Budgets, unit economics and the P&L side of AI. AI Business coverage from Fathom Tech.
As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google release new capabilities every few months, AI startups face an existential question: what happens when the product you spent a year building becomes part of the platform itself? A TechCrunch Disrupt session explores where defensibility still exists.
As AI tools become commoditized and widely available, the companies that will dominate are those that can integrate AI into their core business operations and workflows. The next phase of competition is about execution, not tool availability.
Research from Deloitte and Teradata reveals a massive gap between AI agent pilots and production deployments. While 78% of enterprises run agent pilots, only 14% have scaled them across the organization—a failure rooted not in model capability but in operational readiness.
As AI applications introduce unpredictable behavior into enterprise systems, observability platforms are evolving from problem detection to operational action, with Dynatrace's acquisition of Arize AI bringing AI evaluation and agent monitoring into its broader platform.