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Wall Street is finally starting to buy ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott’s story as the company beats Q2 earnings forecasts

ServiceNow beat Q2 Wall Street consensus estimates and raised revenue forecasts. The company's shares now show signs of escaping the 'SaaSpocalypse'.

23.07.2026 3

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Jeremy Kahn

OpenAI’s rogue hacking incident was a warning shot. Will it be a wake-up call to finally create AI safety regulation?

AI policy experts and safety researchers call the AI agents' attack on Hugging Face "a wake up call."

22.07.2026 0

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Exclusive: Arrakis, betting AI’s biggest payoff is in industrial sectors not office work, emerges from stealth with $38 million in venture funding

The company wants to bring agentic AI to aerospace, energy, logistics, and manufacturing.

22.07.2026 4

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OpenAI says its AI models secretly broke out of a secure test environment and hacked into AI company Hugging Face in order to cheat on an evaluation

The first-of-its-kind incident involved OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and another unreleased model

21.07.2026 4

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A FINRA for AI? The idea from Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is gaining momentum. But is it any good?

The self-regulatory body for financial brokerages has been plagued by concerns about conflict of interest, raising questions about whether it's the...

21.07.2026 9

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The secrets of an unheralded AI success story

Logistics company C.H. Robinson has seen a 45% productivity gain from deploying AI agents. Its CEO Dave Bozeman explains how he's found ROI from AI.

14.07.2026 1

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Exclusive: Google’s former ‘click fraud czar’ emerges from stealth with an on-device AI shield against AI-powered phishing, deepfakes, and other scams

Shuman Ghosemajumder's new startup Reken uses an on-device 'private core' to analyze communications, automatically screening them for phishing and...

13.07.2026 8

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Exclusive: Fleek, an online marketplace connecting vintage clothing wholesalers and retailers, raises $25 million in new funding

Fleek has built a computer vision model to help suppliers sort, grade, and price vintage clothing

08.07.2026 10

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Nomagic’s new AI lab headed by former Google DeepMind researcher claims success in early deployment of ‘AI brain’ for warehouse robots

Nomagic says the company's new 'vision-language-action' model cut robot errors requiring human intervention in half at logistics customers.

08.07.2026 10

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp is wrong about the threat Anthropic and OpenAI pose to most enterprises. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t have something to lose

The Palantir CEO says Anthropic and OpenAI deliver no value and 'steal alpha' from customers. Is he right?

07.07.2026 10

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Anthropic’s Fable model is back. But U.S. AI policy is still a mess

The U.S. government has lifted export controls on Fable and Mythos. But there's still no clarity about the rules that will govern future AI model...

02.07.2026 10

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Where A.I. jobs are exploding in number (it’s not in Silicon Valley)

Two reports indicate big disparities in A.I. adoption across geography and sector.

30.06.2026 8

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The problem with the EU’s A.I. strategy

The risk-based approach the bloc wants to use sounds reasonable, but will it work in practice?

30.06.2026 10

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A.I. and tackling the risk of “digital redlining”

As more and more insurers rely on A.I.-driven models, they face a critical issue on applying fair coverage.

30.06.2026 10

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A.I. is unstoppable. And A.I. is struggling.

Forecasts predict an unstoppable automation wave, but firms are stumbling in efforts to adopt A.I.

30.06.2026 10

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The ultimate guide to the state of today’s A.I.

A preview of Fortune's special package on artificial intelligence and a roundup of the week's A.I. news

30.06.2026 10

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Defections from Google DeepMind prompt questions about Alphabet’s efforts to stay at the forefront of AI

With Google's AI models losing leaderboard places and its pace of model releases lagging, some are questioning if the internet giant can stay at AI's...

30.06.2026 10

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At the heart of Anthropic’s clashes with the U.S. government, a decision not to play by the new rules of Trump’s Washington

Most tech companies have tried to curry favor with the White House and hired 'Trump whisperers.' Anthropic has stood on principle, and suffered the...

30.06.2026 10

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Exclusive: Seltz, a startup rebuilding web search for AI agents, raises $12.5 million in seed funding

VC firms Speedinvest and Capital B led the funding round for the web search startup founded by a veteran of Amazon and Pinecone.

24.06.2026 10

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Google DeepMind unveils plan to protect itself from its own rogue AI agents

For years, AI safety research focused on 'alignment.' The Google DeepMind roadmap assumes some AI agents may go rogue, and focuses on monitoring and...

18.06.2026 10

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Decision on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models means the U.S. has a licensing regime for frontier AI—it just doesn’t want to admit it

With its decision on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable, the Trump administration has created a de facto licensing regime that throws into question the...

16.06.2026 10

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‘Fix this code’—the three little words behind the U.S. government decision that shut down Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos AI models

The Fable jailbreak was trivially easy, an independent security researcher found. But she and other experts say Fable’s value to cyber defenders...

15.06.2026 10

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A startup buying up U.K. real estate brokers and streamlining their processes with AI gets $93 million in funding to fuel expansion

Dwelly, cofounded by former Uber and Gett employees, is backed by General Catalyst, Trinity Capital

25.02.2026 30

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How one AI company is helping businesses navigate Trump’s new tariff chaos following the Supreme Court ruling

Plus a chaotic AI Impact Summit wraps up in India and Anthropic accuses Chinese rivals of using Claude's answers to train their own models

24.02.2026 20

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OpenAI partners with McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, and Capgemini to push its Frontier AI agent platform

The new alliances heap further pressure on SaaS vendors such as Salesforce, Microsoft, Workday, and ServiceNow.

