As markets question whether AI will pay off, business buyers are growing wary of vendors who boast about it. The 'AI-powered' label is shifting from selling point to warning sign.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad describes a future of 'self-driving companies' in which AI agents run day-to-day tasks. People would then concentrate on higher-level decisions.
Since the summer, Mistral has been serving Zhipu AI's GLM model on its platform, a move that drew controversy. The JDN argues it was a financial and technical bet that paved the way for Mistral Large 4, its new trillion-parameter model.
Traffic attributed to ChatGPT has dropped sharply in analytics, but actual visits have not fallen. ChatGPT has temporarily stopped adding UTM parameters to some links, making it harder for sites to tell where clicks come from.
Email security firm Proofpoint is buying Varonis for about $6.3 billion in cash. The deal aims to help it monitor the sensitive data that AI agents increasingly have access to.
According to a Nieman Lab report, Meta's new terms, effective October 30, appear to let it crawl and scrape websites linked to businesses that use its platforms, including news publishers. Meta could then use that content to develop, research and train its systems.