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Applied AI

Agents Learn to Haggle Prices with Software Vendors

By Aaron Holmes and Kevin McLaughlin · Nov 6, 2025 10:42am PST
While artificial intelligence agents continue to generate mixed results, depending on how much assistance customers get from their AI vendors, some of them have gained a new skill: negotiating software contracts.Over the past year, data management startup Cribl has been using an AI agent from procurement software startup Zip that reads Cribl’s... While artificial intelligence agents continue to generate mixed results, depending on how much...
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AI Agenda

Why OpenAI CFO Said Uncle Sam Should Backstop Chip Financing; Databricks Co-Founder Responds to Benchmark Critics

By Rocket Drew and Amir Efrati · Nov 6, 2025 7:00am PST
It’s not every day one of the world’s most valuable companies asks the U.S. government for assistance, but these aren’t ordinary days. On Wednesday, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar suggested at a Wall Street Journal event that the federal government ought to guarantee the financing of AI chips. Come again?“We’re looking for an ecosystem of banks,... It’s not every day one of the world’s most valuable companies asks the U.S. government for...
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Exclusive

OpenAI’s Data Center Partner Nears $120 Million Stock Sale For Its Employees

By Anissa Gardizy, Natasha Mascarenhas and Sri Muppidi · Nov 5, 2025 11:28am PST
Crusoe, a startup developing a large data center in Texas for Oracle and OpenAI, is arranging an employee share sale that values the seven-year-old firm at around $13 billion, according to two people with knowledge of the transaction. The deal involves selling around $120 million worth of employee shares and would value them at a 30% premium to... Crusoe, a startup developing a large data center in Texas for Oracle and OpenAI, is arranging an...
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Amazon Prime Video Floods TV Ad Market, Stealing Dollars From FAST Channels

By Catherine Perloff and Sahil Patel · Jun 30, 2025 6:00am PDT · 1 comment
Until recently, it seemed video streaming had a channel for every taste. Fans of the 1970s Western drama “Little House on the Prairie,” for instance, could spend time on the channel by the same name watching old episodes. The same is true for the 1980s crime drama “Murder She Wrote” and the 1950s Western “Gunsmoke”—each of these shows have... Until recently, it seemed video streaming had a channel for every taste. Fans of the 1970s...
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Amazon’s Prime Video Shifts to Profits, Promoting Rival Streamers

By Sahil Patel · Jan 24, 2025 6:00am PST · 1 comment
In the summer of 2022, a year after becoming CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy wanted the executives running the company’s Prime Video business to tell him why it was spending billions of dollars a year on expensive shows such as “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” and “Citadel.” At an annual planning meeting, Jassy... In the summer of 2022, a year after becoming CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy wanted the executives...
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The Briefing

The Real Cost of Amazon Prime

By Martin Peers · May 14, 2021 5:00pm PDT
In his annual shareholder letter a few weeks ago, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calculated the value the e-commerce giant had created for its customers. He concentrated on how much time Amazon saves shoppers in freeing them from driving to a store to buy goods. His conclusion: The convenience of Amazon Prime is worth $630 a year for each Prime... In his annual shareholder letter a few weeks ago, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calculated the value...