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- AI News
Amazon Kills Rufus, Launches Alexa for Shopping
Amazon replaced Rufus with Alexa for Shopping, an AI agent that doesn't just answer questions, it compares products and schedules purchases.
- Product
Anthropic Brings Claude Into Small Business Workflows
Anthropic's new Claude for Small Business connects directly to QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, and four other tools with no extra cost beyond existing licenses.
- AI News
Anthropic Passes OpenAI in Business AI Adoption
Ramp's April 2026 AI Index shows Anthropic at 34.4% business adoption vs OpenAI's 32.3%, driven almost entirely by Claude Code.
- Research
73% of Executives Say Their AI Investments Aren't Paying Off
G-P's 2026 AI at Work report finds three-quarters of executives disappointed with AI returns, and nearly 70% ready to cut spending.
- AI News
IBM's Forward Deployed Units Bring AI Agents to Enterprises
IBM Consulting's new FDU model pairs human experts with specialized AI agents in a single pod, delivering enterprise AI outcomes at scale.
- AI News
Notion Turns Its Workspace Into an AI Agent Control Room
Notion's new Developer Platform with Workers, External Agents API, and CLI lets teams run AI agents directly inside their workspace.
- Product
Notion Becomes an AI Agent Hub After 1 Million Agents Built
Notion's new Developer Platform adds Workers, Database Sync, and an External Agents API, turning everyday workspaces into AI orchestration hubs.
- Research
Two Thirds of Enterprises Suspect AI Agent Data Overreach
New Akeyless research finds most enterprises can't tell what their AI agents are doing with data , and it's costing them over $1M a year to find out.
- AI News
Exaforce Raises $125M for AI-Native Security Operations
Exaforce closed a $125M Series B at $725M valuation for its Exabots AI agents that investigate and respond to security threats at machine speed.
- Research
Gartner: Data Governance Is AI's Single Point of Failure
Gartner's London data summit wrapped today with a pointed message for 3,000 CDAOs: poor data governance will be the primary reason AI investments fail.
- Product
SAP Bets on 50+ AI Agents and Claude at Sapphire 2026
SAP unveiled the Autonomous Enterprise at Sapphire 2026 with 50+ Joule agents and Claude integration. Here's what it means for enterprise ERP and AI adoption.
- Research
74% of Enterprises Have Already Rolled Back Their AI Agents
New Sinch research reveals most enterprises are pulling AI agents from production, not because deployment is hard, but because staying live is.
- Industry
Vapi Raises $50M as Voice AI Hits 1 Billion Calls
Voice AI startup Vapi secures $50M Series B at $500M valuation after Amazon Ring chose it over 40 rivals to handle all inbound customer calls.
- Research
How Anthropic Fixed Claude's 96% Blackmail Rate
New Anthropic research reveals Claude Opus 4 attempted to blackmail engineers in stress tests, tracing the cause to AI fiction in training data.
- Research
Gartner: AI Marketing Automation Will Double by 2028
Gartner's May 2026 survey finds marketing leaders expect AI to handle 36% of work by 2028, up from just 16% today. What this means for your business.
- AI News
OpenAI Launches $4B Deployment Company for Business
OpenAI's new professional services arm, backed by TPG, McKinsey, Bain, and Capgemini, will embed AI engineers directly inside businesses.
- Research
AI Agents Can Now Hack and Self-Replicate Across Networks
Palisade Research shows frontier AI agents independently exploiting vulnerabilities and copying themselves across machines, with success rates hitting 81%.
- Research
Gartner: Only 30% of CMOs Are Ready to Scale Their AI Spend
Gartner's 2026 CMO Spend Survey finds marketing leaders allocate 15.3% of budgets to AI, yet a vast readiness gap threatens returns.
- Product
Gemini Flash-Lite Goes GA With 60% Enterprise Cost Cuts
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite hits GA with 60% cost cuts, sub-second latency, and production-grade reliability for enterprise agent workloads.
- Industry
Nvidia Commits $40 Billion to AI Equity Deals in 2026
In four months, Nvidia topped $40B in AI equity bets, $30B to OpenAI alone. What this tells businesses about where the AI supply chain is heading.
- Industry
PayPal Cuts 20% of Workforce to Fund an AI Overhaul
New CEO Enrique Lores announced 4,760 job cuts on the Q1 earnings call, calling it part of PayPal 'becoming a technology company again.'
- Regulation
AI Is Now on the Trump-Xi Summit Agenda
The US and China will hold formal AI discussions at their Beijing summit this week, a first with real implications for enterprise AI strategy.
- Regulation
Connecticut Passes Its Most Comprehensive AI Law
Connecticut's SB5 sailed through its legislature with near-unanimous support. What the law requires, and what it means for every employer using AI.
- Research
Enterprise AI Token Costs Drop 67% Year Over Year
New data from 2.4 billion API calls shows enterprise AI costs dropped from $18.40 to $6.07 per million tokens, with open-source models now at 38% of volume.
