AI is often presented as a way to make decisions more objective: remove human judgment, the thinking goes, and you remove human bias. A growing body of research refutes this. AI systems learn from human history. They are trained on our decisions, our language, our institutions and, inevitably, our blind spots. When those systems screen…

Perplexity announced a partnership with UK-based sovereign infrastructure company Valarian on October 20, 2026, to bring Perplexity Computer inside institutions' own servers and systems, including air-gapped networks isolated from the live web and other outside networks. Computer plans tasks, coordinates models and tools, and carries out research and multi-step workflows. Under the partnership, Valarian's ACRA…

Imagine it’s Monday morning, hours before the quarterly forecast meeting. A finance leader asks an AI agent, “Why did gross margin decline? Which assumptions need to change? And what should the company do next?” Within seconds, the agent pulls information from multiple systems, identifies a handful of drivers and recommends cutting discretionary spending or revisiting…

Otter.ai, maker of an AI notetaker and conversational knowledge platform, announced the closing of $320 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF) on October 20, 2026. The company said the new capital will accelerate the next phase of its enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion, and product innovation. Otter framed the…

Yelp is embedding numerous new AI features into its app that can do everything from call to check on restaurant wait times to create personalized recommendations that remember your preferences.Læs hele historien hos techcrunch.com →

Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups without diluting equity and gets returns on the results of marketing spend. Otter.ai said that it will use these funds for enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion, and product innovation.…

Most people pick one Claude model and use it for everything. Usually it's the most powerful one they can get. If you're paying for Opus, why would you write with anything else? Because for content, the answer to "Opus 5.5 or Sonnet 5.5?" is both, at different points in the work. I use Opus 5.5…

An independent Schlotzsky’s and Cinnabon franchisee cut menu repricing time by 95% and built a workflow that could free up $100K in cash flow.Læs hele historien hos openai.com →