News archive
Page 13 of 17 · 796 stories
- AI News
DeepSeek Seeks $20 Billion in First-Ever Funding Round
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is raising outside capital for the first time, with Tencent and Alibaba in talks at a $20B+ valuation that doubled in 48 hours.
- AI News
DeepSeek V4: Frontier-Level AI at a Fraction of the Price
DeepSeek's V4 preview lands with a 1M-token context window, 1.6T parameters, and pricing that undercuts GPT-5.5 by more than 95%.
- Industry
Merck Commits $1 Billion to Agentic AI with Google Cloud
Merck and Google Cloud announced a $1B multi-year agentic AI partnership covering R&D, manufacturing, and commercial operations using Gemini Enterprise.
- Industry
Meta Cuts 8,000 Jobs to Fund $135B AI Spending Push
Meta axing 10% of its workforce on May 20 to redirect capital toward AI infrastructure, Superintelligence Labs, and Alexandr Wang's AI-first org.
- Product
Snowflake Wants to Be the OS for Your AI Agents
Snowflake expanded Intelligence and Cortex Code on April 21 to serve as a unified control plane for agentic enterprise workflows.
- Product
Google Launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Google unified its AI development stack into one platform at Cloud Next 2026, with agent identity, governance, memory, and a $750M partner fund.
- AI News
OpenAI and Infosys Deploy Codex at Enterprise Scale
Infosys combines OpenAI's Codex with its Topaz Fabric platform to bring AI-powered software modernization to enterprises across 60+ countries.
- Product
OpenAI Launches Workspace Agents for Business Teams
OpenAI launched workspace agents in ChatGPT on April 22, letting business teams build shared, cloud-running AI agents for ongoing workflows.
- AI News
OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 Adds Reasoning to Visual AI
GPT-Image-2 thinks before it draws, integrating web search, layout reasoning, and multi-image consistency into enterprise visual workflows.
- AI News
GPT-5.5: OpenAI's New Model Built for Autonomous Work
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 launched today for paid subscribers. Natively omnimodal, built for agentic workflows, and priced at $5/$30 per million tokens.
- AI News
Salesforce and Google Cloud Unify AI Agent Workflows
New integrations announced April 22 let Agentforce and Gemini Enterprise agents run end-to-end workflows without leaving Slack or Google Workspace.
- Regulation
COPPA AI Rule Takes Effect: What Businesses Must Know
The FTC's updated COPPA rule enters mandatory compliance April 22, requiring separate parental consent before children's data is used for AI training.
- Industry
Cursor Eyes $50B Valuation as Enterprise AI Coding Surges
Cursor is in talks to raise $2 billion at a $50+ billion valuation, nearly double its six-month-old price, as enterprise AI coding adoption surges.
- Research
92% of Businesses Have No Visibility Into Their AI Agents
New research finds most enterprises have no real visibility into what their AI agents are doing or accessing, a governance gap that's widening fast.
- AI News
Google Cloud Next 2026: 200+ Agentic AI Announcements
Google Cloud Next 2026 kicked off in Las Vegas on April 22 with a clear message: AI agents are now the core of enterprise infrastructure.
- Industry
OpenAI Infosys Deal: AI Tools Reach 60+ Countries
OpenAI has teamed up with Infosys to integrate tools including Codex into Infosys' Topaz AI platform, accelerating enterprise deployment in 60+ countries.
- AI News
SAP and Google Cloud Connect Their AI Agents
SAP and Google Cloud announced a partnership at Cloud Next 2026 to deploy multi-agent AI across marketing and CX, linking Joule and Gemini via open protocols.
- Industry
SoundHound Acquires LivePerson: Voice AI Goes Omnichannel
SoundHound AI acquires LivePerson in an all-stock deal, combining voice AI with 1B monthly messages to serve 25 Fortune 100 companies across every channel.
- AI News
Amazon's New $25B Anthropic Bet Reshapes Enterprise AI
Amazon expands its Anthropic investment to $25B more as part of a $100B AWS cloud commitment, making Claude the de facto AI backbone of AWS.
- AI News
Factory AI Raises $150M for Enterprise AI Coding Agents
Factory's Droids platform hit a $1.5B valuation as Nvidia, Adobe, and EY deploy AI coding agents at scale, reshaping enterprise software development.
- Regulation
India Forms National AI Governance Group AIGEG
India's government formed AIGEG on April 16, a high-level inter-ministerial body to coordinate AI policy across its 1.4 billion person economy.
- Industry
Infor and AWS Deploy Agentic AI for Manufacturing
Infor and AWS launched AI agents for manufacturing covering project delivery, margin protection, and operational intelligence at enterprise scale.
- AI News
Self-Learning AI Agents Just Got a $40M Vote of Confidence
NeoCognition emerges from stealth with $40M seed funding to build domain-specialist AI agents that learn the structure of any business environment.
- Research
NVIDIA: 88% of Enterprises Now See Revenue Gains From AI
NVIDIA's State of AI 2026 report of 3,200 businesses finds AI ROI is no longer theoretical. 88% report revenue gains and 87% report cost savings.
