Anthropic adds Allianz to growing list of successful companies | TechCrunch

AI research lab Anthropic continues to win significant business deals. The latest involves taking its big language models to an old German insurance giant. Anthropic on Friday announced a deal with Munich-based, Germany-based global insurance conglomerate Allianz to bring “responsible AI” to the insurance industry. The parties declined to share the financial terms of the […]

Housing absorption rate versus market size: Efficiency indicates pressure

The data reflects conditions in the single-family home market as of the January 3, 2026 weekly snapshot, based on proprietary data from HousingWire. Housing markets are often judged by size: total sales, total dollar volume, total number of listings. These metrics describe where activity is concentrated. They do not reliably indicate where competition is increasing, […]

AI can clone your business in 48 hours, but this is what you need to survive

The opinions of contributing entrepreneurs are their own. </p><div> Key Takeaways A strong, memorable domain and a thoughtful customer experience create trust that competitors can’t match. Long-term defensibility comes from relationships, reputation and the small details that make your brand indispensable. The rate of imitation in 2026 is unlike anything we’ve seen before. AI can […]

Ex-Meta AI chief labels new boss ‘young’ and ‘inexperienced’

Meta’s AI shake-up is backfiring, says one of the company’s former leaders. Yann LeCun, Meta’s former chief AI scientist known as a “godfather of AI,” called the company’s new 29-year-old AI boss, Alexandr Wang, “young” and “inexperienced” in an interview with the Financial times. Wang became LeCun’s manager after Meta invested $15 billion in his […]