WindBorne, a Silicon Valley startup that combines weather balloons and AI to forecast the weather, has won a US military contract worth almost $50 million. It is a sizeable defense deal for an AI weather company.
As companies move AI projects from pilots into production, Dell is changing how it sells to West Coast customers who build much of the AI stack themselves. Infrastructure vendors are finding that these builders call for a different sales approach.
Startup Honeyjar is pitching AI tools aimed at public relations and corporate communications. It is betting that AI can help fix a PR process that journalists, founders and even some PR professionals describe as broken.
The article revisits the build-or-buy decision for platform teams now that coding agents make building in-house easier. It reports that teams building from scratch are 3.5 times more likely to lack a strategy, suggesting the trade-off is about more than developer time.
The IMF's managing director addresses AI's impact on growth, jobs and hacking. She presents the technology as both a source of strong growth and a risk to employment.
After TF1, Values.media is testing agent-based buying of TV sponsorship with M6 and France Télévisions. Group CEO Emmanuel Crego explains how it works.