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How AI tax startup Blue J torched its entire business model for ChatGPT—and became a $300 million company

michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:00:00 GMT

In the winter of 2022, as the tech world was becoming mesmerized by the sudden, explosive arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Benjamin Alarie faced a pivotal choice. His legal tech startup, Blue J, had a respectable business built on the AI of a bygone era, serving hundreds of law firms with predictive models. But it had hit a ceiling.

Google debuts AI chips with 4X performance boost, secures Anthropic megadeal worth billions

michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:00:00 GMT

Google Cloud is introducing what it calls its most powerful artificial intelligence infrastructure to date, unveiling a seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit and expanded Arm-based computing options designed to meet surging demand for AI model deployment — what the company characterizes as a fundamental industry shift from training models to serving them to billions of users.

Salesforce launches AI 'trust layer' to tackle enterprise deployment failures plaguing 80% of projects

michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:00:00 GMT

Salesforce Inc. is expanding its artificial intelligence platform with new data management and governance capabilities, aiming to address what the company says is a crisis in enterprise AI adoption where more than 80% of projects fail to deliver meaningful business value.

Slack is giving AI unprecedented access to your workplace conversations

michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Slack is fundamentally reshaping how artificial intelligence agents access and use enterprise data, launching new platform capabilities that allow developers to tap directly into the rich conversational data flowing through workplace channels — a move that could determine whether Slack or Microsoft Teams becomes the dominant platform for AI-powered work.

Perplexity launches massive search API to take on Google’s dominance

michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Perplexity AI launched a comprehensive search application programming interface on Thursday, giving developers direct access to the same massive web index that powers the startup's answer engine and potentially breaking the stranglehold that tech giants have maintained over global search data.

Brex turns accounting into a one-click setup with Puzzle integration for startups

michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:52:00 GMT

Brex Inc. and artificial intelligence accounting platform Puzzle announced Tuesday a partnership that reduces startup accounting setup from a weeks-long process to a single click, addressing what executives describe as a critical but often overlooked barrier to startup success.

The $1 trillion AI problem: Why Snowflake, Tableau and BlackRock are giving away their data secrets

michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:59:00 GMT

Snowflake, Salesforce, dbt Labs and more than a dozen other technology companies announced Tuesday they will create a universal standard for how business data is defined and shared across platforms — solving what executives call AI's most fundamental bottleneck.