What Should You Look for in an Online Payment Platform for Your Business?

This post is brought to you in paid partnership with QuickBooks QuickBooks Payments is usually one of the first names that comes up the moment you search for an online payment platform, right alongside Stripe, Square, PayPal, and half a dozen others al…

Meta AI Data Center Linked To Rare Bacteria In City’s Water System

A rare bacteria was found in a Wyoming City’s water supply and traced to wastewater coming from an under-construction Meta AI data center.

Musk says he always wanted SpaceX staff to get rich, and thousands just did
Musk says he always wanted SpaceX staff to get rich, and thousands just did

Elon Musk says SpaceX’s blockbuster listing has probably made thousands of his employees millionaires. Asked on The Sean Hannity Show about a former welder whose stock topped $1m, he said the story was far from unique. “It’s not just one welder, it’s s…

OpenAI And Anthropic Are Preparing For IPOs—Here’s How They Stack Up

OpenAI and Anthropic have both confidentially filed for historic IPOs. Discover how their valuations, revenue growth, and corporate strategies compare before they go public.

‘Love Island USA’ Season 8 Tests What People Will Pay For—Creators Should Pay Attention

Peacock screened the ‘Love Island USA’ midseason episode in 28 movie theaters across the country, proving that passionate audiences will leave the couch for the right content.

Zuckerberg confirms Meta is eyeing an AI cloud business to rent out its compute
Zuckerberg confirms Meta is eyeing an AI cloud business to rent out its compute

Mark Zuckerberg has publicly confirmed that Meta is exploring an AI cloud business. Selling access to computing power “makes sense”, he said, according to Bloomberg. The confirmation puts the CEO’s name to a plan first reported earlier this month. Meta…

Anthropic Wants You to Pay Up for Claude Fable 5

Claude subscribers must soon pay usage-based fees to access Anthropic’s best consumer AI model—a sign that the golden era of AI subscriptions is ending.

Palo Alto’s CEO says AI prices must fall 90% before the tech really takes off
Palo Alto’s CEO says AI prices must fall 90% before the tech really takes off

Palo Alto Networks chief executive Nikesh Arora says the cost of running AI needs to plunge before businesses can deploy it at scale. He told CNBC on Thursday that token prices may need to fall by as much as 90%, according to CNBC. Arora was reacting t…

How organizations view AI-native transformation through better workflows, decisions, and organizational intelligence
How organizations view AI-native transformation through better workflows, decisions, and organizational intelligence

Organizations seem eager to bring AI into the workplace. Many begin the journey by focusing on the tool or the model. VarOps, a systems-level AI advisory specializing in capability building in organizations, believes that’s the wrong place to start. Ac…

How can small businesses get paid faster?

This post is brought to you in paid partnership with QuickBooks Maria owns a small landscaping business outside Austin. It’s Friday morning, payroll is due, one of her commercial mowers needs repairs, and three crews are wrapping up projects across tow…