Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel AI
Through the acquisition, WMG aims to better track when its artists’ work is used in AI-generated content or for training AI models.
AI startups
Google VP warns that two types of AI startups may not survive
As generative AI evolves, a Google VP warns that LLM wrappers and AI aggregators face mounting pressure, with shrinking margins and limited differentiation threatening their long-term viability.
OpenAI’s former sales leader joins VC firm Acrew: OpenAI taught her where startups can build a ‘moat’
Aliisa Rosenthal has found a new career as a VC. She knows what startups can do to protect themselves from the model makers eating their markets.
VCs predict enterprises will spend more on AI in 2026 — through fewer vendors
Enterprises have been experimenting with AI tools for a few years. Investors predict they will start to pick winners in 2026.
VCs deploy ‘kingmaking’ strategy to crown AI winners in their infancy
While VCs have long used big investments to spur category winners, they are taking this strategy to new extremes.
AI PowerPoint-killer Gamma hits $2.1B valuation, $100M ARR, founder says
Gamma is growing quickly, and profitably, its co-founder CEO Grant Lee says.
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