The pitch for enterprise AI usually starts with the model. Mark Hura, Oracle‘s president of global field operations, wants to flip that. He spoke on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris. The companies winning with AI, he argued, are not shopping for an AI stack at all. They are chasing an outcome. Take a […]
Tech loves a perk, but few go this far. Rilla, an AI startup that makes coaching software for sales teams, spends about $1.7m a year on housing stipends so staff can live near its New York office, Fortune reports. The trade-off is a 72-hour week. Employees who live within a 10-minute bike ride of the […]
The ALL-IN Podcast took its live show to the Louvre this week for the RAISE Summit. It put ElevenLabs co-founder and chief executive Mati Staniszewski in the hot seat. Host Jason Calacanis opened where it stings: revenue, competition, and whether a voice startup can outlast OpenAI and Anthropic. “It’s the best time to be building,” […]
Perplexity wants a piece of the AI coding boom. The San Francisco search startup has built an internal coding tool, codenamed “Teammate,” and may launch it publicly later, a person familiar with the matter told Business Insider. Its own engineers have used the tool since May. The company made its name with an AI search […]
At RAISE Summit in Paris on Wednesday, “Shark Tank” investor Mark Cuban made the case for AI coding tools like Lovable and Replit, Business Insider reports. They can hold their own against the big AI labs, he argued. The reason: they now bundle services a raw language model does not. Cuban is a Lovable investor, […]
Young workers and their bosses do not see the same person. Almost half of 18 to 24-year-olds, 45 per cent, believe they entered work with the skills to succeed. Just 6 per cent of UK managers agree, according to the Chartered Management Institute. The body polled more than 1,000 managers and 514 young people for […]
Businesses spent big on AI to answer their customers. The customers had other ideas. People are approximately three times more likely to use a third-party GenAI tool, such as ChatGPT, than a company’s own chatbot to sort out a service problem, according to Gartner, Inc. The firm, a research and advisory company, surveyed 3,566 customers […]
At the Raise summit in Paris, two enterprise leaders asked why AI agents keep stalling in pilots. Their fix starts with people, not models. Most enterprises stall. Their AI agents run in pilots and never reach production. That was the blunt diagnosis from Daniel Dines, chief executive of UiPath. He spoke at the RAISE CxO […]
Europe’s biggest software company is tightening its belt to chase artificial intelligence. SAP is freezing most hiring and pausing non-essential travel, all to free up cash for its AI push. The plan landed in an internal email to staff on Wednesday evening. Bloomberg saw the memo, and SAP confirmed the move to The Register. Going […]
Palantir has a new enemy, and it is the way most of the AI industry makes money. Its nine-point manifesto tells institutions to hoard their data, own their model weights, and stop “tokenmaxxing.” It is a pitch dressed as a principle. On Tuesday, Palantir posted its “thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty” on X. […]
