Sam Altman said he was peer pressured into accepting a Goldman Sachs internship offer while still in college, then turned it down and instead pursued Loopt and later Y Combinator.
He said Goldman’s intern class acceptance rate is now below 1%.
Now OpenAI is recruiting 100+ former investment bankers to train AI models for financial modeling and to automate junior-bank tasks, reflecting a shift toward AI-native finance roles.
Canva cut its planned revenue growth rate after the high cost of delivering generative AI features slowed its AI rollout. The forecast was reduced by a third to 20%. Canva says it reduced cost per AI task by nearly 90% since April’s Canva AI 2.0 while it rebuilds its architecture to improve unit economics and support broader workplace-product expansion.
Japanese firms are adopting AI more slowly than peers such as the US and UK despite labor shortages and productivity pressures. Only 8.4% of Japanese workers use AI as part of their job, versus 50% in the US and 32% in the UK. Cautious company culture, low tech talent, and pressure to avoid unemployment are limiting use to low-risk tasks while broader workflow automation stays rare.
Skan AI raised $63 million in a Series C to expand its platform that captures how enterprise work happens and provides that context to AI agents. The funding round included a $63M check, and the company claims it has logged more than 25 billion work signals. The company plans to invest in product development and expand sales efforts across financial services, insurance, healthcare, and technology.
Anthropic updated its Chrome extension so Claude in Chrome now works as a full Cowork client with persistent sessions integrated into the Claude app ecosystem. The new experience is rolling out to all Max and Team plan subscribers. Pro users will receive it in the coming weeks, and Enterprise admins can enable it by default only on specific domains.
AI that builds a digital version of everyone you work with was presented in a discussion entry. No dates, prices, or benchmarks were provided in the text you shared. As a result, it’s not possible to determine any concrete development, rollout, or impact from this snippet alone.
Cognition, the makers of the AI coding agent Devin, is reportedly in talks to raise another funding round at a higher valuation after its prior $1 billion raise.
Thrive Holdings, an OpenAI-backed firm that embeds AI into acquired business workflows, raised $2B at a $12B valuation with investors including SoftBank and Altimeter.
The funding supports expanding a third platform for regulatory services for the built environment.
As a result, Thrive plans to apply its embedded AI approach beyond accounting and IT to help enterprises streamline compliance-related workflows across physical asset projects.
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Organizations adopting agentic AI are running into ROI limits because legacy enterprise data systems and fragmented data access hinder agents that must act in real time. Surveyed executives say AI agents get access to an average of 45% of company data, dropping to 30% or less for data laggards. The result is a push to overhaul data access and governance—so more organizations can scale agents quickly and with higher trust in the decisions they make.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang topped Glassdoor’s 2026 Best CEOs list. He received 99% employee approval in the ranking based on U.S. employee reviews collected from May 16, 2025 to May 15, 2026. Glassdoor reintroduced the Best CEOs list after a five-year break and shifted focus from Best-Led Companies to CEO impact on employee experience.
CGTrader found that AI-generated 3D models now make up one in six uploads on its marketplace but generate minimal sales. AI-generated assets account for $1 out of $90 in revenue, and 4% of 3D-printing buyers said AI works well. CGTrader says the mismatch between upload volume and demand is pushing it to prioritize quality and performance signals in discovery and ranking rather than raw quantity.
Ahrefs launched Letaido, an agent-powered marketing workspace meant to automate recurring research, reporting, and monitoring tasks for marketers and agencies. It cuts a firm’s keyword research and bottom-of-funnel content audit work from a 40-hour week to about 60 minutes. The change moves generative AI from single-person, session-based tasks toward scheduled, continuously running multi-workflow agent jobs integrated with tools like Notion, Slack, and HubSpot.
Apexon expanded its AgentRise agentic AI platform by adding three components: AgentRise Polaris, Lodestone, and Harness. AgentRise Lodestone is positioned to create an AI-ready enterprise knowledge layer that connects data, institutional knowledge, and business context. The update aims to move clients from AI experimentation to full enterprise-scale execution across decision planning, knowledge architecture, and software development lifecycle engineering.
Lovable raised $400m led by Menlo Ventures and backed by the EU’s Scaleup Fund at a $13.3bn valuation. The company’s funding includes its $500m ARR in June. This adds late-stage capital and expands support for its “vibe coding” app-building platform within an EU growth-stage funding program.
Lovable secured $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund. The company reached $400 million in annual recurring revenue in February 2026. It will grow headcount toward about 450 employees this year and focus on deeper enterprise integrations, governance tools, and ongoing post-training of open-source models.
Scott Strazik, CEO of GE Vernova, says the company is betting on electrifying the world as a path to decarbonization while pivoting its R&D by partnering with customers like NVIDIA and nuclear startup Blue Energy on AI-factory and grid technologies. Since GE Vernova became an independent public company in April 2024, its stock is up more than 600%. The shift brings more technology development aimed first at AI factory needs, then expanding those learnings to the broader power grid, alongside a focus on attracting new talent and customers acquired after the spin.
Accel raised $800m for its ninth Europe and Israel early-stage venture fund, and also raised $2.7bn across three other funds. The new Europe and Israel fund is $800m. This increases Accel’s early-stage capacity in Europe, with AI highlighted as a top focus for the fresh fund’s investments.
Resolution AI is presented as a tool that can run on top of an existing helpdesk system.
No specific number, price, or date is provided in the article text.
That means the only takeaway here is the general integration claim, not any measurable performance or results.
Entravel Group raised $7.5 million to expand its white-label travel platform and build a stablecoin-enabled payments layer for travel companies. The platform connects AI-powered hotel mapping across suppliers, giving access to more than 2.2 million hotels. It plans to use the funding to grow supplier credit facilities, increase booking volume, and roll out its white-label offering into more traditional travel markets.
STRGY AI raised €1M in angel funding to scale StrategyOS, its AI-powered strategy execution platform. The funding round totals €1 million. The company plans to expand its commercial team, deepen enterprise customer relationships, and continue product development with more product launches later this year.
OpenAI research describes how enterprises are moving from AI assistance to AI execution by adopting agentic AI. The report cites ChatGPT and Codex as tools used in these deployments. As a result, firms’ workflows shift toward systems that carry out multi-step tasks rather than only answering questions.
RingCentral describes how it uses ChatGPT Work and Codex to speed up AI product development and to centralize operational intelligence across engineering and operations. The specific tools mentioned are ChatGPT Work and Codex. As a result, teams can connect engineering work with operations-focused insights in one AI-centered workflow, though this page provides no measurable outcomes.
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