SoundHound's Bet That Channel Beats Model
How buying LivePerson's Fortune 100 messaging network, not its AI, is the real logic behind SoundHound's biggest deal yet.
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AI
Analysis of the AI industry’s business decisions — model launches, pricing moves, capability claims and what the numbers behind them actually show.
The AI Gateway Anyone Could Walk Through
A bug in LiteLLM's tool-calling gateway let an attacker in with a fake Bearer token, and CISA just gave federal agencies until September 16 to close it.
Top 7 AI Voice Generation Platforms in 2026
Who this is for: product teams shipping voice features, media companies producing narration at scale, and developers building voice agents. ElevenLabs and Deepgram lead a fast-consolidating category.
Google's Bet on Forecasting by the Hour
WeatherNext 3 trades stale, six-hour-old physics simulations for live satellite data, forecasting the weather every hour at five times the resolution of its predecessor.
Stripe's $7.5 Billion Bet on AI's Toll Booth
How Stripe turned AI model routing into its next payments rail
Databricks' $190 Billion Vote of Confidence
How a data-platform company convinced investors that AI agents need their own database
The AI Gateway Is Becoming a Toll Booth
How Stripe, Databricks, and Cloudflare are racing to own the layer that sits between every enterprise and every AI model.
The Cheapest Frontier-Class Model Isn't American
How MiniMax's open-weight M2.7 model shows Chinese labs closing the gap on agentic coding at a fraction of Western API prices.
Anthropic's $30 Trillion Pitch
How the company behind Claude is asking IPO investors to believe its addressable market is roughly the size of the entire U.S. economy.
The Ransomware Crew That Told an AI Agent It Was Just a Drill
How a Russian-speaking hacking group used SpaceX's Cursor coding agent to break into ten companies simply by lying to it about what it was doing.