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My first VentureBeat story was the 'Woodstock of AI.' My last is Nvidia buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.

michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:15:00 GMT

Today is my last day as Editorial Director at VentureBeat.

1Password moves into AI cost management, betting that token spend is the next enterprise budget crisis

michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT

1Password on Tuesday launched AI Spend and Consumption Management, a new capability embedded in its SaaS Manager platform that gives IT and finance teams a unified, real-time view of how their organizations consume and spend on AI services from vendors including Anthropic, Cursor, and OpenAI.

Canva launches Code 2.0, offering AI website building to every user — including free accounts

michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Canva on Tuesday launched Canva Code 2.0, a major upgrade to its AI-powered coding tool that lets users build interactive websites, apps, and experiences using plain-language prompts — and then edit the results as easily as tweaking a Canva presentation. The feature is now available to all of the company's more than 265 million monthly users across every pricing tier, including free accounts.

SpaceX's Grok 4.5 launches at half the price of rivals — here's why that could rattle Anthropic and OpenAI

michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Elon Musk's SpaceX released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, the first artificial intelligence model the company has trained specifically for coding and autonomous agents — and the first tangible product of its $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding startup Cursor, completed just weeks ago.

OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice upgrade that lets ChatGPT talk more like a person

michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:49:06 GMT

OpenAI on Wednesday launched GPT-Live, a pair of new voice models that fundamentally redesign how people talk to ChatGPT — replacing the company's existing Advanced Voice Mode with an architecture that can listen and speak simultaneously, much like an actual human conversation.

Slack’s Slackbot can now pull your CRM data, generate charts, and send DocuSigns — all from a chat message.

michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Five years and $27.7 billion after Salesforce acquired Slack, the two products are finally starting to function as a single system. On Wednesday, Slack launched an integration that connects Slackbot — the personal AI agent built into every workspace — to the entire Salesforce platform, including CRM data, Tableau analytics, Data 360 customer profiles, and a growing constellation of third-party applications, all through a single conversational prompt.

Anthropic brings Claude Cowork to mobile and web as usage data shows most users aren’t coding

michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Cowork on mobile and web, expanding a tool that has quietly become the company's bridge between the developer-centric world of AI coding agents and the far larger market of knowledge workers who never open a terminal.