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Stripe survey: Four trends reshaping how SaaS platforms compete in the AI era

AI is creating more SaaS competition, and platforms are feeling the pressure. A Stripe survey of 200 platform leaders shows how they plan to evolve pricing, grow revenue, and retain customers.

Musk Says White House Duties Distracted Him From AI

Elon Musk says his work last year with the White House distracted him from artificial intelligence development at his businesses. “[I] kinda got carried away, basically,” Musk said in an upcoming episode of the new podcast series, “The Buil

Anthropic Co-Founder Predicts AI Will Bring US GDP to $44 Trillion

Anthropic’s co-founder predicts that artificial intelligence could boost America’s economic output by nearly 50% by 2030. That forecast comes from one of the AI startup’s internal models, Jack Clark said Saturday (Oct. 17) at the IMF and Wo

Meta outlines Muse AI use cases for businesses

The company has shared info on some of the more common business use cases for its Muse AI tools based on examples it's seen thus far.

In September 2026, the value added of industrial enterprises above designated size grew by 5.5%

Official industry reference index; publication dates differ from statistical periods; please read the original text for scope of application and detailed data.

First Batch of Standards for AI Empowerment of the Steel Industry Released to Support the Industry's Digital and Intelligent Transformation

Official industry reference index; publication dates differ from statistical periods; please read the original text for scope of application and detailed data.

OpenAI’s API Only Partly Matched ChatGPT’s Citations, Paper Finds via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

A paper tested whether Google results and OpenAI's API can stand in for ChatGPT's citations. They matched cited sites more often than the exact pages. The post OpenAI’s API Only Partly Matched ChatGPT’s Citations, Paper Finds appeared first

Amazon SPN service provider network adds AI tools category, opens service provider onboarding applications

Shenzhen factory sellers are making a fortune overseas by "borrowing Hong Kong to go global" plus AI

Mainland enterprises' strength combined with Hong Kong's advantages is aggressively winning orders overseas.

American Express launches framework to verify AI shopping agent purchases

American Express has published a new framework that can help card issuers verify purchases made by artificial intelligence (AI)-powered shopping agents. The payments company released its Intent Intelligence framework on Tuesday, Oct. 13. Wi

Building trust in AI agents: A production-ready evaluation framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Autonomous AI agents fail softly: latency stays flat while answer quality quietly erodes. This post shares a nine-stage evaluation framework, built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, that catches silent quality regressions across the full agent l

Trump Task Force Orders Report on AI Dangers

President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence (AI) task force, the Super Intelligence Force, will commission a report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology to evaluate potential dangers of the technology, Blo

Taco Bell Says AI Helps Workers Live Más, Quit Less

The hardest job at a Taco Bell during the dinner rush is the headset. One worker takes orders from a line of cars, repeats them back over road noise and fields the complaints when a Crunchwrap comes out wrong. At more than 890 Taco Bell dri

Evos raises $9M to build AI operators for industrial businesses

Evos raised $9 million in pre-seed funding to develop AI operators that learn employees' workflows and perform tasks within existing business software. One freight brokerage has used the technology to make nearly 3,500 invoice-auditing deci

How Itaú is building generative AI for its entire customer base

With ia.i, a conversational interface, and the IARA governance platform, Itaú is applying its AI First strategy to customers and employees — in one of Brazil’s most regulated sectors.

Regions Bank Says AI Cybersecurity Drives Up Costs 1.5% to 3.5%

Regions Financial Corp., parent company of Regions Bank, expects the cost of cybersecurity to increase its adjusted noninterest expense by between 1.5% and 3.5% for full-year 2026, Chief Financial Officer Anil Chadha said Friday (Oct. 16) d

Google launches Universal Cart for purchases across retailers

Google formally opened up shopper access to its new Universal Cart for agentic shopping, laying out artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features for price-tracking and checking ahead of the 2026 holiday shopping season. Universal Cart, whi

FTC Subpoenas AI Companies Over Security Breaches Amid Shifting White House Policy

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday (Oct. 14) sent civil subpoenas to OpenAI and Anthropic seeking documents related to a series of recent safety and security incidents in which the companies’ artificial intelligence (AI) agents

12 Best Enterprise Workflow Automation Platforms

Compare the top enterprise workflow automation platforms for technical teams. See how each tool handles control, scale, and AI workflows.

Introducing Reflection Beam: an open-weight model for agentic coding on AWS

Reflection AI's Beam is an open-weight model for agentic coding and long-horizon tasks. This post shows how to deploy Beam on AWS: start with an Amazon SageMaker JumpStart real-time endpoint, or use Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference with

Recruiters find people faster with AI — but confidence in candidates hasn’t followed

More than 2 in 3 recruiters told TestGorilla they spend an hour or more manually checking a candidate’s credentials.

AI is the root of recruiters’ biggest stressors, survey says

Current technology isn’t keeping up with the needs of HR professionals, according to Employ.

Email marketing’s history can guide AI governance

Attribution, accuracy, and authenticity offer a starting point for responsible AI use — and for protecting your brand's credibility. The post Email marketing’s history can guide AI governance appeared first on MarTech.

AI won’t plug forwarder margin leaks without better data and processes

Freight forwarders must tackle unbilled charges, manual rework, and unreliable data before expecting AI to protect their margins, according to Metro Shipping and Portcast. Speaking on The Loadstar Podcast, Ian Powell, tech and solutions dir