Why Sequoia And A16z Paid $40 Million For A Plumbing Dispatch Seat

One startup pays cleaners to film your kitchen while another gets paid to run plumbing dispatch. Both are chasing the data the physical world never uploaded.

Agentic AI Rewrites The Playbook As Snowflake And Okta Soar

Snowflake’s blowout quarter and Jensen Huang’s agentic AI case just buried the SaaS is dead trade. Here is the consumption pricing playbook every software CEO needs.

Amazon ups India bet with fresh $13B AI infrastructure investment

Amazon’s latest India investment comes as global tech companies race to expand AI infrastructure in the country.

Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems
Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems

To celebrate its new status as No. 1 in JD Power’s initial quality ranking among mainstream automakers, Ford is opening up about the challenges it has faced in recent years, especially around its reliance on automated systems in production and design. It turns out that those automated systems were not as robust as previously assumed, […]

As Hollywood jobs dry up, workers are quietly training AI models to survive

As Hollywood jobs grow scarce, writers, editors, and executives are quietly taking AI training gigs just to make ends meet, even as the pay is unstable and the work chaotic.

AI Startups With No Revenue Are Using This Tactic To Supersize Their Valuations

Funding rounds where VCs can invest at wildly different prices are helping AI founders raise unprecedented amounts of money at sky-high valuations, before they even have a product.

Whoever Wins AI Will Count Transformers, Not Nvidia Chips

AI’s next bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s transformers, grid capacity, and whether data centers can get enough power to turn the GPUs on.

Facebook’s Creator Studio has been revived as an AI companion app
Facebook’s Creator Studio has been revived as an AI companion app

Meta is bringing back the Facebook Creator Studio page manager, now “reimagined” as a standalone AI companion app. The new app aims to make it easier for creators to connect with their audiences and show them “exactly how to grow on Facebook,” according to Meta’s announcement. Meta’s AI Creator Assistant is a central focus of […]

How The Human-AI Trust Bond Can Become Ruptured When Using AI For Mental Health Advice

The human-AI trust bond is vulnerable when people discuss mental health issues with AI. I tell how and why trust fluctuates, and what to do about it. An AI Insider scoop.