The 5 AI Scaling Mistakes That Could Derail Your Business

Here are five costly mistakes businesses make when scaling AI, from runaway costs and weak governance to poor accountability plus how leaders can avoid them.

Dynatrace Pays $915 Million To Move AI Evaluation Upstream

Dynatrace already shipped LLM-as-a-judge evaluation. Its $915 million Arize deal buys something else, a position with AI engineers before an app reaches production.

OpenAI Now Has a ChatGPT Desktop App for Linux

Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora distributions get first dibs.

Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot
Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot

Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot’s voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it’s going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have “more to react to,” as reported earlier by GeekWire. Mico launched in Copilot’s voice mode last […]

Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs

Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai’s open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.

AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.

OpenAI is losing its second executive this week
OpenAI is losing its second executive this week

Another OpenAI executive is departing. Denise Dresser, who joined OpenAI as its chief revenue officer in December after serving as CEO of Slack, will be leaving in the “coming weeks” to “pursue other opportunities,” she said in a team note posted to LinkedIn. Dali Rajic, president and COO of Wiz, will be taking over the […]

OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT 5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed

OpenAI is launching a preview of a sped up version of its latest, most powerful model, in an effort to court enterprise users.

IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push

IBM plans to train and certify tens and thousands of consultants on OpenAI’s technologies as part of this deal.

Gemini 3.5 Pro Delay Continues

Repeated Gemini 3.5 Pro delays fuel concerns about performance, competition, researcher departures, and Google’s AI strategy.