Oracle’s Mark Hura: your AI advantage is your data, not the model
Oracle’s Mark Hura: your AI advantage is your data, not the model

The pitch for enterprise AI usually starts with the model. Mark Hura, Oracle‘s president of global field operations, wants to flip that. He spoke on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris. The companies winning with AI, he argued, are not shopping for an A…

This AI startup pays $1.7M a year in rent so staff will work 72-hour weeks
This AI startup pays $1.7M a year in rent so staff will work 72-hour weeks

Tech loves a perk, but few go this far. Rilla, an AI startup that makes coaching software for sales teams, spends about $1.7m a year on housing stipends so staff can live near its New York office, Fortune reports. The trade-off is a 72-hour week. Emplo…

ElevenLabs’ CEO on hitting ~$600m revenue and outrunning the AI labs
ElevenLabs’ CEO on hitting ~$600m revenue and outrunning the AI labs

The ALL-IN Podcast took its live show to the Louvre this week for the RAISE Summit. It put ElevenLabs co-founder and chief executive Mati Staniszewski in the hot seat. Host Jason Calacanis opened where it stings: revenue, competition, and whether a voi…

Perplexity is quietly building an AI coding tool to rival Cursor and Claude Code
Perplexity is quietly building an AI coding tool to rival Cursor and Claude Code

Perplexity wants a piece of the AI coding boom. The San Francisco search startup has built an internal coding tool, codenamed “Teammate,” and may launch it publicly later, a person familiar with the matter told Business Insider. Its own engineers have …

Mark Cuban thinks Lovable and Replit can outlast the AI labs
Mark Cuban thinks Lovable and Replit can outlast the AI labs

At RAISE Summit in Paris on Wednesday, “Shark Tank” investor Mark Cuban made the case for AI coding tools like Lovable and Replit, Business Insider reports. They can hold their own against the big AI labs, he argued. The reason: they now bundle service…

Only 6% of UK managers think Gen Z is work-ready. 45% of Gen Z disagree
Only 6% of UK managers think Gen Z is work-ready. 45% of Gen Z disagree

Young workers and their bosses do not see the same person. Almost half of 18 to 24-year-olds, 45 per cent, believe they entered work with the skills to succeed. Just 6 per cent of UK managers agree, according to the Chartered Management Institute. The …

Your customers would rather use ChatGPT than your chatbot, Gartner finds
Your customers would rather use ChatGPT than your chatbot, Gartner finds

Businesses spent big on AI to answer their customers. The customers had other ideas. People are approximately three times more likely to use a third-party GenAI tool, such as ChatGPT, than a company’s own chatbot to sort out a service problem, accordin…

UiPath’s Dines: not hiring juniors is a mistake
UiPath’s Dines: not hiring juniors is a mistake

At the Raise summit in Paris, two enterprise leaders asked why AI agents keep stalling in pilots. Their fix starts with people, not models. Most enterprises stall. Their AI agents run in pilots and never reach production. That was the blunt diagnosis f…

SAP freezes hiring and travel to shovel cash into AI
SAP freezes hiring and travel to shovel cash into AI

Europe’s biggest software company is tightening its belt to chase artificial intelligence. SAP is freezing most hiring and pausing non-essential travel, all to free up cash for its AI push. The plan landed in an internal email to staff on Wednesday eve…

Palantir’s ‘AI sovereignty’ manifesto is a war on how AI makes money
Palantir’s ‘AI sovereignty’ manifesto is a war on how AI makes money

Palantir has a new enemy, and it is the way most of the AI industry makes money. Its nine-point manifesto tells institutions to hoard their data, own their model weights, and stop “tokenmaxxing.” It is a pitch dressed as a principle. On Tuesday, Palant…