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The latest developments, breakthroughs, and analysis from the world of artificial intelligence.
Coinbase Cuts 14% of Staff, Bets on AI-Native Pods and Player-Coaches
Coinbase is laying off about 700 people and rebuilding around AI-native pods, capping management layers, and turning every leader into an IC.
IBM Think 2026: Context Studio Goes Live, Process Studio Coming
At Think 2026, IBM rolled out Context Studio and previewed Process Studio — new tools to help enterprises build AI agents grounded in their own data.
IREN to Buy Mirantis for $625M, Deepening AI Cloud Software Stack
IREN is acquiring Mirantis in a $625M all-stock deal to add Kubernetes orchestration and enterprise AI cloud delivery on top of its GPU infrastructure.
JPMorgan Reclassifies AI as Core Infrastructure in $19.8B Tech Budget
JPMorgan's 2026 tech budget hits $19.8 billion as the bank reclassifies AI from R&D to core infrastructure and targets $2.5B in annual AI value.
ServiceNow and Accenture Launch FDE Program to Scale Agentic AI
ServiceNow and Accenture's new forward deployed engineering program embeds AI-native engineers inside customer environments to push agentic AI from pilot to production.
ServiceNow and NVIDIA Launch Project Arc Desktop AI Agent
ServiceNow's new Project Arc desktop agent runs inside NVIDIA OpenShell, a sandboxed runtime that lets autonomous agents execute multi-step work with full audit trails.
Voxpopme Launches Compass, an AI Research Agent for Enterprises
Voxpopme's new Compass agent searches existing research, surfaces insights, flags gaps, and autonomously launches new studies — turning research libraries into action.
Anthropic Launches 10 Wall Street Agents, Adds Microsoft 365 Tie-In
Anthropic ships ten finance-specific Claude agents, full Microsoft 365 integration, and a Moody's data partnership. Jamie Dimon endorses the push.
Anthropic Commits $200B to Google Cloud and Chips Over Five Years
Anthropic has agreed to spend $200 billion with Google Cloud over five years, accounting for over 40% of Google's cloud revenue backlog.
Anthropic and OpenAI Launch Rival Enterprise AI Ventures
Both AI giants partner with Wall Street to deploy AI across hundreds of companies, raising $11.5B combined.
Microsoft, Google, xAI Will Give US Early Access to AI Models
Three of America's largest AI developers will share unreleased models with the Commerce Department for national security reviews.
Norway Joins US-Led Pax Silica AI Supply Chain Coalition
Norway becomes the 15th member of Pax Silica, bringing its sovereign wealth fund and critical minerals to the AI supply chain alliance.
How OpenAI Built Voice AI That Feels Instant
OpenAI reveals the WebRTC architecture powering real-time voice for 900M+ users with minimal latency.
OpenAI Reveals How It Delivers Voice AI to 900 Million Users
OpenAI details the WebRTC infrastructure overhaul behind ChatGPT voice mode, serving 900M weekly active users with low-latency audio.
SAP Acquires Prior Labs and Dremio in €1B Enterprise AI Push
SAP bets big on tabular AI with Prior Labs acquisition and €1B investment to crack enterprise structured data.
Saperly Launches as the First Phone Carrier Built for AI Agents
Saperly gives AI agents their own phone numbers for calling and texting, with MCP compatibility and built-in compliance.
Sierra Raises $950M at $15.8B Valuation as AI Agents Scale
Bret Taylor's Sierra hit $150M ARR in eight quarters and has 40% of the Fortune 50 deploying its AI customer agents.
xAI Launches Grok Connectors for GitHub, Notion, and More
Grok now integrates directly with GitHub, Notion, Linear, Google, and Microsoft apps — plus custom MCP connectors.
Mistral Medium 3.5 Hits 77.6% on SWE-Bench, Adds Cloud Coding Agents
Mistral's new 128B flagship folds chat, reasoning, and code into one model and ships remote coding agents in Vibe plus Work mode in Le Chat.
Parag Agrawal's Parallel Hits $2B Valuation, Builds Web Layer for AI
Sequoia leads a $100M Series B in Parallel Web Systems — the AI-agent web infrastructure startup founded by ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.
Reflection AI Lands Pentagon Deal, Plans Open Frontier Model in 2026
Reflection AI — the only newcomer on the Pentagon's classified-AI list — is building a frontier model on tens of trillions of tokens to challenge DeepSeek.
Salesforce Launches Agentforce Operations to Automate Back-Office Work
Salesforce's new Agentforce Operations targets manual workflows like data validation, compliance checks, and approvals — generally available now.
China Blocks Meta's $2B Manus Acquisition, Citing AI Tech Concerns
China ordered Meta and Manus to withdraw their $2 billion deal, calling it a 'conspiratorial' attempt to hollow out the country's AI tech base.
Chinese Court Bars Firing Workers Solely to Replace Them With AI
A Hangzhou court ruled it illegal to dismiss a tech worker just because AI could do the job — a landmark labor decision with global implications.