- Research
Gartner: AI Layoffs Free Up Budget But Don't Deliver Returns
New Gartner research finds 80% of enterprises cut staff for AI, yet ROI doesn't follow. The companies winning are amplifying people, not replacing them.
- Research
1 in 6 Workers Use AI Daily, but the Adoption Gap Widens
Microsoft's Q1 2026 AI Diffusion Report finds global AI adoption at 17.8%, but the spread between leading and trailing economies is widening fast.
- Industry
SAP Acquires Dremio and Prior Labs to Power Agentic AI
SAP's double acquisition targets the fragmented data that stalls most enterprise AI projects before they start.
- AI News
ServiceNow Adds Kill Switch to AI Agent Control Tower
At Knowledge 2026, ServiceNow revealed its AI Control Tower now includes real-time kill switches to stop rogue agents before they cause irreversible damage.
- AI News
Anthropic Signs $1.8 Billion Computing Deal With Akamai
Anthropic locked in a seven-year, $1.8B infrastructure deal with Akamai, the biggest in Akamai's history, as Claude demand hits record highs.
- Product
Anthropic Adds Self-Verification to Managed Agents
Anthropic's new Outcomes and Multiagent Orchestration features let agents verify their own work and coordinate specialist teams, both now in public beta.
- Industry
Cloudflare Lays Off 1,100 While AI Drives Record Revenue
Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs, its first mass layoff in 16 years, while hitting record Q1 revenue of $639.8M. CEO cites 600% AI usage surge inside the company.
- Research
Only 15% of Enterprises Are Ready for Agentic AI
Fivetran's 2026 readiness index finds only 15% of organisations are fully prepared for agentic AI, even as 41% have already deployed agents in production.
- Product
Aircall Acquires Vogent to Build Production-Grade Voice AI
Aircall buys Vogent to close the gap between voice AI demos and real business calls, and what this M&A move tells us about where the market is heading.
- AI News
Anthropic Gets 220k SpaceX GPUs, Lifts Claude Rate Limits
Anthropic secures all compute at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center (220k Nvidia GPUs, 300MW capacity) and lifts rate limits for paid Claude subscribers.
- Industry
Cognizant Launches Secure AI Services for Agentic Enterprise
Cognizant's new offering shifts from assumed trust to provable trust: continuous security for enterprise agentic systems at build and run time.
- Research
OpenAI Data: Frontier Firms Now Use 3.5x More AI Per Worker
OpenAI's B2B Signals data shows frontier firms use 3.5x more AI per worker than typical companies, up from 2x a year ago. The gap is widening fast.
- Product
OpenAI GPT-Realtime-2 Brings GPT-5 Reasoning to Voice AI
OpenAI released three new realtime voice models today, bringing GPT-5-class reasoning into live voice interactions for the first time.
- Industry
The Enterprise AI Pilot Trap: ServiceNow and Accenture's Fix
Only 32% of enterprises report sustained AI impact. A new forward deployed engineering model aims to fix the pilot-to-production gap.
- AI News
Anthropic CEO: We Planned for 10x Growth. We Got 80x.
Dario Amodei revealed that Anthropic's compute crunch isn't a supply failure: it's proof enterprise AI demand has broken all forecasts.
- Product
Anthropic Teaches Claude Agents to 'Dream' and Self-Improve
Anthropic's new dreaming feature lets Claude agents review past sessions, consolidate memory, and get smarter over time. Now in research preview.
- AI News
DeepSeek Nears $45B Valuation in China-Led Funding Round
DeepSeek is in talks to raise its first venture capital at a $45B valuation, more than double the $20B figure floated just weeks ago.
- Regulation
EU AI Act Sets December 2026 AI Content Deadline
A second EU AI Act agreement extends compliance relief to mid-sized companies and sets a hard December 2 deadline for AI-generated content labelling.
- Industry
OpenAI and PwC Launch AI-Native Finance Function
OpenAI and PwC are deploying AI agents across core CFO workflows, from procurement to forecasting, with real results already in production.
- Product
Tableau Next Turns Business Intelligence Into Agentic AI
Salesforce launched Tableau Next at TC26, replacing static dashboards with AI agents that surface insights before you know to ask.
- Product
SoundHound's OASYS: AI Agents That Fix Themselves
SoundHound's new OASYS platform manages the full AI agent lifecycle, creating, orchestrating, and autonomously improving agents without constant human upkeep.
- Regulation
White House Eyes Mandatory AI Model Vetting, FDA-Style
Kevin Hassett says the administration is studying an executive order that would require all AI companies to pass security checks before releasing new models.
- AI News
IBM Consulting Launches Context Studio for AI Agents
IBM expands Enterprise Advantage with Context Studio and Process Studio, SAP A2A interop, and FedRAMP clearance at Think 2026 in Boston.
- AI News
IBM Drops an AI Operating Model Blueprint at Think 2026
IBM unveiled Context Studio, Process Studio, and next-gen watsonx Orchestrate at Think 2026, giving enterprises a concrete blueprint for multi-agent AI.