January 18, 2026

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Gruve.ai promises software-like margins for AI tech consulting, disrupting decades-old Industry

Companies of all sizes are recognizing the game-changing possibilities of AI. Despite the excitement about the new technology, most of their pilot projects don’t make it into production. Gruve.ai, a startup founded by the team behind Rahi Systems…

It’s not just hype, corporate America is making huge bets on AI transforming their businesses

There’s an all-out race to leverage AI to add more utility and value to products, and to reap a portion of the resulting demand in AI-powered products and services.

It’s not just hype, corporate America is making huge bets on AI transforming their businesses by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Accenture to cut 19,000 jobs

Tech consultancy giant Accenture plans to cut 19,000 jobs, or 2.5% of its workforce, and has lowered its annual revenue and profit forecasts, becoming the latest behemoth to trim expenses in the wake of dwindling global economic conditions. The reduction in jobs, over half of which affects individuals in non-billable corporate functions, will be undertaken […]

Accenture to cut 19,000 jobs by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Stenn banks $50M on a $900M valuation for a platform to finance SMBs that trade internationally

Globalization has been one of the biggest trends in e-commerce in the last decade: internet rails facilitate a much wider marketplace of would-be consumers and a selection of items for them to buy; and to meet that demand manufacturing and logistics have also made great geographical leaps. Now, a startup that’s built a platform to […]

Stenn banks $50M on a $900M valuation for a platform to finance SMBs that trade internationally

Globalization has been one of the biggest trends in e-commerce in the last decade: internet rails facilitate a much wider marketplace of would-be consumers and a selection of items for them to buy; and to meet that demand manufacturing and logistics have also made great geographical leaps. Now, a startup that’s built a platform to […]

Austin’s Will Hurley on the city’s incredible tech rise

Laura Lorek Contributor Share on Twitter Laura Lorek has lived in the Austin area since 2000, where she’s been writing about established companies like Dell, NI, IBM, Apple, Oracle, Google, Meta and tech startups like Opcity, now Realtor.com, Homeaway, now VRBO, RetailMeNot, Indeed.com, Homeward, OJO Labs and others. She also covers consumer packaged goods startups, […]

Google, Databricks, Fivetran, Redis and others launch the Data Cloud Alliance

There’s a new alliance in town: the Data Cloud Alliance. Founded by Google Cloud, Accenture, Confluent, Databricks, Dataiku, Deloitte, Elastic, Fivetran, MongoDB, Neo4j, Redis and Starburst, the group’s mission is to “make data more portable and accessible across disparate business systems, platforms, and environments—with a goal of ensuring that access to data is never a […]

Google, Databricks, Fivetran, Redis and others launch the Data Cloud Alliance

There’s a new alliance in town: the Data Cloud Alliance. Founded by Google Cloud, Accenture, Confluent, Databricks, Dataiku, Deloitte, Elastic, Fivetran, MongoDB, Neo4j, Redis and Starburst, the group’s mission is to “make data more portable and accessible across disparate business systems, platforms, and environments—with a goal of ensuring that access to data is never a […]