Target appoints its first chief AI officer as retailers scale up AI spending
Target appoints its first chief AI officer as retailers scale up AI spending

Target has named Lowe’s executive Chandhu Nair as its first chief AI officer, starting August 24. IBM research puts the share of organisations with a chief AI officer at 76% this year, up from 26% in 2025. Target has appointed its first chief AI office…

How to choose an app development agency for your startup: a founder’s guide
How to choose an app development agency for your startup: a founder’s guide

For founders building from idea to MVP to scale, Chop Dawg makes the case for choosing a technical partner with process, staying power, and long-term accountability. Start With the Decision That Shapes the Product For a startup founder, the first versi…

PwC is hiring fewer consultants and accountants. Its CEO is still sending his kids into consulting.
PwC is hiring fewer consultants and accountants. Its CEO is still sending his kids into consulting.

The Big Four built its fortune on armies of junior consultants and accountants. PwC has started hiring fewer of them. Its US boss says that is the future, and he is comfortable with it. Paul Griggs, PwC’s US senior partner and chief executive, told Bus…

The unsexy layer AI agents actually need: DataBahn raises $40m to sell it
The unsexy layer AI agents actually need: DataBahn raises $40m to sell it

The glamorous part of AI is the models. The expensive, unglamorous part is getting them the right data. A startup just raised $40 million betting that job is the next big enterprise layer. DataBahn, a Texas company founded in 2023, has closed a $40 mil…

Oracle put its cloud rival’s AI inside its business apps, and the stock jumped 8%
Oracle put its cloud rival’s AI inside its business apps, and the stock jumped 8%

Oracle has just put its cloud rival’s AI at the heart of the software its customers run their businesses on. Investors cheered. The company said on Thursday it is expanding its Google Cloud partnership to bring Gemini into Oracle’s enterprise applicati…

Intel is handing its Atom chip tech to a startup run by the CEO’s longtime partner
Intel is handing its Atom chip tech to a startup run by the CEO’s longtime partner

Intel is quietly handing one of its crown jewels to a tiny, stealthy startup. And that startup is run by a longtime business partner of Intel’s own chief executive. The chipmaker is giving RosaicLabs access to its Atom processor technology, according t…

Amazon is winding down most of its Nova AI models to bet on one frontier model
Amazon is winding down most of its Nova AI models to bet on one frontier model

Amazon is winding down most of its flagship Nova AI models. It is betting what remains on a single, bigger effort to build one genuinely competitive foundation model. The move gives shape to a retreat that until now looked mostly like closed offices an…

Amazon spent $1.8m on a Claude job that failed, and it sells the fix
Amazon spent $1.8m on a Claude job that failed, and it sells the fix

Amazon has found that artificial intelligence can turn a trivial mistake into a seven-figure one. The company’s own internal metrics show projects running wildly over budget, including one that burned $1.8m before anyone noticed. Senior engineers calle…

Google’s new AI can now walk a humanoid across the room and tidy up, feet to fingertips
Google’s new AI can now walk a humanoid across the room and tidy up, feet to fingertips

Google DeepMind wants one AI brain to run every robot, and it just taught that brain to use its whole body. It has released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of models that can control a humanoid from its feet to its fingertips. The system can also coordinat…

Scale AI hired a cloud salesman as CEO. That tells you where it’s going.
Scale AI hired a cloud salesman as CEO. That tells you where it’s going.

A year after its founder left for Meta, Scale AI has a new boss. The choice says a lot about where the company is heading. It has named Francis deSouza, a veteran enterprise-cloud executive, as chief executive. deSouza starts on 10 August, Scale announ…