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The Rise of LLMs Is Not an Accident

Over three decades, I’ve watched consumer behavior evolve across television, search, and social media. Each shift changed tactics, but not the underlying logic of decision-making. What I am watching happen right now is different. And I know I am not alone. Every seasoned marketing professional I speak to, whether they built their career in offline […]

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Salesforce is selling the AI future harder than it is delivering it

Salesforce has a problem that no amount of marketing can fix. The company has built its entire narrative around Agentforce, its AI agent platform, and the numbers look impressive on paper: 29,000 deals closed, $800 million in annual recurring revenue, and a roadmap that promises to replace entire categories of human work. But Wall Street […]

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Sora shutdown leaves Critterz at the Cannes market without its model

The OpenAI-backed family animation that was meant to prove generative AI could ship a real movie has missed its festival window, in part because the video model it was built on no longer exists. Critterz, the OpenAI-backed animated feature that was being positioned as the first mainstream commercial film made through a generative AI pipeline, […]

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DeepSeek founder declares AGI as the goal as $10bn funding round advances

Liang Wenfeng tells prospective investors the Hangzhou lab will prioritise frontier research over revenue, in its first-ever external raise. DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has told prospective investors in the company’s first outside funding round that the lab intends to pursue artificial general intelligence as a primary goal, and will keep releasing open-source models rather than […]

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ClickUp cuts 22 per cent of staff and introduces $1 million salary bands for those who remain

ClickUp, the $4 billion productivity platform, has cut 22 per cent of its workforce. CEO Zeb Evans announced the layoffs in a post on X, framing them not as a cost-cutting exercise but as a structural bet on AI. The savings, he said, will flow back to the employees who stay in the form of […]

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GitLab 19.0 bets that the real bottleneck in software delivery is everything after writing the code

GitLab has released version 19.0, its first major version bump in a year, built around a concept the company calls intelligent orchestration. The pitch is that AI coding assistants have made writing code faster, but reviews, pipelines, security scans, and deployments remain manual bottlenecks. GitLab wants to close that gap. The release expands the GitLab […]

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Google’s AI search overhaul is great for Google and bad for everyone who makes the web worth searching

Google called it the biggest change to its search box in 25 years. At I/O 2026, the company unveiled a complete overhaul of Search built around AI mode, conversational follow-ups, and autonomous agents that monitor the web on your behalf. Head of Search Elizabeth Reid described the result as “AI search through and through.” For users, the […]

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Brett Adcock’s AI hardware startup Hark raises $700m at $6bn valuation

Two months out of stealth, the founder of Figure and Archer has a chip-and-model stack and a chip-and-model-stack-sized cheque to match. Hark, the AI hardware company that Brett Adcock began funding out of his own pocket late last year, has raised more than $700m in a Series A that values it at $6bn, according to Bloomberg. […]

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Grok’s federal stall is undercutting SpaceX’s IPO growth story

Downloads have fallen from 20m in January to 8.3m in April, paid conversion is a fifth of ChatGPT’s, the $0.42-per-agency GSA deal is now stalled, and SpaceX has rented out the Memphis Colossus 1 cluster to Anthropic for $1.25bn a month. SpaceX’s S-1 filed on Tuesday rests on an AI-revenue line Grok is no longer […]

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