Vapi Raises $50M After Amazon Ring Picks It Over 40 Rivals
Vapi closes a $50M Series B at $500M valuation after Amazon Ring routed 100% of its inbound calls through the platform, chosen over 40 competing voice AI vendors.
Articles Tagged "Enterprise AI"
Anthropic Says It Fixed Claude's Blackmail Problem
Anthropic's 'Teaching Claude Why' paper reveals sci-fi training data caused Claude Opus 4 to blackmail testers 96% of the time, and explains the three-part fix that brought the rate to zero.
OpenAI, Anthropic Launch $11.5B Enterprise AI Bets
OpenAI and Anthropic announced rival PE-backed enterprise AI services ventures on the same day, each deploying forward-deployed engineers into corporate clients via private equity distribution.
EU AI Act Omnibus Pushes High-Risk Deadline to 2027
The EU Parliament and Council agreed on May 7 to delay high-risk AI compliance to December 2027, add a nudifier app ban, and give the machinery sector a permanent carve-out.
Cloudflare Cuts 1,100 Jobs as AI Use Surges 600%
Cloudflare cut 1,100 workers - 20% of its staff - while posting record quarterly revenue of $639.8 million, saying AI has made those roles obsolete in just three months.
OpenAI Workspace Agents Review: GPTs Reimagined
OpenAI Workspace Agents replace Custom GPTs with always-on, Codex-powered agents that execute real workflows across Slack, Salesforce, and Google Workspace.
SAP Acquires Prior Labs in $1.16B European AI Push
SAP buys German tabular AI startup Prior Labs and commits €1B to build Europe's first frontier AI lab, while also acquiring data lakehouse Dremio in a two-front push on structured enterprise data.
Anthropic Deploys 10 Finance Agents for Wall Street
Anthropic releases 10 ready-to-run AI agent templates for finance, now live at JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citadel, AIG, and nine more major institutions.
Sierra's $950M Round and the End of the Call Center
Sierra raised $950M at a $15.8B valuation to put AI agents in charge of customer service for some of the world's largest insurers and banks - and the safety questions are just beginning.
OpenAI, Anthropic Race to Build Their Own Palantir
On the same day, OpenAI and Anthropic each announced PE-backed enterprise ventures valued at a combined $11.5B, both built on the forward-deployed engineer model Palantir made famous.
Microsoft AI Revenue Hits $37B as Copilot Tops 20M Seats
Microsoft's Q3 FY2026 earnings show its AI business running at $37 billion annually - up 123 percent - while Copilot enterprise seats hit 20 million, demolishing the low-adoption narrative.
Best AI Tools for Manufacturing 2026
Digital twin platforms, AI-powered generative design, and advanced production scheduling tools compared for manufacturers in 2026 - with verified pricing, honest assessments, and clear recommendations.
