Airbnb Hires Former Meta AI Leader as CTO
Airbnb hired a onetime Meta Platforms AI leader, Ahmad Al-Dahle, as Chief Technology Officer, as the travel bookings firm grapples with integrating AI features into its operations. Al-Dahle’s role ...
Belgian cybersecurity startup becomes unicorn
Belgian cybersecurity startup Aikido Security has closed a $60 million Series B funding round at a $1 billion valuation, marking a rare unicorn milestone for a European security company and highlighti...
AI changed the tools, now it’s changing the work
Generative and agentic AI has done more to reshape markets in two years than the entire previous decade of digital transformation. Companies are rethinking not just their processes, but their very bus...
Musk Predicts AI Will Lead to Abundance When AGI Arrives
Elon Musk says AI will eventually become so advanced that it will lead to worldwide abundance.
The multibillionaire businessman made these remarks last week on the podcast Moonshots With Pe...
Slackbot now has agentic capabilities thanks to Anthropic
Salesforce has released an updated Slackbot, powered by Anthropic’s Claude model, for Business+ and Enterprise+ Slack subscribers to organize communications and locate information within Slack and o...
ElevenLabs rockets to $330 million in annual revenue
ElevenLabs, an AI voice-generation startup, crossed $330 million in annual recurring revenue. CEO Mati Staniszewski reported the figure in a Bloomberg interview.
We closed 2025 at over $330M ARR – ...
Confusion mounts as China issues vague rules on Nvidia H200 imports
The Chinese government on January 13 instructed certain technology companies to purchase Nvidia’s H200 AI chips only under special circumstances, such as university research, according to a report b...