23.02.2026 20

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Matt Shumer’s viral blog about AI’s looming impact on knowledge workers is based on flawed assumptions

Shumer misses key distinctions between software development and other professional tasks.

13.02.2026 20

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Exclusive: Lawhive, a startup using AI to reimagine the general practice law firm, raises $60 million in new venture capital funding

The startup offers routine legal services using human lawyers assisted by AI software.

05.02.2026 20

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Short-seller claims IonQ, the biggest quantum computing company on the stock market, failed to disclose holes in its revenue

Short-seller Wolfpack Research says IonQ misled investors about cancelled government earmarks; it also points to suspicious insider stock sales.

05.02.2026 20

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Former Cohere exec Sara Hooker has raised $50 million for her AI startup Adaption Labs—a bet on smaller, smarter models

Hooker says she wants to "eliminate prompt engineering" with AI models that intuitively adapt to varying tasks

04.02.2026 20

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Moltbook is scary—but not for the reasons so many headlines said

It is people's devil-may-care attitude to the risk of AI agents that ought to really frighten us

04.02.2026 30

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In Moltbook hysteria, former top Facebook researcher sees echoes of 2017 panic over bots building a ‘secret language’

A 2017 Facebook experiment also drew alarming headlines. But then, as now, the danger was not what it seemed.

03.02.2026 20

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Exclusive: Long-time Google DeepMind researcher David Silver leaves to found his own AI startup

Silver's new startup Ineffable Intelligence will focus on developing 'superintelligence' using the same AI methods that led to Google DeepMind...

30.01.2026 20

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ServiceNow stock falls despite earnings beat as CEO Bill McDermott tries to get investors to stop thinking of it as a SaaS company

The workflow automation giant posted strong earnings and announced an Anthropic partnership, as it tries to convince Wall Street it deserves an AI...

29.01.2026 20

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At Davos, CEOs said AI isn’t coming for jobs as fast as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks

The Anthropic CEO warns 50% of entry-level white collar jobs will be gone in five years. Other tech CEOs see that as unlikely.

28.01.2026 20

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s 20,000-word essay on how AI ‘will test’ humanity is a must-read—but more for his remedies than his warnings

Anthropic CEO calls for AI companies to steer customers away from firing workers, wealthy tech billionaires to give away their money, and government...

27.01.2026 20

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AI luminaries at Davos clash over how close human level intelligence really is

Anthropic's Dario Amodei says it's coming soon. DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and former Meta chief scientist Yann LeCun think it's a more distant...

23.01.2026 30

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At Davos, AI hype gives way to focus on ROI

The hype around generative AI capabilities is giving way to harder questions about productivity gains and bottom-line impact.

21.01.2026 50

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Last year, AI hype wowed Davos. This year, leaders are obsessing over how to use the technology at scale

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

20.01.2026 40

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Wave of defections from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s $12 billion startup Thinking Machines shows cutthroat struggle for AI talent

Thinking Machines has lost three members of its founding team to OpenAI, while another cofounder left for Meta and more employees are reportedly...

16.01.2026 50

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Exclusive: Former OpenAI policy chief creates nonprofit institute, calls for independent safety audits of frontier AI models

Former OpenAI policy head Miles Brundage debuts AVERI, an institute advocating for independent safety audits of top AI models

15.01.2026 20

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What Apple’s AI deal with Google means for the two tech giants, and for $500 billion ‘upstart’ OpenAI

The multi-year partnership validates Google's AI comeback, highlights Apple's AI struggles, and could spell trouble for OpenAI.

14.01.2026 30

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As ‘agentic commerce’ gains ground, companies shouldn’t put too much faith in ‘GEO,’ one industry insider warns

Research from AIVO Standard shows that AI models are inconsistent and unreliable in answering questions about a company's finances or governance...

14.01.2026 60

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Anthropic unveils Claude for Healthcare, expands life science features, and partners with HealthEx to let users connect medical records

Anthropic's rollout of a healthcare product for Claude comes one week after OpenAI announced some similar features for ChatGPT.

12.01.2026 20

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Exclusive: Swedish startup automating mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings raises $20 million in seed round

Endra says it can reduce the time needed to design electrical systems from months to hours.

18.12.2025 30

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U.K. startup CellVoyant debuts AI platform that could radically reduce the cost of cell-based therapies such as CAR-T immunotherapy for cancer

CellVoyant says its FateView platform can reduce the cost of producing viable cells for therapy by up to 80%

18.12.2025 30

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Exclusive: Palantir alums using AI to streamline patent filing secure $20 million in Series A venture funding

Ankar's customers, including IP teams at L'Oreal, have reported a 40% productivity boost from using the tool

17.12.2025 40

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Google researchers unlock some truths about getting AI agents to actually work

The researchers found single AI agents do better at sequential tasks, multi-agent workflows at ones that can be done in parallel

17.12.2025 40

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Highlights from Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco

From deep dives into the enterprise deployment of agents to explorations of the new geography of data centers, Brainstorm AI provided a valuable...

12.12.2025 20

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OpenAI aims to silence concerns it is falling behind in the AI race with release of new model GPT-5.2

OpenAI said its new model outperforms those from rivals Google and Anthropic across a wide range of evaluations.

11.12.2025 20

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Google DeepMind agrees to sweeping partnership with U.K. government focused on science and clean energy

The collaboration will see the AI company collaborating with the British government on a robotic lab for new materials, fusion energy, and new...

11.12.2025 20

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