CarbonAI's $12 million round, led by Cowboy Ventures, funds AI agents for underwriting, due diligence and post-close monitoring of commercial real estate loans. The EU AI Act treats consumer credit decisions as high-risk but not corporate lending, a distinction that blurs when a sponsor provides a personal guarantee.
Accenture has capped employee spending on Claude at $29 a month. Some staff who were spending up to $1,000 a month on the tool are looking for ways to keep their access.
Signs of distress at AI cloud provider CoreWeave deepened on Thursday, with its credit default swaps reaching distressed levels as investors grow wary of AI-related debt.
TSMC posted a record quarter but cannot make chips for everyone. Nvidia, Apple, Broadcom and AMD are competing hard for its production capacity.
A WatchGuard Technologies survey of 684 employees at mid-sized companies in eight countries, including France, found that 64% use AI tools not approved by management. Fewer than 30% of the organisations keep an inventory of such software.
AWS, Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are building forward-deployed engineering teams. Companies want to see returns on their AI investments, and these engineers work directly with customers to deliver them.