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Krisp VIVA 2.0 Fixes Voice AI's Production Problem
Krisp launched VIVA 2.0 on May 6: voice infrastructure for AI agents that fixes the noise, turn-taking, and interruption problems that kill voice AI demos.
- Regulation
Big Tech Lets US Government Test AI Models Before Launch
Microsoft, Google, and xAI signed agreements giving US officials early access to frontier AI models for national security evaluation before public release.
- Research
Microsoft: Only 19% of Companies Are Actually Winning at AI
Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index finds a widening gap between Frontier Firms leading on AI and the majority still stuck at the individual-tool stage.
- Regulation
Voice Actors Head to DC as AI Job Losses Hit 21 Percent
NAVA is pushing federal AI legislation as 21% of voice actors report losing work to AI, up from 14% last year. Here's what businesses need to know.
- AI News
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant Cuts Hallucinations by 52%
OpenAI replaced ChatGPT's default model with GPT-5.5 Instant on May 5, cutting hallucinations by 52.5% and adding memory source transparency.
- AI News
ServiceNow Tackles AI Agent Governance at Enterprise Scale
ServiceNow's Autonomous Security & Risk platform unifies AI agent, identity, and asset governance, resolving security incidents 7x faster at Knowledge 2026.
- AI News
ServiceNow and NVIDIA Put an AI Agent on Every Desktop
Project Arc is an enterprise desktop AI agent secured by NVIDIA OpenShell and governed by ServiceNow AI Control Tower, announced at Knowledge 2026.
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Twilio Launches Unified Conversation Layer at SIGNAL 2026
Twilio debuts four GA platform capabilities at SIGNAL 2026 to connect AI and human agents across every channel in a persistent, contextual conversation layer.
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Yellow.ai Nexus Vox Unifies Enterprise Voice AI
Yellow.ai's Nexus Vox unifies speech, conversation, and voice output in one runtime, delivering sub-400ms response times and 10-second voice cloning at scale.
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AWS Splits Amazon Connect Into Four Agentic AI Products
Amazon Connect expands from a single contact center tool into four purpose-built agentic AI solutions covering supply chain, hiring, CX, and healthcare.
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Anthropic Launches 10 AI Agents for Financial Services
Anthropic released 10 pre-built AI agents for banking, insurance, and asset management, plus full Microsoft 365 integration and a Moody's data partnership.
- AI News
ElevenLabs Crosses $500M ARR as Voice AI Goes Enterprise
ElevenLabs CEO confirms crossing $500M in annual recurring revenue, with new enterprise contracts at Deutsche Telekom, Revolut, and Klarna.
- Regulation
Five Eyes Agencies Issue First Joint AI Agent Security Rules
CISA, NSA, and allies from Australia, UK, Canada, and NZ publish guidance on the risks every enterprise faces as AI agents take over real business tasks.
- AI News
IBM Think 2026: Watsonx Orchestrate GA and Agent Catalog
IBM brings watsonx Orchestrate to full production and unveils a 150+ agent catalog at Think 2026, signaling the end of the AI pilot era for enterprises.
- AI News
OpenAI and Anthropic Launch Enterprise AI Ventures
Both AI labs partnered with private equity on May 4 to create dedicated enterprise deployment arms, raising a combined $5.5 billion.
- AI News
ServiceNow Knowledge 2026: AI Workers Replace IT Tickets
ServiceNow opens Knowledge 2026 today with Jensen Huang, the Australia platform GA, and the first out-of-the-box AI specialist that does your IT support.
- AI News
Sierra Raises $950M as Enterprise AI Agents Go Mainstream
Bret Taylor's Sierra secures nearly $1B in Series E funding with $150M ARR and adoption by nearly half the Fortune 50 for AI customer agents.
- AI News
Anthropic and OpenAI Are Now Competing With Consultants
Anthropic formed a $1.5B joint venture with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs. OpenAI is doing the same. AI labs are going direct to businesses.
- Regulation
Colorado's AI Compromise Bill Could Set a National Pattern
Colorado's SB189 replaces its controversial AI Act with a simpler transparency framework. What the shift means for businesses using AI in key decisions.
- Research
78% of Leaders Can't Prove Their AI Is Working
Grant Thornton survey of 950 leaders finds a widening gap between AI investment and the ability to prove it's governed and delivering results.
- Research
IBM Study: 76% of Companies Now Have a Chief AI Officer
IBM surveyed 2,000 CEOs across 33 countries. The findings reveal a wholesale restructuring of how companies are organized around AI.
- Product
Microsoft Agent 365 GA: Enterprise AI Agent Governance
Microsoft Agent 365 hit general availability May 1. It's a $15/user/month control plane for discovering, governing, and securing every AI agent in your stack.
- Industry
Pentagon Clears 8 AI Companies for Classified Networks
The DoD cleared AWS, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, SpaceX, Oracle, and Reflection AI for IL6/IL7 classified deployments, excluding Anthropic.
- AI News
SoftBank's Roze: $100B Bet on Robot-Built AI Data Centers
SoftBank's new venture Roze plans to automate data center construction using robotics and is already targeting a $100B US IPO in 2026.
