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OpenAI allies with 4 big consulting giants as the agentic enterprise battle heats up
OpenAI Group PBC said today it’s partnering with four of the world’s biggest technology consulting firms in an effort to help more enterprises adopt artificial intelligence agents. The ChatGPT maker has created an initiative it’s calling “Frontier Alliances” in collaboration with Accenture Plc., Boston Consulting Group Inc., Capgemini SE and McKinsey & Co.. They’re going ...
Anthropic slams Chinese AI firms for harvesting data from its Claude chatbot
Anthropic PBC is claiming that three Chinese artificial intelligence companies are illegally harvesting massive amounts of data from its chatbot Claude in an effort to accelerate the development of their own platforms. In a blog post today, Anthropic called out DeepSeek Ltd., Moonshot and MiniMax, three of China’s most prominent AI firms, accusing them of creating ...
Sam Altman defends AI’s resource consumption and ridicules Musk’s plan to put data centers in space
OpenAI Group PBC Sam Altman fielded questions in India this week about the environmental impact of artificial intelligence at a special event hosted by The Indian Express. But even as he conceded that AI’s total energy consumption is a legitimate concern, Altman contended that ChatGPT doesn’t really consume any more resources over its lifetime than ...
Agentic finance automation startup Stacks raises $23M in funding
London-based startup Stacks Technologies B.V. says enterprise financial operations are due for a much-needed injection of “agentic” automation after raising $23 million in an early-stage funding today. Today’s Series A round was led by the high-profile venture capital firm Lightspeed, and saw participation from General Catalyst, EQT Ventures and S16VC. It comes less than a ...
Flexible agentic marketing startup Kana Intelligence scores $15M in seed funding
Marketing professionals have a mountain of artificial intelligence tools to choose from, but the founders of a new startup called Kana Intelligence Inc. believe there’s still an urgent need for a platform that can adapt to user’s needs. The company today said it has raised $15 million in seed funding from Mayfield to build that platform. ...
Amplitude reports mixed earnings results after launching new agentic analytics tools
Shares of the behavior-tracking software company Amplitude Inc. edged barely higher in late trading today after it posted its latest financial results, maintaining momentum after rising more than 12% during regular trading hours. The after-hours gain was surprising, because Amplitude could only deliver mixed fourth-quarter results and guidance. It reported adjusted earnings of just 4 ...
ChipAgents secures $50M in funding to accelerate agentic chip design
Agentic artificial intelligence startup ChipAgents said today it’s ready to bring automation to one of the toughest challenges of all after raising $50 million in an early-stage funding today, bringing its total amount raised to date to $74 million. The Series A1 round was led by Matter Venture Partners and saw participation from Bessemer Venture ...
Efficient Computer raises $60M to keep AI devices running for months on end
Efficient Computer Co. says it’s going to make the dream of low-energy artificial intelligence computing a reality after raising $60 million in early-stage funding today. The Series A round was led by Triatomic Capital and saw participation from Eclipse, Overlap Holdings, Union Square Ventures, RTX Ventures, Toyota Ventures, Overmatch Ventures and others, bringing its total ...
With $20M in funding, Solid Data has a solid plan to improve the reliability of AI agents
Solid Data Inc. is trying to help enterprises get around the problem of error-prone artificial intelligence agents after raising $20 million in seed funding today. The round, led by Team8 and SignalFire, will help Solid to accelerate the deployment of its AI-ready semantic models, which are designed to help AI systems verify, prepare and understand ...
Meta agrees to buy millions more AI chips from Nvidia, raising doubts about its in-house hardware
Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed a new deal with Nvidia Corp. to buy millions of its next-generation Vera Rubin graphics processing units and a similar number of Grace central processing units to fuel its artificial intelligence ambitions. The deal, announced today, is likely to be worth billions of dollars. In a statement, Meta Chief Executive ...