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Anthropic, the AI safety company backed by Amazon and Google, is reportedly eyeing an IPO that could value it at one hundred billion dollars. That would make it one of the largest public offerings in recent memory, and a signal of just how much capital is chasing the AI frontier right now — though whether that valuation reflects reality or expectation is very much an open question.
Meanwhile, the gap between AI promises and AI paychecks is showing up in the enterprise world. A TD Cowen survey of Salesforce partners found that two years into the launch of Agentforce, the company's AI agent platform, partners are seeing little to no meaningful revenue from it. It's a reminder that selling a vision and delivering a business model are two very different things.
And shifting from software to the skies — researchers and airlines are taking a closer look at contrail-free flight paths as a legitimate climate intervention. Aviation contrails trap heat in the atmosphere, and new modeling suggests that rerouting even a fraction of flights could meaningfully reduce that effect, without waiting for new aircraft or new fuels.
That's where the world stands today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
