AI & Enterprise
OpenAI Deployment Company to acquire Northslope, boost FDE staffing
OpenAI Deployment Company has agreed to acquire applied AI company Northslope, Axios reported on Tuesday. Northslope is the second company OpenAI Deployment Company has acquired since launching in May, as it targets the enterprise agentic AI market. The acquisition will expand its field-deployed engineer workforce by several hundred to build AI systems alongside customers inside their organisations. Axios also said Anthropic has set up an AI services company to help mid-sized firms use Claude.