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Profound's $1.8B Bet on Answer Engines

Profound's $1.8B Bet on Answer Engines

How a two-year-old company reached a $1.8 billion valuation selling brands visibility inside AI answers - a channel with no clicks, no rankings, and no way to verify the work.
John Karpentar Marketing 6 min read
Cornelis Puts Compute Inside the AI Network

Cornelis Puts Compute Inside the AI Network

How a $205 million round and a Qualcomm alliance are being spent on an argument that the 15% of an AI system nobody optimizes determines the value of the other 85%.
John Karpentar Chips 5 min read
Salesforce Koa Stops Renting Reasoning

Salesforce Koa Stops Renting Reasoning

How Salesforce and Nvidia post-trained an enterprise reasoning model on open weights - and why every SaaS company sitting on a data moat is about to run the same play.
John Karpentar Enterprise 6 min read
Big Tech's AI Slowdown Pact

Big Tech's AI Slowdown Pact

How three rivals agreed to slow the pace of frontier AI development - and ran straight into antitrust law, a president who calls the risk a hoax, and a chip industry with no interest in braking.
John Karpentar AI 7 min read
Top 7 Brain-Computer Interface Companies in 2026

Top 7 Brain-Computer Interface Companies in 2026

Neuralink, Synchron, Blackrock Neurotech, Paradromics, Precision Neuroscience, Onward Medical and Science Corporation compared on human evidence, regulatory status and real limitations — where no BCI is yet approved anywhere.
John Karpentar Roundups 13 min read
Top 7 AI Image Generation Platforms in 2026

Top 7 AI Image Generation Platforms in 2026

The leading AI image platforms in 2026 — Google, OpenAI, Midjourney, Black Forest Labs, Adobe, Ideogram and Recraft — compared on model quality, pricing, licensing and who carries the copyright risk.
John Karpentar Roundups 12 min read
RAG vs Long Context: The Research Disagrees

RAG vs Long Context: The Research Disagrees

How the internet's most confident architecture debate rests on a body of research that openly contradicts itself — and what the papers actually say.
John Karpentar Opinion 7 min read
The EU AI Act Deadline You Actually Missed

The EU AI Act Deadline You Actually Missed

How Europe's AI rulebook became enforceable on the obligations nobody prepared for, and deferred the ones every compliance team spent two years building toward.
John Karpentar Opinion 6 min read

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