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What if Tony Hawk and Bam Margera were dropped back into the 2006 stock-trading boom?
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What if Tony Hawk and Bam Margera were dropped back into the 2006 stock-trading boom?
Episode 1 is live now:
https://tonystockprotrader.com
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New transaction data from 70,000+ businesses shows who's winning the AI vendor race, how much heavy adopters are spending, and what AI is doing to headcount
Key findings:
More at the link!!
While data through Q2 shows tepid growth for OpenAI vs. Anthropic, Q3 to date shows that OpenAI has surpassed Anthropic in QoQ enterprise growth: 82 vs. 76%!
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This month, we saw continued growth in model serving / routers as more firms shift spend to cost-saving + open source AI.
A few underrated areas of growth: a lot of competition for AI customer service / sales / voice agents, and seemingly no clear winner in this category given how many different competitors show up on this list month-over-month.
Plus, 9% of firms are using AI to generate images and video for marketing and advertising.
That's about half the adoption rate of Figma, and growing quickly.
These features, like chat and agent subscriptions, can be billed as seat-based, tier-based, or consumption-based (think: metered API usage). Seat-based billing still dominates, even for embedded AI products.
More from Leading Indicators here
1. ElevenLabs scales with Ramp. ElevenLabs built its finance infrastructure before it needed it, and Ramp has supported its expansion to seven legal entities, 50+ countries, and a new AI-token spend category. Learn more about this customer story here!
3. August AI Index. Our latest Index earned Chart of the Week status in Reuters’ AI newsletter, featuring Ara's analysis of the growing opportunity for American AI model makers. See the index and read the Reuters coverage!
AI was supposed to eliminate entry-level jobs. But when we tracked 22,000 businesses before and after they adopted AI, we found something more complicated: the companies using AI most intensively grew headcount 10% over two years. Entry-level headcount grew 12%. Ramp Lead Economist Ara Kharazian breaks down what the data shows and how it affects you.
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San Francisco (SFO) pairings saw the biggest surges, led by the Seattle (SEA) and SFO pairing, up 41%. The median price for the 2-hour-ish flight was $637. The LAX-SFO pairing wasn’t far behind, up 36% to $374.