AI for spare parts startup Intropy raises $11M

A London-based AI for spare parts startup has raised $11m in new funding, as it targets US expansion. Intropy has raised a seed round from lead investor Felix Capital, with participation from Quiet Ca…

Blue Owl’s Stack seeks a $5.9bn loan, feeding the AI data-centre debt boom
Blue Owl’s Stack seeks a $5.9bn loan, feeding the AI data-centre debt boom

Stack Infrastructure, the data-centre arm of the private-credit giant Blue Owl, is seeking a loan of about $5.9 billion, Bloomberg reported. The deal, if it closes, would rank among the larger single financings in a market that has become the engine ro…

G2A.COM’s Autonomous AI Agent Dave Helps Sellers Resolve 14,400 Support Tickets in 63 Days
G2A.COM’s Autonomous AI Agent Dave Helps Sellers Resolve 14,400 Support Tickets in 63 Days

Dave, a New AI-Powered Tool for Sellers, Helps Resolve 54% of Their Cases and Efficiently Manages Demand Spikes During AAA Game Launches. Now available in 180 countries, it has reduced the number of tickets submitted to Seller’s Support teams by 30%. G…

Atlassian puts its engineers on an AI budget as the cost of ‘tokenmaxxing’ bites
Atlassian puts its engineers on an AI budget as the cost of ‘tokenmaxxing’ bites

The software maker cut thousands of jobs in the name of AI. Now it is handing the engineers who remain capped ‘AI wallets,’ a sign the industry’s token spending has become a line item to manage. Atlassian has started giving its engineers a fixed monthl…

OpenAI president confirms a family of ChatGPT devices is coming soon

OpenAI president Greg Brockman confirms the company is building a family of devices for ChatGPT, staying quiet on release dates, specs, and how the Apple lawsuit factors in.

Aligning the model was never going to govern it
Aligning the model was never going to govern it

Most AI roadmaps rest on a quiet bet: that the labs will eventually ship a model safe and aligned enough to simply trust in production. Better training, better guardrails, one more version, and the thing behaves. Here is the flaw in that bet. Even a pe…

The Growing Challenge of Digital Identity Is Shaping IntegraTRACE’s Vision for Enterprise Visibility
The Growing Challenge of Digital Identity Is Shaping IntegraTRACE’s Vision for Enterprise Visibility

Enterprise technology has become significantly more interconnected over the past decade. Cloud platforms, automation, artificial intelligence, and software integrations have allowed organizations to operate with greater speed and flexibility, but they …

Microsoft’s AI spending became cloud revenue. Meta’s became a cash-flow hole.
Microsoft’s AI spending became cloud revenue. Meta’s became a cash-flow hole.

Two of the biggest AI spenders reported on the same day. Microsoft’s spending showed up as cloud revenue. Meta’s showed up as a hole in its cash flow. Meta’s revenue rose 28% to $60.8bn, beating forecasts, CNBC reported. But profit fell 14% to $15.8bn,…

Microsoft’s Azure just crossed $100bn a year, and the AI bet mostly paid off
Microsoft’s Azure just crossed $100bn a year, and the AI bet mostly paid off

Microsoft went into its earnings facing one question: is the vast AI spending working? The numbers said yes, mostly. Revenue rose 18% to $90bn for the quarter to 30 June, and net income climbed 31% to $35.8bn, the company reported. Microsoft Cloud brou…