- Regulation
The Oscars Drew a Line on AI. Businesses Are Next.
The Academy's new Human Contribution Statement is the first major industry standard for documenting AI versus human work. Other industries will follow.
- AI News
Anthropic Eyes UK Startup Fractile for Inference Chips
The Information reports Anthropic is exploring a fourth chip supplier with Fractile's SRAM-based design that claims 25x faster inference at one-tenth the cost.
- Product
AWS Kills Amazon Q Developer, Pushes Enterprises to Kiro
Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins reach end-of-support April 2027. AWS is steering developers to Kiro, its agentic IDE built on spec-driven development.
- AI News
Google: Prompt Injection Attacks on AI Agents Are Real
Google documented a 32% rise in malicious prompt injection attacks on AI agents, including hidden PayPal instructions embedded in ordinary web pages.
- Industry
Meta Beat Earnings by a Mile. Then the Stock Fell 7%.
Meta reported $56B in revenue and $26.8B profit in Q1 2026, then raised AI spending to $145B. Investors sold. Here's what that tells business owners.
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Microsoft Agent 365 GA: Unified AI Agent Governance Arrives
Microsoft's AI governance platform hits GA on May 1, adding local agent controls for Windows endpoints, multicloud imports, and a shadow AI dashboard.
- Product
Mistral Medium 3.5 Brings Agentic Work Mode to Enterprise
Mistral's 128B open-weight model and Le Chat's new Work Mode bring async multi-step task execution to enterprise workflows, with full audit trails.
- Industry
Uber's AI Budget Gone in Four Months. Claude Code Did It.
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga confirms AI tools exhausted the company's annual budget by April, with Claude Code adoption at 84% of 5,000 engineers.
- Product
xAI Launches Voice Cloning API and Grok 4.3 at 40% Off
xAI released Grok 4.3 and a custom voice cloning API on April 30: 80+ voices, 28 languages, under-2-minute clone creation, 40% cheaper than Grok 4.
- Regulation
DOJ Joins xAI's Lawsuit Against Colorado's AI Law
The Trump Justice Department intervened to challenge Colorado's algorithmic discrimination law, marking the first federal move to block state AI regulation.
- Research
Gartner Identifies Six Steps to Manage AI Agent Sprawl
Gartner warns only 13% of companies have proper AI agent governance as the firm predicts Fortune 500 firms will run 150,000 agents by 2028.
- Product
Mistral Workflows: Enterprise AI Out of Pilot Purgatory
Mistral's new orchestration layer, built on Temporal's durable execution engine, is already running millions of daily executions for major enterprises.
- AI News
OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber Rolls Out to Critical Defenders
OpenAI released a restricted GPT-5.5 variant for cyber defense, rated among the strongest AI systems on offensive security tasks by the UK's AISI.
- Product
OpenAI Launches Workspace Agents for Enterprise Teams
OpenAI's Codex-powered workspace agents replace Custom GPTs with cloud-running, team-shared automation that integrates with Slack and Salesforce.
- Product
Salesforce Agentforce Operations: AI for the Back Office
Salesforce's new product turns manual back-office workflows into AI agent tasks, claiming 50-70% cycle time reductions and 80% less manual data entry.
- Industry
Voice AI Drives Twilio's Fastest Growth in Three Years
Twilio's Q1 2026 revenue hit $1.41B, up 20% YoY, as voice AI demand sent shares 18% higher and prompted raised full-year guidance.
- AI News
Enterprise AI Agents That Act Without Being Asked
Writer's new event-based triggers let AI agents monitor Gmail, Slack, and Gong and kick off work autonomously. No human prompt needed to start the process.
- AI News
Anthropic Eyes $900B Valuation, Topping OpenAI
Anthropic is weighing a $50B pre-IPO raise at over $900B valuation, which would make it more valuable than OpenAI. Here's what that signals.
- Product
Anthropic Opens Claude Security to All Enterprise Customers
Anthropic's Claude Security beta lets enterprise teams scan full codebases for vulnerabilities using AI that reasons like a human security researcher.
- AI News
Big Tech Is Spending $700B on AI Infrastructure
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta are collectively committing nearly $700B to AI infrastructure this year. Here's what it signals for every business.
- Product
IBM Bob: AI Development Partner for the Enterprise
IBM released Bob globally on April 28, routing AI coding tasks across Claude, Mistral, and Granite to cut development cycles and slash modernization costs.
- AI News
Meta Business AI Hits 10M Weekly Conversations, Up 10x
Meta revealed its AI tools on WhatsApp and Messenger now handle 10M business conversations per week, growing 10x since January 2026.
- Industry
Microsoft Copilot Reaches 20M Paid Enterprise Seats
Microsoft reports 20 million paid Copilot seats from its Q3 earnings call, a signal that AI at work has crossed from early adopter to enterprise standard.
- Regulation
Pentagon Clears 8 AI Firms for Classified Networks
DoD formalises classified AI partnerships with Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, AWS, SpaceX, Reflection, and Oracle, while Anthropic remains excluded.