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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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  • Kraken parent Payward joins Anthropic’s Project Glasswing for AI security push

    Payward will use Anthropic’s cybersecurity model to hunt vulnerabilities and share open-source findings.

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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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  • Freightos Shows the AI Freight Payoff Starts With Transactions

    Global freight is becoming more digital, and it’s happening just in time for artificial intelligence. That, at least, was the backdrop for Freightos’ second-quarter 2026 results, released Monday (Aug. 17). Transactions on the company’s digital freight marketplace reached 458,000, up 15%, while gross booking value, or the value of freight services transacted through the platform,…

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  • White House AI Testing Shift Could Put Open Models Back in the Risk File

    The White House is reportedly preparing to bring powerful open-weight AI models into its voluntary pre-release cybersecurity testing framework, a move that could narrow a gap that had started to matter for banks, payment firms and merchants choosing among artificial intelligence vendors. The reported change, detailed by WIRED, would mean open models could be included in the framework…

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  • Cognition AI Eyes $40 Billion Valuation From New Funding

    Cognition AI is reportedly planning a funding round that could more than double its valuation. The artificial intelligence (AI) coding startup is in discussion with investors about the round, which may lift its valuation to at least $40 billion, Bloomberg News reported late Tuesday (Aug. 11), citing sources familiar with the matter. This comes less than three months…

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  • Tech’s Big Push to Make AI Content Traceable

    The internet’s response to AI slop has mostly worked backward. Platforms scan content after it is already uploaded, then try to guess whether a machine wrote it, an inherently probabilistic bet that it is losing ground as synthetic content gets cheaper to produce. Anthropic, Apple, Canon and Google are each building a different layer underneath…

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