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Strategy, markets, and industry structure.
IBM researchers got an older model to the top of a customer-service agent benchmark by having it write itself a rulebook from past attempts. Cheap, practical, and worth some skepticism about benchmarks.
Brazil’s Itaú is rolling ia.i toward its whole customer base by year-end — with IARA governance holding the regulated bank together.
Fish Audio's Drama 3 puts directable, multi-voice acting into open weights — great for indie dubbing and audiobooks, and another step toward cheap synthetic performance.
Floqer's AI agents scrape and enrich prospect data for B2B sales — and the startup plans to open-source the database so companies can host it themselves.
NVIDIA is open-sourcing the full Run:ai stack as the orchestration layer for DSX AI factories — and eight cloud and platform partners are already wiring it in.
OpenAI's run rate is reportedly closer to $50 billion than $70 billion, and the bigger lesson is how loosely the AI industry's headline revenue numbers are being built and compared.
Mirror Particle makes a sharp case against chatbots role-playing as shoppers, but its end goal, anticipating what individual people will do next, is where we start to worry.
NVIDIA says telecom carriers are betting on open models for control and local fit, a sensible trend from a vendor with an obvious stake in how it's framed.
Ars on The Information: Google’s ~100-publisher AI contribution pilot often pays a rounding error — roughly 0.1% of ad revenue for some — while a few early joiners do far better.
Harvey says GPT-6 Astra lets it feed more matter context into drafting and return more structured legal documents — so lawyers spend less time on formatting and more on strategy.
Ringg’s OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents handle 7M+ connected calls a month and resolve up to 65% of requests — with a reported ~90% model-cost cut on selected workloads versus GPT-4.1.
OpenAI just hired Patreon’s cofounder and two product/engineering leaders — the blueprint team for creator subscriptions — days before DevDay.