AI business strategy, funding, pricing and market moves.

Business6 Jul 2026 · 1 min

EU agrees to simplify AI Act rules via Omnibus package

A May political agreement extends compliance deadlines for high-risk systems and adds new rules targeting AI-generated intimate content.

Business6 Jul 2026 · 1 min

PwC: AI is splitting the global labor market into two tracks

The 2026 AI Jobs Barometer finds 'professionalised' roles growing faster than roles being 'democratised' by AI, with human skills gaining value.

Business6 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Studies split on whether AI adoption is shrinking employment

National-level data from Denmark and the US show no clear link to overall job losses, even as specific roles face concentrated impact.

Business6 Jul 2026 · 2 min

xAI opens Grok agent platform to third-party developers

Grok agents can now be embedded in external products with revenue sharing, as xAI courts developers frustrated by app-store-style platform fees. Demo content.

Business6 Jul 2026 · 1 min

DeepMind hires 20+ Contextual AI researchers in $80-90M deal

The licensing-and-hiring arrangement brings over two dozen researchers into DeepMind, the latest example of large labs absorbing smaller AI teams wholesale.

Business4 Jul 2026 · 2 min

OpenAI restructures API pricing around cached and batch tiers

A simplified three-tier structure — realtime, cached, batch — replaces the growing menu of per-model discounts. Most workloads get cheaper, some get sharply more expensive. Demo content.

Business1 Jul 2026 · 2 min

DeepSeek updates pricing again as inference costs enter free fall

Off-peak discounts now reach 85%, and analysts say frontier-adjacent inference is heading toward effectively zero marginal price. Demo content.

Business26 Jun 2026 · 2 min

AI inference spending passes traditional cloud compute for the first time

Quarterly enterprise reports show model inference is now the largest infrastructure line item at a majority of software companies. Demo content.