What Meta’s Acquisition Of Chinese-Founded AI Startup Means For Advertisers by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, December 30, 2025 Meta Platforms’ AI power play led it to purchase a Singapore-based startup specializing in autonomous AI agents. The deal to acquire Manus, valued at more than $2 billion, will accelerate not only the company’s conversational platforms … Continue reading What Meta’s Acquisition Of Chinese-Founded AI Startup Means To Advertisers
November 30, 2025 This startup hired a sci-fi novelist to give its AI companions a soul
Doti AI technology boosts how tools find and use internal knowledge—and that could change how marketers work across teams. Constantine von Hoffman on November 13, 2025 Salesforce has acquired Israeli startup Doti AI in a deal reportedly worth around $ 100 million, betting big on enterprise search tech that’s barely out of stealth mode. … Continue reading Salesforce buys AI startup to boost its enterprise search abilities
September 09, 2025 Why your startup needs a fractional leader BY Yakov Filippenko Every founder wants top-tier talent. But when your company is young, two obstacles loom. The first one is that no one knows you. The second one is that, likely, you can’t afford a full-time senior hire. The irony is that this is when … Continue reading Why your startup needs a fractional leader
July 28, 2025 This AI startup lets you ask data questions in plain English—and gets you answers in seconds Businesses have spent the past decade or more amassing vast amounts of data on customers, sales, and nearly everything else measurable. Yet everyday employees—and even C-suite leaders—often struggle to work directly with these datasets, which typically … Continue reading This AI startup lets you ask data questions in plain English—and gets you answers in seconds
July 05, 2025 5 things every startup founder needs to know after the idea BY Next Big Idea Club Julia Austin has spent her career as a startup operator, executive coach, educator, investor, and board member. She is on the faculty at Harvard Business School and is faculty cochair of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. … Continue reading 5 things every startup founder needs to know after the idea
Why Meta Is Willing To Invest $10B In An AI Startup by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, June 9, 2025 Securing essential data for AI training models, accelerating development, supporting partnerships, gaining a competitive edge and improving performance are just some of the reasons that Meta might want to invest $10 billion in a 2016 … Continue reading Why Meta Is Willing To Invest $10B In An AI Startup
May 13, 2025 Apple teams up with a brain-computer startup to turn thoughts into device control BY Jessica Bursztynsky Apple is collaborating with brain-computer interface company Synchron to develop technology that lets users control devices using neural signals. Still in the early stages, the technology could significantly expand accessibility for users who are unable to … Continue reading Apple partners with a brain-computer startup to turn thoughts into device control
January 11, 2025 Meet the startup pioneering AI-to-AI commerce—and why it matters Nevermined’s solution to machine-driven transactions could mark the first self-sustaining micro-economy without human participation. BY Sam Becker AI using AI to pay for AI? It could soon become a reality. As AI systems become more ubiquitous, those systems will further interact with other AI … Continue reading Meet the startup pioneering AI-to-AI commerce—and why it matters
Startup Shakes Up Data Black Box In AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, December 26, 2024 Ad agencies, publishers and brands have quietly complained that artificial intelligence (AI) generated search can bury content, but several industry veterans have developed tech that tracks query results to determine website visibility. Klaus-M Schremser, Josef … Continue reading Startup Shakes Up Data Black Box In AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT
