Screen time showdown: Meta agrees to an $18 billion settlement with 47 states, capping teen Instagram use at two hours daily, adding night blocks, and funding teen well-being—marking the largest U.S. consumer protection payout outside tobacco cases.
Compute coup: Anthropic inks a $45B, six-year deal with British startup Nscale to rent AI compute powered by Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips, aiming to launch in late 2027 and compete with giants like OpenAI and Google.
SaaSpocalypse? Not so fast: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls AI fears 'nonsense' as shares surge 12% post-earnings. With 9 of 10 top AI firms using Salesforce, its CRM remains essential, powering AI with 435% spending growth year-over-year.
Finance Ditches Excel: AI Agents Double Productivity in 2026
By 2026, finance chiefs at firms like Gusto and Tide have ditched Excel and legacy tools for AI-powered agentic workflows, doubling productivity and kicking off a finance ops revolution.
Aug 5
Azure Rockets Past $100B, But Margin Squeeze Worries Investors
Microsoft Azure has rocketed past $100 billion in annual revenue—fueling record cloud earnings—but investors are sweating as massive AI infrastructure spending squeezes margins.
Aug 9
AI Debt Spiral: Oracle, Nvidia Face Credit Crunch Fears
A $2 trillion AI infrastructure binge is pushing Oracle, Nvidia, and the entire hyperscaler ecosystem to the brink of a credit crunch as debt-fueled expansion collides with supply and power bottlenecks.
Jul 29The Accountant’s Guide to Agentic ROI
Paul Lodder of Dext highlights agentic AI's ROI relies on clean data, explainability, SLM accuracy, and evolving accountant roles as assurance officer
Farmers are buying precision tech but cost still stalls deals
CNH’s Eric Shuman notes 89% of North American farmers use precision tech; cost (56%) and ROI concerns (36%) limit further adoption.
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Autonomous tractors, AI combines, precision seeders, and drones cut costs and boost yields; JumboBee and Atlantic Project Cargo aid parts and logistic
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