Your next pipeline miss may start in AI Search
Your next pipeline miss may start in AI Search

Across the B2B SaaS teams I work with, a pattern is starting to repeat. Pipeline feels less predictable. Sales cycles stretch. Conversion conversations require more explanation than before. At the same time, traffic often looks stable – sometimes even …

Decart raises $300M to put a real-time world model in front of Amazon’s chips
Decart raises $300M to put a real-time world model in front of Amazon’s chips

Radical Ventures led the round, with Nvidia, Sequoia, Benchmark, Adobe, and Toyota alongside. Andrej Karpathy, Michael Eisner, and the Nintendo family are angels. Total raised is now over $450m. Decart, the AI research lab building real-time video and …

The US is building a 4,000-acre AI hub in the Philippines, and the sovereignty questions are already piling up
The US is building a 4,000-acre AI hub in the Philippines, and the sovereignty questions are already piling up

  The United States and the Philippines are moving “very, very quickly” on a planned 4,000-acre artificial intelligence and supply chain hub in New Clark City, north of Manila, according to Jacob Helberg, the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affai…

Dust raises $40M Series B to build the “multiplayer” operating system for enterprise AI

Agentic AI company Dust today announced a $40 million Series B led by Abstract and Sequoia, with participation from Snowflake and Datadog. With this round, Dust has raised over $60 million in total fu…

Google I/O 2026: everything announced so far, from Gemini Intelligence to the death of the Chromebook
Google I/O 2026: everything announced so far, from Gemini Intelligence to the death of the Chromebook

Google I/O 2026 begins on Monday at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, and the company has already shown much of its hand. The two-day developer conference, which runs 19–20 May with a keynote at 10 a.m. PT, is expected to formali…

Experts are worried that smarter AI gets, the dumber we might become

As AI turns intelligence into an on-demand service, experts warn that instant answers could weaken the curiosity, scrutiny, and source-checking habits that make human thinking valuable.

Pope Leo XIV calls AI-directed warfare a “spiral of annihilation” in historic La Sapienza address
Pope Leo XIV calls AI-directed warfare a “spiral of annihilation” in historic La Sapienza address

  Pope Leo XIV used a historic visit to Europe’s largest university to denounce the growing role of artificial intelligence in warfare, warning that investments in AI-directed weaponry are driving the world toward what he called a “spiral of annihilati…

How Melbourne’s AI and Data Center Flywheel Is Accelerating Research Innovation
How Melbourne’s AI and Data Center Flywheel Is Accelerating Research Innovation

This sponsored article is brought to you by Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB) supported by Business Events Australia.Melbourne’s reputation as a global events city, from the Australian Open tennis and Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix to hosting NFL reg…

CBA names AI researcher Professor Mary-Anne Williams as Chief AI Scientist
CBA names AI researcher Professor Mary-Anne Williams as Chief AI Scientist

The Sydney-based AAAI Fellow joins the UNSW Business AI Lab to lead a team of Distinguished AI Scientists, in the latest step of Commonwealth Bank’s frontier-AI build-out. Commonwealth Bank of Australia appointed Professor Mary-Anne Williams as its fir…

Former Vercel executive says voice agents will be won on infrastructure, not models [Sponsored]

UK voice AI startup SLNG says the voice labs that have dominated the market have been systematically overcharging enterprises — and that the industry is heading for a price correction.”The market has …