Anthropic now has more business customers than OpenAI, according to Ramp data
For the first time, Anthropic has more verified business customers than OpenAI, according to this month’s AI Index from the fintech firm Ramp.
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
“These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.””
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Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life
Poppy is an AI-powered app that connects your calendar, email, messages, and other services to surface reminders, suggestions, and tasks based on what’s happening in your life.
Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves
Adaption’s new AutoScientist tool is designed to let models adapt to specific capabilities quickly through an automated approach to conventional fine-tuning.
5 Tax Strategies Smart Founders Use to Protect Their Profits
From sales tax compliance to entity structure and year-end planning, these common tax mistakes can quietly drain profits and create costly problems for growing businesses.
The 5-Step Sales Process That Consistently Converts Prospects Into Clients
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How Working for an NBA Team Taught Me 3 of the Most Important Leadership Lessons of My Career
Working for an NBA team taught me discipline and how to perform under pressure. When I became a CEO, I put those lessons to work.
AI Now Decides Which Brands Consumers See First — Is Yours One of Them?
AI is becoming the new place where people discover and compare products, so businesses need to optimize for AI-driven decisions before customers ever reach the checkout page.
How to Build Brand Authenticity the Right Way — and Ensure Customers Feel It at Every Touchpoint
Brand authenticity is rarely shaped by what a company says about itself. It’s built through the consistency of what people encounter online, in physical spaces and at every point in between.
Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea
There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medication. ACCESS creates that mechanism for the first time.