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There is an expectation out there, due in large part to the hype around AI, that companies are rolling it out widely and seeing meaningful results. Yet research suggests that most organizations still struggle to scale AI projects beyond pockets of success. At a panel at HumanX in Amsterdam last
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When Glasswing Ventures' co-founder and managing partner Rudina Seseri appeared at a TechCrunch Early Stage event in Boston in 2024, she already recognized that AI was changing the way firms like hers invest, and what they looked for in a company. The old SaaS playbook was breaking down.
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Harness isn't just a company creating tools to help developers ship code faster and safer, it's also creating software itself, and AI coding is changing the way it thinks about product roadmaps as a concept. Jyoti Bansal, founder and CEO of the company, appeared recently on
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Adobe announced its new CEO earlier this month, Anil Chakravarthy, who came from the enterprise side of the house where he served as president of Adobe’s customer experience orchestration business. At the beginning of the summer, I spoke to Amit Ahuja, Adobe's SVP of CX products, to
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While the AI labs were sending out scary pronouncements and talking about slowing the pace of frontier development, Salesforce was holding its annual customer carnival in San Francisco this week, giving its customers a very different message. Benioff and friends weren’t there to discuss how AI could potentially wipe
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Visa faces a monumental battle when it comes to fighting fraud, and the volume it deals with is staggering. The company handled 257.5 billion transactions and processed more than $14 trillion in payments last year. AI is only exacerbating the problem by giving scammers more sophisticated ways to fool
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When Harness launched in 2017, it was a different world. Developers wrote code in those days and Harness was designed from the beginning to help build, test and release that code faster. While it's still focused on that, AI agents are producing more code much faster and the
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Here we go again. Another AI researcher emerged this week warning us of humanity's impending doom due to the power of AI. This one was a former Anthropic employee who quit his job because he is convinced these models are going to kill us all. I thought we
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In 2020, IBM announced it was spinning out its managed infrastructure services division as an entirely independent business. It would require essentially building a company from the ground up with everything from a new network to a new security posture to physical badges to get into the building. Yet it
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in FastForward #78 in the News of the week section. It is presented here in its entirety with light editing. Nvidia is the most valuable company in the world. In its most recent quarter, it reported revenue of over $96 billion, up