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How companies — from multinationals to African SMEs — are adopting, deploying, avoiding or being disrupted by AI. Practical and strategic rather than theoretical.

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OpenAI Reportedly Discounting Hard to Win Anthropic's Biggest Customers: What Is Verified

Reports say OpenAI is discounting heavily to win Anthropic's biggest customers. The 90% headline is one customer's cost cut, not a price list. Here is what is verified and what developers should do.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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OpenAI Models Are Coming to Google Cloud: What Is Confirmed and What Is Not

OpenAI's frontier models and Codex workflows are heading to Google Cloud's Model Garden, bought through Marketplace. It is a private preview for now, with general availability promised in the coming weeks.

27 Oct 2026 2 min read

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ChatGPT Ads Reach 89 Countries as OpenAI Adds Nigeria and South Africa

OpenAI has added 26 countries to ChatGPT Ads, including Nigeria and South Africa, and says more than 100,000 advertisers have run campaigns. Only 11 of the new markets are named.

27 Oct 2026 2 min read

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Uber ChatGPT Work Rollout: All 30,000 Staff Get OpenAI's Agent After a 1,000-Person Pilot

Uber ChatGPT Work rollout: all 30,000 Uber staff now get OpenAI's workplace agent after a 1,000-person pilot in which 80% of early users were not engineers.

22 Oct 2026 4 min read

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OpenAI Models on Google Cloud: What Changes for Developers and Businesses

OpenAI models on Google Cloud arrive in Model Garden within weeks, with Codex and existing spend commitments. Here is what builders and IT buyers should know.

21 Oct 2026 5 min read

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OpenAI Buys Orchestra Bio to Put AI Agents Inside Drug Development

OpenAI has bought Orchestra Bio, whose AI agents manage drug development programmes, and is folding the team into GPT-Rosalind and Rosalind Workbench.

21 Oct 2026 4 min read

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AI & Business

Anthropic Public Benefit Fund Gets 5% of the Company's Shares, With More Tied to Valuation

The Anthropic Public Benefit Fund will hold 5% of the Claude maker's shares, pending stockholder approval, and can grow by 2% for every 50% rise in valuation.

19 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Replit Makes OpenAI the Default for Replit Agent, Pushing Claude to an Option

Replit Agent now runs on OpenAI models by default. CEO Amjad Masad cites cost and performance, while Claude stays available as an option for users.

18 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Anthropic Data Center Deal in Nova Scotia Is Its First in Canada

Anthropic has leased data center capacity from EverWind at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, its first Canadian deal, as its compute bill and IPO plans keep growing.

18 Oct 2026 4 min read

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OpenAI Tests Sponsored Agents as ChatGPT Ads Expands Into Shopify and HubSpot

OpenAI is piloting clearly labeled advertiser-run AI agents inside ChatGPT, while adding AI campaign tools and plugging ChatGPT Ads into Shopify and HubSpot.

13 Oct 2026 3 min read

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Google Tests AI Contribution Pilot to Pay Publishers for Search Answer Inputs

Google is running a pilot scheme compensating a select group of digital publishers whose content feeds its AI-generated answers. The initiative attempts to address growing publisher pushback over declining web referral traffic caused by automated search features.

1 Oct 2026 2 min read

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ElevenLabs Valuation Hits $22 Billion Following $300 Million Employee Secondary Sale

Artificial intelligence voice developer ElevenLabs has doubled its market valuation to $22 billion after completing a $300 million employee tender offer. The rapid growth is backed by surging corporate adoption, with enterprise clients now accounting for the majority of revenue.

1 Oct 2026 2 min read

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Personal AI Assistant Startup Instinct Secures $1 Billion Series C at $10 Billion Valuation

Personal AI assistant startup Instinct has closed a $1 billion Series C funding round, quadrupling its valuation to $10 billion. The massive investment comes just five weeks after the company's previous round, highlighting surging interest in autonomous consumer agents.

29 Sep 2026 2 min read

DeepSeek reaches $1 billion in annualized revenue as the Chinese AI startup prepares for a potential public offering on Shanghai’s STAR Market, highlighting its rapid growth in 202

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DeepSeek Reaches $1 Billion Annualized Revenue as Public Offering Approaches

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has seen its run-rate revenue cross $1 billion after a rapid period of expansion. The firm is now moving towards a public listing that could value the enterprise at $75 billion.

25 Sep 2026 2 min read

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Adobe Finalises $340 Million Acquisition of Topaz Labs

Adobe has completed its $340 million acquisition of AI enhancement specialist Topaz Labs. The deal brings Emmy Award-winning video and image upscaling models directly into Creative Cloud workflows and Adobe Firefly.

23 Sep 2026 2 min read

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