Larridin raises $30M to track what companies get for their AI spend
Pelion led the Series A for a startup that ties AI bills to shipped work. Its customer data puts the median engineer at $213 a week in billed AI coding spend.
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Supermicro plans 10,000 SambaNova SN50 chips to run decode beside NVIDIA GPUs
Supermicro will sell racks where NVIDIA GPUs read the prompt and SambaNova SN50 chips write the answer. Speed figures exist for SN50, not for these systems.
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Claude Meetings joins Google Meet calls to take notes and draft docs
Anthropic's beta puts Claude in Google Meet calls on Team and Enterprise plans. It is on by default for Team, and two settings deserve a look first.
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Clinicians rated AMBOSS’s grounded AI above ChatGPT in a study it helped shape
Doctors and students gave a grounded clinical AI better marks than ChatGPT, but the study measured impressions, not accuracy, and AMBOSS chose the questions.
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Small language models explained: what runs on a laptop and when to pick one
Small language models now run on a work laptop. What they need in memory, where vendor benchmarks show them holding up, and where they still fall apart.
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What MCP is, and what it means when a tool connects to Claude or ChatGPT
MCP is the open standard behind Claude connectors and ChatGPT plugins. How it reaches your data, what the AI can do once connected, and what to check first.
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GDPR and AI tools at work: what to check before customer data goes in
Before a small team puts customer data into a chatbot, the GDPR asks five questions. Here is what each article says, and why the Digital Omnibus does not change it yet.
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The AI Observer Awards will recognise AI work that was checked, shipped and still holds up a year later.
A planned programme. Nominations, jury and criteria will be published here before anyone is asked to enter.
Planned categories
- AI agency of the year
- Best AI tutorial
- Best interview
- Tool that held up