Ascentra Labs raises $2 million to help consultants use AI instead of all-night Excel marathons
While artificial intelligence has stormed into law firms and accounting practices with billion-dollar startups like Harvey leading the charge, the global consulting industry—a $250 billion behemoth [...]
This new AI technique creates ‘digital twin’ consumers, and it could kill the traditional survey industry
A new research paper quietly published last week outlines a breakthrough method that allows large language models (LLMs) to simulate human consumer behavior with startling accuracy, a development that [...]
On the day that Apple turned 50, the iconic US company that inspired Steve Jobs with the GUI hit rock bottom and may be on the path to obscurity
The contrast between Apple’s 50th anniversary and Xerox leadership change shows how early innovation alone rarely secures lasting relevance. [...]
Anthropic is giving away its powerful Claude Haiku 4.5 AI for free to take on OpenAI
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5 on Wednesday, a smaller and significantly cheaper artificial intelligence model that matches the coding capabilities of systems that were considered cutting-edge ju [...]
Amazon’s AI tool matches shelter dogs and cats with adopters in the Protect Playtime campaign
In short: Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab, PetIQ’s PetArmor brand, and Best Friends Animal Society have launched “Protect Playtime,” a campaign combining an AI-powered pet-matching tool on Amaz [...]
Google vs. OpenAI vs. Visa: competing agent protocols threaten the future of AI commerce
When Walmart and OpenAI announced that the retailer would integrate with ChatGPT, the question became how quickly OpenAI could deliver on the promise of agents buying things for people. In the battle [...]
