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A $1 million loan helped a Chicago IT firm grow past a $2 million revenue plateau. Owners who feel stuck may want to look at how the money is structured.
Read more: A $1 Million Loan Helped a Chicago IT Firm Break Through Its Growth WallOutSolve, a firm that helps employers follow workplace laws, bought AI company Legets to catch rule changes faster. Here is what it means for businesses with staff.
Read more: HR compliance firm OutSolve buys AI company Legets to track law changesGitHub Copilot now offers the GPT-6.1 Terra model, but not everyone gets it at once. Your plan, rollout stage and company admin all play a part.
Read more: New GPT-6.1 Terra model arrives in GitHub Copilot, with limitsAnthropic's founders say trust holds their seven-person team together. Their S-1 filing shows they will also control half of all shareholder votes.
Read more: Anthropic's seven cofounders say trust keeps the company togetherZankore, an Nvidia-backed Indonesian firm, is offering a $3.1 billion loan to lenders, a sign of how fast Asia's AI computing supply is growing.
Read more: Nvidia-backed Indonesian firm seeks $3.1 billion loan for AI computingGeneral Compute raised $100 million and is now valued at $800 million, a sign that demand for AI computing is holding up even as some investors worry.
Read more: AI computing startup raises $100 million while rivals fret about a bustPocket Prep's new AI tutor is free for all users and nudges you to work out answers yourself, a method it says helps knowledge last past test day.
Read more: Pocket Prep adds a free AI tutor that won't hand you the answersZeplyn launched an AI tool that handles wealth firms' onboarding and account setup, with a named person approving key steps. Here is what that means for clients.
Read more: AI tool now runs wealth firms' paperwork, from onboarding to account setupAnthropic filed to go public Monday, just as data centers become a hot campaign issue that could bring new limits on AI companies and raise costs.
Read more: Anthropic's stock market debut lands in a tense political yearAnthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, bought a one-person drug startup, a sign that AI firms want a bigger role in finding new medicines.
Read more: Anthropic buys a one-person startup working on muscular dystrophy drugsIndigenius AI launched Agentic Announcer, a voice agent that phones customers in seven languages, and people who get the calls can ask it to stop.
Read more: Nigerian company launches AI that phones your customers for youWealthsimple, a Toronto money app, agreed to raise up to C$425 million at a C$13.8 billion value. That may mean more choice for people who invest or bank by phone.
Read more: Wealthsimple, a Canadian money app, is now valued at $9.8 billionA report says OpenAI plans to buy Google's AI chips, which could give it more options beyond Nvidia and may ease costs behind the AI tools people use.
Read more: OpenAI plans to buy Google's AI chips, a source saysVivo's X500, X500 Pro and X500 Pro Max are going global with batteries up to 8,000 mAh and a 200MP zoom camera, but prices are not yet announced.
Read more: Vivo's new X500 phones go global with huge batteries and big camerasFinancial Cents, a tool accounting firms use to run their work, now connects to Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. Clients may want to know how their data is handled.
Read more: Accounting firms can now ask AI chatbots about their client dataRobinhood's crypto revenue fell 55%, but the company is betting on banking, text-style payments and AI trading agents to keep customers' money in its app.
Read more: Robinhood wants to be your bank, not just your trading appInfisical raised $40 million to help companies let AI agents work without ever seeing real passwords, a risk for any business that connects AI to its accounts.
Read more: Infisical raises $40M to keep AI agents away from company passwordsMeta's huge share sale and a boom in AI deals are paying off for Goldman Sachs, and stock owners may see bigger swings as earnings arrive.
Read more: Meta's huge share sale and AI deals pay off big for Goldman SachsRetell, a company whose AI answers business phone calls, says it handles 100 million calls a month, and OpenAI says its newest model scored best on Retell's test.
Read more: Phone-answering AI company Retell now handles 100 million calls a monthOracle and OpenAI announced a free-to-start AI bundle for small businesses with $12,000 in yearly cloud credits, but key details on cost and timing are still missing.
Read more: Oracle and OpenAI offer small businesses $12,000 in yearly cloud creditsMicrosoft Project Professional 2024 for Windows costs $49.97 for a lifetime license through Nov. 1, but it covers only one PC.
Read more: Microsoft Project for Windows is $49.97 for a lifetime licenseNew SEC filings show venture firms lining up billions for new funds, with AI and specialty focus drawing the most money. Here is what that signals.
Read more: Venture firms are filing to raise billions in new fundsBloomberg reports Apple will launch a second MacBook Neo in the first half of 2027, likely with a newer chip and more memory than today's $699 model.
Read more: Apple's cheaper MacBook Neo is getting a faster sequel in early 2027Rohit Patel, a former AI director at Meta, has started a new company aimed at taking on Microsoft and Google. For you, more rivals could mean more choice.
Read more: Former Meta AI director Rohit Patel starts a rival to Microsoft and Google
