Bill.com (NYSE:BILL) provides cloud-based financial automation for SMBs, processing approximately $89 billion in quarterly payment volume. The company recently launched BILL AI Agents to enable touchless B2B transactions and serves nearly 500,000 businesses through partnerships with NetSuite, Paychex, and major accounting software providers. Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) dominates small business software through QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Credit Karma. With $19.43 billion in trailing twelve-month revenue, Intuit operates at massive scale and maintains a 21.2% profit margin.
Meanwhile, small teams are shipping products that would have required 100-person companies two years ago. The gap between the AGI debaters and the builders (those who are developing AGI systems) isn't philosophical-it's economic. While everyone waits for perfect AI, builders are dominating markets with today's "broken" tools, those that are functioning, albeit with some quirks, that will be worked out as the technology evolves. They aren't betting on future breakthroughs, they're betting on momentum.
Three years into the AI revolution, enterprises are grappling with an interesting paradox. Despite racing to adopt AI, most organizations remain trapped in pilot purgatory. The disconnect isn't technological; it's organizational and cultural. AI is a force multiplier. In organizations with clear domain ownership, AI augments the organization within well-defined boundaries, enabling semi-autonomous decisions safely. If your team is organized and works well together, AI acts as a turbo-boost, propelling projects to completion. The same is true in reverse for the more traditional bureaucratic "dysfunctional" organizations; AI will amplify the dysfunction.
Recently news outlets reported that layoff announcements have reached pandemic levels, which is highly concerning, but certainly not unforeseen. At the beginning of 2025, the World Economic Forum reported that 41% of organizations were planning to trim their workforces in the face of rapidly advancing AI. In the second half of the year, six in 10 business leaders were planning headcount reductions.
IT service was built to bring structure to chaos. But for many organizations today, it's become a source of it. The ticket queues keep growing. Processes feel rigid. And employees often feel frustrated by systems that seem stuck a decade behind. The numbers reflect this pain, with 40% of organizations either replacing or re-implementing their IT service tools in 2025. This is a clear sign that the model is cracking and needs to be reimagined.
Anthropic has distinguished itself from competitors by staying laser-focused on its enterprise customers with offerings catered to make working professionals' lives easier. The Skills feature, launched in October, aimed to do just that, and now it has received an upgrade, making it easier for organizations to take advantage. With the Skills feature, users can provide Claude with a set of instructions, including resources like brand guidelines, so that the chatbot can reference them when performing specialized tasks autonomously.
Every year since 2010, I've posted an article about what trend I expect to dominate the next twelve months. Throughout the 2010s, these forecasts usually focused on emerging technologies or new currents in management thinking. But around 2020, that began to shift. The annual trends increasingly centered on how we cope with change rather than the change itself. Last year my trend was "The Coming Realignment."
"AI is reshaping the fabric of DevSecOps in telecommunications," the report reads. "Telcos are under intense pressure to modernize network infrastructure and offer profitable digital services. They're expected to transform into software-driven technology companies, yet still ensure security, reliability, and customer trust as they adopt AI and work to accelerate innovation. This balancing act - between speed, security, and new skill sets - is defining a pivotal moment for the next era of DevSecOps in telecommunications."
Following a successful prototype, Microsoft will be delivering a new artificial intelligence tool to the U.S. government that uses historic hydrology data to help a diverse set of users understand and predict trends in Earth's waters. The final version of Microsoft and NASA's Earth Copilot is set to be deployed as a multi-AI agent software that can distill complex data on the planet's water patterns to observe current and future changes.
The talks, first reported by The Information and subsequently confirmed by multiple sources, are said to be at an early and fluid stage. News of the potential deal pushed Amazon shares up around 0.6 per cent, reflecting investor optimism around the deepening relationship between the world's largest cloud provider and one of the most influential AI developers. As part of the proposed investment, OpenAI is expected to increase its use of Amazon's Trainium AI accelerator chips,
Big AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic like to talk about their bold quest for AGI, or artificial general intelligence. The definition of that grail has proved to be somewhat flexible, but in general it refers to AI systems that are as smart as human beings at a wide array of tasks. AI companies have used this "quest" narrative to win investment, fascinate the tech press, and charm policymakers.
That job description you're reading might not mention AI, but an employer will likely still expect you to know how to use it. A new snapshot of job listings from career platform Ladders showed that, while the number of AI roles listed on the site has tripled since 2021, the share of postings mentioning AI has decreased. It's an indication that more employers are viewing technology as an everyday skillratherthan as a differentiator, Marc Cenedella, founder and CEO of Ladders, told Business Insider.
Boring people don't listen. They tell their own stories, over and over, and never make any attempt to engage in our story, our lives. And so we avoid them. AI, on the other hand, is a superb listener. So much so that people, particularly teens, are turning to chatbots for companionship. But in doing so, do we run the risk of all becoming the same kind of person, wanting the same kinds of friendships, with the same kinds of interactions? In a word, boring.
It's dull as hell. I don't believe it; it takes me out of the immersion. People are saying it helps the immersion because it's reactive. It takes me out of the experience because I just hear something that doesn't sound like a human being in jeopardy, or in combat, or excitement, or whatever emotion you're supposed to be aiming for,
In a pair of videos and an accompanying chart, top OpenAI executives made the case that the startup's biggest risk might be not spending enough on securing future compute, even though the company has already committed roughly $1.4 trillion on data center projects over the next eight years and is, according to CEO Sam Altman, five years away from profitability.
We began using GenAI in 2021 to speed up corporate training rollouts, and later expanded into AI-enabled translations to support global teams faster and more accurately. Today, our Instructional Designers use AI to build adaptive courses and unstructured learning experiences that mirror how people learn on the job across sectors such as manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, finance, energy, IT, and the not-for-profit space.
