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Corporate America’s Top 1% Spend $7,400 Per Employee on AI
The top 1% of U.S. businesses spent a median of $7,400 per employee on artificial intelligence in July, while the top 10% spent roughly $650, according to the Ramp AI Index released Aug. 12. The median company spent just $11.95 per employee. That gap leaves the heaviest spenders with AI budgets more than 600 times…
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Groq Raises $350 Million to Fund AI Inference Goals
Artificial intelligence (AI) inference company Groq has raised $350 million in new funding. The Series A round will help Groq support customers “seeking usage of medium and larger sized clusters of Nvidia accelerated computing for training and inference,” the company said in a news release Monday (Aug. 17). The round was led by tech investment…
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Coinbase Enables Businesses to Get Paid by AI Agents
The Coinbase Business suite now allows businesses to get paid by artificial intelligence agents, Coinbase said in a Tuesday (Aug. 11) blog post. “The same checkouts you already use can now accept payments from AI agents via x402, an open standard for machine-to-machine payments,” the company said in the post. “Funds settle instantly in USDC,…