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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.
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.
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.
Anthropic Eyes $900B Valuation in $50B Raise, Topping OpenAI
Anthropic is weighing a $50 billion funding round at a $900 billion valuation that would make it the most valuable AI startup, surpassing OpenAI.
Anthropic's Project Deal: Claude Agents Closed 186 Real Deals
Inside Project Deal — Anthropic's internal experiment where Claude agents traded real goods for real money on behalf of 69 employees.
China Blocks Meta's $2B Acquisition of AI Startup Manus
Beijing's NDRC vetoed Meta's $2 billion takeover of AI agent startup Manus, citing technology transfer concerns and forcing the deal's unwinding.
Anthropic Pledges Claude Stays Ad-Free, Opens Sydney Office for ANZ Push
Anthropic reaffirmed Claude will never run ads and named Theo Hourmouzis to lead its new Sydney office serving Australia and New Zealand customers.
Avoca Hits $1B Valuation With $125M Round to Bring AI to HVAC and Trades
Avoca raised $125M+ at a $1B valuation to scale AI agents that answer calls and book jobs for HVAC, plumbing, and roofing businesses across the US.
AWS Reinvents Amazon Connect as a Four-Vertical Agentic AI Suite
AWS split Amazon Connect into Customer, Decisions, Talent, and Health — and launched Quick, a desktop copilot aimed squarely at Microsoft.
OpenAI Lands on AWS in $38B Deal, Bringing GPT-5.5 to Bedrock
AWS and OpenAI signed a multi-year, $38 billion compute pact and will offer GPT-5.5, Codex, and Managed Agents directly through Amazon Bedrock.
Box Launches Box Automate, Putting AI Agents to Work on Enterprise Invoices
Box unveiled Box Automate on Tuesday — an AI agent platform that handles invoices, contracts, and document workflows inside Box's enterprise content cloud.
ASAPP Adds 5 AI Agents to CXP, Pitching End-to-End Customer Service
ASAPP launches five purpose-built AI agents inside its CXP platform to run enterprise customer service end to end — from intent discovery to optimization.
Anthropic Launches Claude Design, Taking Aim at Figma and Canva
Anthropic's new Claude Design tool turns prompts into interactive prototypes, decks, and one-pagers — powered by Opus 4.7 and aimed squarely at Figma.
Claude Opus 4.7 Hits 87.6% on SWE-bench, Tops Five Major AI Benchmarks
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 leads five frontier benchmarks, jumping 11 points on SWE-bench Pro while keeping the same $5/$25 per million token pricing.
Cursor Targets $50B Valuation in $2B Round After Hitting $2B ARR
AI coding startup Cursor is in talks to raise $2 billion at a $50B valuation, nearly doubling its worth in five months as enterprise revenue surges.
Anthropic Probes Unauthorized Access to Claude Mythos Cyber Model
Anthropic's elite cybersecurity model, locked behind a 50-company firewall, was reportedly accessed by unauthorized users on day one.
Adobe Bets the Brand on Agentic AI With CX Enterprise Coworker
Adobe rebranded Experience Cloud as CX Enterprise and unveiled an AI agent layer that plans, executes, and tracks marketing campaigns end to end.
Anthropic Lands NEC as First Japan Global Partner for Claude
Anthropic and NEC are deploying Claude to 30,000 employees and building industry-specific AI for Japanese banks, factories, and local government.
Anthropic Locks In 3.5 Gigawatts of Google TPUs from Broadcom for 2027
Anthropic's expanded TPU deal with Google and Broadcom brings 3.5GW of compute online in 2027 as the Claude maker hits a $30B revenue run rate.
Anthropic Admits Claude Got Worse: Three Bugs, One Ugly Post-Mortem
Anthropic published a rare post-mortem Thursday confirming Claude Code quality dropped for six weeks. Here's what broke and what they fixed.
ChatGPT and Codex Hit Global Outage as OpenAI Investigates
OpenAI's ChatGPT, Codex, and API platform hit a global partial outage Monday, blocking logins, conversations, and image generation worldwide.