Magnificent Seven stocks have been some of the most successful growth stocks and make up a large portion of the S&P 500. However, all of those same stocks have valuations above $1 trillion, which makes it harder for those same stocks to double, triple, or 10x from current levels. That's why some investors are seeking smaller growth stocks that are posting impressive revenue growth. These stocks have the potential to outperform the Magnificent Seven stocks
Enterprise IT execs know well the dangers of relying too much on third-parties, how automated decision systems need to always have a human in the loop, and the dangers of telling customers too much/too little when policy violations require an account shutdown. But a saga that played out Tuesday between Anthropic and the CEO of a Swiss cybersecurity company brings it all into a new and disturbing context.
In October, a song called "I Run" materialized on TikTok, an unrepentant earworm of an EDM track that seemingly commandeered everyone's For You Page. Users fell hard and fast with some even crowning it the "song of the year" in between pleas for its release on streaming platforms. The production, tight and unrelenting, received a lauded boost from siren-like vocals that fans insisted belonged to British R&B songstress Jorja Smith. Before long, the song climbed to #11 on Spotify's U.S. chart.
Gemini 3 Flash, "latest model with frontier intelligence built for speed," "brings the incredible reasoning of our Gemini 3 model at the speed you expect of Search," Google wrote. Google added: Gemini 3 Flash's strong performance in reasoning, tool use and multimodal capabilities enable AI Mode to tackle your most complicated questions with greater precision - without compromising speed. With this upgrade, AI Mode becomes an all-around more powerful tool.
Google's latest addition to its NotebookLM artificial intelligence research platform is a feature called Data Tables. The tool can collect and synthesize information across multiple sources into a chart that can be exported to Google Sheets. All Pro and Ultra users will have access to the feature today, and Data Tables will roll out to all users over the coming weeks.
Alphabet is best known for Google, which is the most dominant search engine on the planet. Google commands an approximate 90% market share in search, in large part due to the distribution advantages it has. The company owns both the world's leading web browser in Chrome and the No. 1 smartphone operating system in Android. Alphabet also has a search revenue-sharing deal with Apple to be the default search on all its devices.
Gemini will scan the video's visuals and audio for Google's proprietary watermark called SynthID. The response will be more than a yes or no, Google says. Gemini will point out specific times when the watermark appears in the video or audio. The company rolled out this capability for images in November, also limited to images made or edited with Google AI.
It's been a week since we announced Divinity, our next RPG, and a lot has become lost in translation. Larian's DNA is agency. Everything we work towards is to the benefit of our teams, games, and players. A better work day, and a better game. Our successes come from empowering people to work in their own way and bring the best out of their skill & craft, so that we can make the best RPGs we can possible make.
The service integrates easily with messaging platforms like WhatsApp and WeChat and claims that users can tweak up to 50 settings-including the ability to adjust things like cheekbone size and eye position-to help mimic the face they are impersonating. But while Haotian is a robust and versatile platform, researchers and WIRED's own analysis have found that the service has been marketing to so-called "pig butchering" scammers and those running online fraud operations in Southeast Asia.
This year, one of the better performers among the Magnificent 7 had been Meta Platforms Inc. ( NASDAQ: META). But its third-quarter earnings report raised investor concerns about the company's massive capital spending on artificial intelligence initiatives. In addition, Meta says it plans to make significant cuts to the budget of its Reality Labs metaverse division in the coming year. The stock is down 13.6% since the quarterly report was released.
As AI chat interfaces become more popular, users increasingly rely on AI outputs to make decisions. Without explanations, AI systems are black boxes. Explaining to people how an AI system has reached a particular output helps users form accurate mental models, prevents the spread of misinformation, and helps users decide whether to trust an AI output. However, the explanations currently offered by large language models (LLMs) are often inaccurate, hidden, or confusing.
Tesla Inc.'s ( NASDAQ: TSLA) share price is up 4.5% from a week ago. A robotaxi without a safety monitor is being tested in Austin, Texas, and Elon Musk announced that the AI chatbot Grok will be integrated into Tesla vehicles very soon. But California has threatened to suspend Tesla's license to sell and make cars in the state. The stock is 47.7% higher than six months ago, outperforming the S&P 500 in that time.
Simply upload a video and ask something like, 'Was this generated using Google AI?' Gemini will scan for the imperceptible SynthID watermark across both the audio and visual tracks and use its own reasoning to return a response that gives you context and specifies which segments contain elements generated using Google AI.
A proposed class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Elizabeth Lyon, an author from Oregon, claims that Adobe used pirated versions of numerous books-including her own-to train the company's SlimLM program. Adobe describes SlimLM as a small language model series that can be "optimized for document assistance tasks on mobile devices." It states that SlimLM was pre-trained on SlimPajama-627B, a "deduplicated, multi-corpora, open-source dataset" released by Cerebras in June of 2023.
How many times have we heard executives tout AI as a thought partner, a collaborator, a productivity accelerator? Or as a catalyst for upskilling and repurposing people? And yet, we're already seeing evidence of this trend. In 2025 alone, UPS cut 48,000, Amazon eliminated 14,000 jobs, and Verizon announced plans to lay off 15,000 employees. The reason for all these cuts? While restructuring, the need for different skills, and business optimization are all frequently cited, increasingly AI is as well.
Last week, Google DeepMind made the Interactions API available as a public beta. The new API represents a fundamental change in how developers work with AI models: from stateless to a stateful architecture with server-side context management. With this move, Google is following the path that OpenAI embarked on in March 2025 with its Responses API. Over the past two years, developers have been working with generative AI via a so-called 'completion' model.
