Look for industries still running on Excel and email. Not the obvious ones - I'm talking specialty insurance, equipment leasing, commodities trading, or commercial real estate operations. Places where middle managers are drowning in spreadsheets and six-figure mistakes happen monthly.
Clay, a secret weapon for OpenAI, boosts valuation to $1.3 billion
"Narrowing Clay’s aperture from a do-anything, horizontal solution to one pointed only at growth wasn’t a small step. It meant axing the code tool and workflows, and losing clients. Amin’s cofounder and some early employees departed for other startup ideas. But the result was significant: an immediate and steady influx of customers, renewed investor interest and an ‘overnight success’ years in the making."
Martech for 2025: A brand-new, 108-page report on AI use cases, stack foundations, and market structure
Happy holiday season, ye merry marketing maestros! Here's a marvelous way to get prepped and psyched for the New Year that's right around the corner. Frans Riemersma and I just released our latest report, Martech for 2025. It's 108 pages of our latest research and analysis of what's actually happening with marketing technology in the maelstrom of AI madness. No heaps of hype. Just hard data and a hopefully helpful framing of the facts. You
Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027
"... And so when that happens, we will need to have a conversation... at places like this event, about how do we organize our economy, right? How do humans find meaning?"
The foundation model divide: Mapping the future of open vs. closed AI development - CB Insights Research
With industry leaders divided in their approaches, we look at the winners and losers in the open-source vs. closed-source landscape and what enterprises need to think about next for adoption.