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Which 488 SaaS tools captured 6,704 press mentions in the last 90 days. AI categories took 6 of the top 10 slots, and 95% of indexed tools earned zero coverage.
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Microsoft has paused plans to auto‑install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows 11 PCs, but it didn't explain why.
CometChat, a CPaaS firm founded by twins Anuj and Anant Garg, raised $6.5 million from Run Ventures, taking total funding to $21.1 million. The startup works with matrimonial platforms, restaurant chains, real estate brokerage firms, and hospital chains, and others.
One of the most popular ways to view the Epstein Files, an interface called Jmail that mimics a Gmail inbox, is hosted on Guillermo Rauch’s $9 billion unicorn Vercel.
A federal appeals court has temporarily allowed Perp
How ecommerce managers can optimize ChatGPT product rankings step by stepPractical guide for ecom managers to optimize for ChatGPT productsTom WellsMar 17, 2026GEO Know-How
SolarWinds. Ivanti. SysAid. ManageEngine. Giants of the KEV world, all of whom have ITSM side-projects. ITSMs, as a group of solutions, have played pivotal roles in numerous ransomware gang campaigns - not only do they represent code running on a system, but they hold a significant amount
SolarWinds. Ivanti. SysAid. ManageEngine. Giants of the KEV world, all of whom have ITSM side-projects. ITSMs, as a group of solutions, have played pivotal roles in numerous ransomware gang campaigns - not only do they represent code running on a system, but they hold a significant amount
SolarWinds. Ivanti. SysAid. ManageEngine. Giants of the KEV world, all of whom have ITSM side-projects. ITSMs, as a group of solutions, have played pivotal roles in numerous ransomware gang campaigns - not only do they represent code running on a system, but they hold a significant amount
OpenAI has signaled ChatGPT pricing will
As part of the partnership, GridBeyond will work closely with Samsung to explore opportunities across trading, asset optimisation and energy services. Read more: Samsung’
At the Fast Company Grill at SXSW, the CEO of ElevenLabs shared the company’s mission to help people restore their voices lost to diseases like ALS. During the final weeks of his battle with ALS , the late actor Eric Dane teamed up with
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Mistral's new platform lets enterprises build custom models trained on their own data. Read more: Mistral AI makes enterprise push with two new launches
The Hunter Alpha chatbot identified itself as ‘a Chinese AI model primarily trained in Chinese’
OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT suggests a potential overhaul of the subscription model. Nick Turley states that we might be heading towards the end of flat-rate monthly plans due to increasing resource demands of AI models.
Zhipu, MiniMax shares jump as Nvidia CEO endorses Chinese AI agent platform
Encyclopedia Britannica is suing OpenAI ove
AI chatbot gave advice on how to avoid paying bonuses.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang gestures during the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference in San Jose, California, U.S. March 17, 2026. Chinese artificial intelligence stocks surged Wednesday following upbeat comments from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the promise of AI agents and OpenClaw. Huang on Tuesday said t
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has hailed OpenClaw, a rapidly emerging AI project, as a major leap in human-computer interaction.
OpenAI may phase out unlimited ChatGPT plans as it explores usage-based pricing. Executives say AI could be billed like electricity, with users paying per use. While free access will remain, a major overhaul of subscription models appears increasingly likely soon.
MiniMax Group Inc., which just released a new self-evolving agent, extended earlier gains to climb as much as 29% to a record high. Knowledge Atlas Technology JSC Ltd., known as Zhipu, rose as much as 23%, while Cloud services provider UCloud Technology Co. also gained in Shanghai. Chinese AI stoc
Compute, storage, and SaaS all slugged - even on Alibaba's own silicon Alibaba Cloud today informed users it will increase prices for many services by up to 34 percent.…
Forge is positioned as a more privacy-focussed tool, unlike those from its rivals, including OpenAI, which rely on cloud services. Forge is designed for industries where data privacy is important, such as finance, defence, and manufacturing.
Chinese shares related to OpenClaw jumped, buoyed by bullish comments from Nvidia Corp.’s chief on the potential of artificial intelligence agents.
OpenAI expands ChatGPT’s free tier with faster, cost-efficient GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano models, boosting coding, reasoning, and real-time multimodal capabilities.
Here's how you can enable the new feature
Public Spat Ruh-roh. The programmatic power couple Publicis and The Trade Desk are on the rocks, according to Adweek. Per a leaked memo Publicis sent to some clients, an independent auditor – FirmDecisions, owned by Ebiquity – says TTD applied its DSP fee and charged for opt-in products in unaut
The free model, called Hunter Alpha, surfaced on the AI gateway platform OpenRouter on March 11 without any developer attribution and was later described by the platform as a "stealth model."
The free model, called Hunter Alpha, surfaced on the AI gateway platform OpenRouter on March 11 without any developer attribution and was later described by the platform as a "stealth model."
The free model, called Hunter Alpha, surfaced on the AI gateway platform OpenRouter on March 11 without any developer attribution and was later described by the platform as a "stealth model."
A new study put ChatGPT to the test by asking it to judge whether hundreds of scientific hypotheses were true or false—and the results were far from reassuring. While the AI got it right about 80% of the time on the surface, its performance dropped significantly when accounting for random guessing,
OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano models for free users. OpenAI says its new Mini model excels in tasks like coding and reasoning, while Nano model focuses on speed and affordability
A simple follow-up prompt turns ChatGPT from a confident answer machine into a more thoughtful, self-critical assistant
March 17, 2026
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Tuesday pointed to a fast-rising AI project called OpenClaw as a major step forward in how people interact with artificial intelligence. "It is now the largest, most popular, the most successful open-sourced project in the history of humanity," Jensen told Jim Cramer in a
OpenAI may launch an initial public offering (IPO) by the end of the year, and the company is focusing on enterprise applications as it does so, CNBC reported Tuesday (March 17). Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, said last week at a company meeting that the OpenAI is “orienting aggressiv
Report finds Reddit ads drive strong performance for retailers
A court of appeals blocked a lower court’s order that would have prevented Perplexity’s artificial intelligence shopping agents from visiting Amazon’s website, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (March 17). The lower court’s order will remain paused until the appeals court has considered Perplexity’s ap
Jensen Huang's endorsement signals major shift in AI interaction landscape
At I/O 2025 , Google One AI Premium (and <a href="https://9to5goog
AI giant taps Cynthia Gaylor for investor relations as ChatGPT pivots to enterprise
OpenAI Group PBC and Mistral AI SAS today introduced new artificial intelligence models optimized for cost-sensitive use cases. OpenAI is rolling out two algorithms called GPT-5.4 mini and GPT 5.4 nano to its cloud services. Anthropic, in turn, has released a new addition to its Mistral Small ser
OpenAI just announced its latest models, GPT 5.4 mini and nano, with the former now available to free ChatGPT users. <a clas
AI startup You.com, valued at $1.5 billion after a funding round in September, is changing its senior leadership as it focuses on helping businesses adopt AI. Bryan McCann, You.com’s CTO and co-founder, recently left to join Anthropic as a member of technical staff, according to his Linked
Mistral AI on Monday launched Forge , an enterprise model training platform that allows organizations to build, customize, and continuously improve AI models using their own proprietary data — a move that positions t
Merriam-Webster and Britannica argue that OpenAI’s ChatGPT ‘cannibalized’ their web traffic
Fidji Simo, CEO of Instacart Inc., speaks during an interview in San Francisco, March 3, 2022. OpenAI is focusing employee and investor attention on its enterprise business as the artificial intelligence startup gears up to go public, potentially by the end of the year, CNBC has learned. Fidji Sim
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