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Adobe's Big AI Week: Firefly, Disney, Semrush, LinkedIn

Adobe has spent two years bolting AI onto its software. This week it tried to become the AI layer underneath everything creative and marketing, in five announcements stretched across three days.

General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation

The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal’s dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.

A Tech Worker-Backed PAC Is Bringing a $5M Knife to Big Tech’s $100M Gunfight

Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.

How I built a million-view influencer with AI

She's an LA influencer time-traveling through history — and she's completely fake. Jonathan Laramy explains how he created her with AI.

Accenture stock drops 20%, buys $4.18bn of cybersecurity

Accenture had the worst day in its history on the stock market on Thursday, and the reason cuts to the heart of the AI era: investors increasingly fear that AI will hollow out the consulting business itself.

Sebastian Kurz went from Austria's youngest chancellor to building a $3 billion AI cybersecurity startup

Backed by top investors, DREAM is expanding globally with technology designed to protect nations from state-sponsored attacks.

Accenture Acquires IndX to Boost AI Manufacturing Solutions

Accenture will acquire IndX, expanding AI-powered manufacturing solutions for industrial clients through its Siemens Digital Industries partnership

Yann LeCun calls xAI a 'failure', warns of AI bubble

Yann LeCun has never been quiet about his doubts, and his latest target is one of the most valuable companies on earth.

Two Roads Consulting Scaling Toyota’s Digital Transformation

Seth Plunk from Two Roads Consulting explores how it is helping companies tackle complex technological challenges amid digitisation and rapid change

Top AI researcher leaves Google for OpenAI

This shows the limits of acqui-hires.

Bernie Sanders unveils AI "tax" plan

The U.S. government would get a 50% stake in some of America's largest companies.

Exclusive: Gradial raises $65M for agentic marketing

The startup seeks to automate operational work so marketers can focus on creativity.