report reveals that AI is backfiring in the hiring process. Candidates are ghosting recruiters at record rates, often because automated systems make them feel disconnected and unimportant.
Apple is taking its time with AI, pushing a major Siri overhaul to 2026. The delay follows a muted WWDC and hints at a potential partnership with Google’s Gemini to catch up.
Visa is tackling the next frontier of e-commerce: AI agents that can make purchases on your behalf. Their strategy focuses on building a universal trust layer so these bots feel as safe and seamless as a regular card payment, without merchants having to rebuild everything.
Microsoft is rolling out a new “Explainer” feature for PowerPoint, powered by Copilot. It lets users right-click on dense slides for instant, simplified breakdowns. This could be a game-changer for deciphering jargon-heavy presentations.
The future of browsing might be AI agents doing the work for you. But a real-world test of the two leading contenders shows that future is still frustratingly far away. One agent, however, failed much more gracefully than the other.
OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $100 billion, which could value the company at $830 billion. The move signals a massive escalation in the capital required to compete in AI.
A new Nvidia supercomputer is set to go live in Cork, Ireland. The liquid-cooled system, built with eight B200 Blackwell chips, is an upgrade to the previous Boole system and is touted as a first for Europe.
