Google Turns Up in the Music in AI
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OpenAI Raises Revenue, Cash Burn Outlook, Falls Short on Margins
OpenAI recently raised its outlook for revenue for the next five years, predicting it would generate about 27% more than previously forecast from sales of its ChatGPT subscriptions and other business ...
AI Financial Reporting Platform Inscope Raises $14.5 Million
Inscope raised $14.5 million in a Series A funding round to increase the adoption and the capabilities of its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered financial reporting platform designed for use by both...
First Citizens Seeks New Mergers to Cross Growth Threshold
First Citizens BancShares is looking to make acquisitions that will give it the scale needed to deal with the additional regulations that come into effect when a bank reaches $250 billion in assets, B...
Telcos Double Down on AI as 90% Report Positive Returns
Telecom operators’ relationship with artificial intelligence (AI) is now defined by results, not rhetoric. Nvidia’s 2026 State of AI in Telecommunications survey, which polled more than 1,000 indu...
Another European Country Bans Polymarket, Threatens Massive Fine
Dutch regulators have ordered crypto prediction platform Polymarket to stop operating in the Netherlands, warning it could face fines of up to €840,000 if it fails to comply.
The decision marks...
AWS Denies Report That Service Outage Was Caused by AI Coding Tool
An outage of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) service in one of the company’s two regions in China in December was caused by user error, not the company’s Kiro artificial intelligence coding tool, an ...