Tech lifts world stocks as CoreWeave revives AI trade
Tesla is making a major shift as Elon Musk pushes the company toward a different future…
Jay Roxe is Chief Marketing Officer at Inriver. gettyEarlier this year, my company fielded a benchmark study of 405 senior technology, data and marketing executives across industrial manufacturing and wholesale distribution. We asked two kinds of questions. First, how capable do you believe your product data operations are? Second, what do those operations actually deliver?…
By Arnab Bose, Chief Product Officer, Asana. gettyThe rapid rise of AI agents has prompted predictions about the “death of the user interface.” As agents become more capable, it’s easy to imagine a future where work happens entirely through prompts and conversations. However, that misses the bigger transformation underway. Enterprise software isn’t losing its…
OpenAI has acquired an AI travel agent called Odessia, according to Odessia’s founder, Francis Davidson. Davidson says in a post announcing the deal that he’s now working for OpenAI, helping the AI lab with the future of travel. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but this looks like an acqui-hire. Davidson’s announcement focused largely…
While established venture firms continue to attract capital, first-time fund managers are facing one of the toughest fundraising environments in years. But that didn’t stop Sahir Raoof, a former SignalFire investor and executive at two healthcare startups, from raising $27.5 million for his first solo VC fund. Raoof’s firm, Proximal Ventures, is betting that AI…
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Pankaj Prasoon is Sr Director Finance Tech & Strategy at LinkedIn, leading finance technology and building AI fluency across finance teams. gettyConsumption pricing hands finance an operating expense with the volatility of a commodity, a demand curve tied to its own success and no natural owner. Every cost that finance manages has a behavior we…
Rohit Kedia is a software architect turned CEO of Xoriant, a AI-native Applied Intelligence digital engineering company. gettyFor years, retailers have invested heavily in building a unified view of their customers, bringing together interactions across channels to better understand their behavior. But in engineering over 350 platforms across Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, and…
California voters have rejected Proposition 40, the state’s proposed one-time tax on billionaires, the Associated Press reported Monday. The measure failed after an expensive campaign that pitted labor unions against some of tech’s wealthiest figures. It was also opposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Nic Carter lives about as far from Silicon Valley as you can…





