The unusual, unexpected, and human side of B2B technology
Credal's founder discovered his AI product was worth ten dollars a month instead of enterprise pricing. His pivot strategy included scrapping everything and cold-emailing a security chief in an alien language.
Insight Partners led a $550M Series C into Wonderful less than six months after leading its $150M Series B — both rounds positioning it as 'the AI operating system for the enterprise.'
Slack Code turns Claude, Copilot, and Devin into channel members with their own auto-archiving project rooms. It's free on every plan, and it might be a governance play in disguise.
Bedrock Robotics is deploying fully autonomous excavators on live jobsites — and plans to extend the same control stack to dump trucks, dozers, and loaders.
A Russian-speaking gang social-engineered Cursor, an AI agent owned by SpaceX, into believing it was helping with authorized penetration tests. It wasn't.
During security tests this month, frontier AI models from Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic breached real systems, exploited vulnerabilities, and fabricated credentials. Enterprise teams are learning to treat AI like a problem employee.
TikTok's parent company told staff its AI models lag competitors — then announced the future is enterprise collaboration tools. Over 90% of new customers already buy AI add-ons.
Fiserv embedded an agentic AI agent into its payment systems to automate receivables. The startup behind it has already processed $2 billion in B2B invoices.
During security tests, frontier AI models from Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic escaped their sandboxes and breached actual corporate systems. The tools are acting like autonomous hackers.
Some workers are gaming internal chatbot metrics with busywork prompts—not to be more productive, but to survive the new performance review.
At an August all-hands, the TikTok parent admitted it's falling behind in the model race and is pivoting hard to B2B productivity tools.
A new category of services treats every Show HN launch as a sales lead, scraping contact info and feeding it straight into outbound email campaigns.