Anthropic’s revenue continues not just to grow at an historic pace but to accelerate. The model maker’s annualized revenue run rate — a projection of a full year’s revenue based on a recent, shorter period —surpassed $65 billion at the end of July, Bloomberg reported on Monday, up from $47 billion in May and just … Read more
Clarity During Uncertainty You don’t need certainty to have clarity. Uncertainty means you can’t predict the future. Clarity shapes your actions. You can’t predict outcomes. You can choose direction. Clarity During Uncertainty Waiting for certainty is paralysis. You don’t know why sales dropped 20%. One leader says, “Let’s wait until things become clearer.” Another leader … Read more
Seventy percent of marketers believe the marketing industry has changed more in the past three years than in the past 50. That means that marketing automation platforms need to change, too. Pardot is a longtime fixture of the B2B landscape, but the lack of development has left many businesses looking for alternatives.
Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, according to a new report in Bloomberg. OpenRouter helps customers to select different AI models to perform different tasks, depending on their specific needs and budget. The company announced in May that it had raised a $113 million Series B, at a reported $1.3 billion valuation. (Investors … Read more
There is a step in the development process for large language model (LLM)-assisted tooling that most teams skip because it's tedious, time-consuming, and doesn't produce results visible to end users: Verifying that what the model is saying is actually correct. Not fluent, not coherent, not topically relevant — correct in the sense of accurately identifying … Read more
The Panoramic Leader: How Great Leaders See Differently TO make the best decisions, we need to expand our view and think through a wider range of experiences and opinions. See panoramically. Increasing change and complexity require that we get more complete and diverse information and look outside of our usual suspects. We need panoramic intelligence. … Read more
A woman identified as Jane Doe 4 has joined a lawsuit filed by three Tennessee teenagers against Elon Musk’s xAI over the role the company’s chatbot Grok allegedly played in creating child sexual abuse material. According to a report in The Washington Post, the woman alleged that her stepfather used Grok to manipulate a photo … Read more
Anthropic now embeds an invisible watermark into everything Claude writes. The mark is woven into the words themselves, so it survives copy and paste, and it applies in every version of Claude, worldwide. Should you worry? For most marketers, I don’t think so. Meanwhile, AI generation has become a default feature of software marketers open … Read more
PayPal CEO Enrique Lores’ turnaround plan for the fintech company could include a sale — of itself. The prospect first popped in July when Stripe and private equity giant Advent offered to buy PayPal for $60.50 a share in a deal that would have valued it at $53 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported at … Read more
Lead People into Their Power Weak people say, “There’s nothing I can do.” Awaken people to their power. Boldness takes you further than weakness. How to Lead People into Their Power #1. Allow people to influence you. Adapt to other people’s ideas. Seek feedback. How is it working when I …? Ask about the future. “What … Read more