By Medha Agarwal For more than a decade, customers spent their software budget procuring vertical SaaS products. ACVs, or annual contract values, were modest, customer acquisition cost had to stay below a ceiling, and the resulting go-to-market playbook was product-led growth, SDR-led and content-driven. With AI, many products are no longer SaaS but usage and…
Agentic AI is now a core part of the engineering process, driving massive execution leverage and helping us generate more code than ever before. Yet, a difficult question I’ve increasingly heard from business leaders is: if we’re shipping code faster than ever, why aren’t our products improving at the same rate? The reason is that…
These newer social apps offer alternatives to Big Tech’s feeds, focusing on interests, creativity, and community. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
Augment Code Computing Inc., an artificial intelligence agent platform provider, Thursday announced the launch of Cosmos, a service it says is designed to push beyond the era of individual AI coding assistants and into a more coordinated model for engineering teams. In an interview with SiliconANGLE, Vice President of Engineering Vinay Perneti said that as AI…
May set the stage for a new phase for the startup market. While Anthropic’s $50 billion raise — the second-largest startup funding deal on record — pushed global startup investment to one of the highest monthly totals of all time, Cerebras Systems’ successful IPO previews a potential blockbuster infusion of liquidity back into the private…
Every new AI agent your team deploys starts from scratch: no memory of how the business works, where data lives, or what rules apply. And as agentic coding tools spin up applications faster than anyone can govern them, each one risks becoming another silo outside your data layer entirely. Microsoft is addressing both problems directly…
The British fintech has built a waitlist of about 450,000 users in India as it prepares for a broader launch. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
As artificial intelligence agents begin to proliferate across information technology infrastructure, IT leaders are moving away from asking, “How do we monitor every alert?” to “How do we design infrastructure that can solve its own problems?” Operations teams can now deploy agents to triage alerts, correlate operational data and automate certain remediation steps without constant…
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Anthropic today released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship model that ships at the same price as its predecessor, alongside a dramatically cheaper “fast mode” tier and a new feature that lets the model spawn hundreds of parallel subagents for codebase-scale work. The model is available immediately across Anthropic’s surfaces — claude.ai, Claude…