- AI News
4-Month-Old Lab Raises $500M to Build Self-Improving AI
Recursive Superintelligence raised $500M from GV and Nvidia at a $4B valuation, betting self-improving AI can remove human researchers from the loop.
- Product
SAP Ships 40+ AI Agents in Q1 as ERP Automation Accelerates
SAP's Q1 2026 highlights: Joule Studio GA, Cash Management Agent saving 80% of manual time, and a new agent-to-agent protocol spanning 35 solutions.
- Product
Adobe Goes All-In on AI Agents With CX Enterprise
Adobe launched CX Enterprise at Summit 2026, an agentic AI platform built on MCP and A2A standards to coordinate multi-agent customer workflows.
- Product
Canva AI 2.0 Brings Agentic Workflows to 265M Users
Canva launched AI 2.0 at Create 2026, transforming its design platform into a conversational, agentic system for end-to-end business workflows.
- AI News
Cerebras Files for IPO as Nvidia Rival Eyes $25B Valuation
The wafer-scale AI chip startup filed its S-1 on April 17 with $510M in 2025 revenue, backed by a $20B+ OpenAI deal and AWS partnership.
- Product
Cloudflare Mesh: Secure Private Networking for AI Agents
Cloudflare's Agents Week 2026 launch solves a real problem: giving AI agents secure access to private networks without VPNs or open firewall rules.
- Research
Stanford AI Index 2026: Agents Hit 66% Task Success
Stanford HAI's 2026 AI Index shows AI agents hit 66% task success on real computer benchmarks, yet enterprise deployment remains in the single digits.
- AI News
World ID 4.0 Launches Human Verification for Enterprise
Sam Altman's World project unveils account-based human verification with Zoom, DocuSign, and Shopify integrations amid AI agent proliferation.
- Product
xAI Enters Enterprise Voice AI With Grok Speech APIs
xAI launched Grok STT and TTS APIs claiming 5% phone call error rate versus ElevenLabs at 12%, targeting enterprise voice builders.
- Industry
AI Agent Reality Check: Why Enterprise Deployments Break
CNBC reports Silicon Valley teams hitting walls with token waste and chaotic dependencies in AI agents that work in demos but fail at enterprise scale.
- AI News
Anthropic CEO Meets White House Over Mythos AI
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to find a path forward on the Mythos AI model.
- AI News
MCP's 'By Design' Flaw Puts 200K AI Servers at Risk
OX Security found an architectural RCE flaw in Anthropic's MCP affecting 150M+ downloads. Anthropic says it's 'by design', leaving enterprises to self-manage.
- Product
Windows 11 Becomes an Agentic OS With Taskbar AI Agents
Microsoft's April 17 Windows 11 build brings AI agents to the taskbar via MCP, letting third-party agents run and report progress directly from the OS.
- Product
OpenAI Launches GPT-Rosalind for Life Sciences
OpenAI's GPT-Rosalind targets drug discovery and genomics research, beating human experts on RNA prediction tasks. What it means for data-driven industries.
- Industry
Physical AI Just Got Its First Unified Warehouse Brain
Skild AI acquires Zebra Technologies' robotics arm. Any robot, any task, one unified brain that is already running warehouses.
- Industry
The AI Power Crisis Stalling Half of US Data Centers
Nearly half of planned US data center builds for 2026 face delays or cancellation due to power grid constraints and supply chain bottlenecks.
- Product
Anthropic Launches Claude Design, Figma Stock Drops 7%
Anthropic's new Claude Design lets anyone create slides, prototypes, and marketing assets using AI. Figma stock dropped 7% on the news.
- Industry
Atlassian to Train AI on Customer Data Starting August 2026
Atlassian updates its data practices to train AI on Jira and Confluence content from August 2026. What businesses need to know before the deadline.
- Product
Mozilla Launches Thunderbolt, Its Privacy-First AI Client
Mozilla's MZLA subsidiary launches Thunderbolt, an open-source self-hosted AI client designed to give businesses full control over their AI deployments.
- Product
OpenAI Cuts Codex to $20/Seat and Adds Pay-As-You-Go
OpenAI restructured Codex pricing with pay-as-you-go seats, cutting ChatGPT Business to $20/seat. Codex users grew 6x since January 2026.
- Product
Salesforce Turns Its Platform Into AI Agent Infrastructure
Salesforce announced Headless 360 at TDX 2026, exposing 100+ new tools and APIs so AI agents can run business workflows without a human interface.
- Industry
TextQL Raises $17M: Blackstone Bets on Natural Language
Blackstone leads a $17M round in TextQL, the platform letting executives query complex enterprise data in plain English without writing SQL.
- Industry
80% of Workers Are Rejecting AI. The Clock Is Running Out.
New data shows most employees are bypassing or actively sabotaging AI rollouts, while companies prepare to lay off non-adopters.
- Product
Claude Opus 4.7 Brings 3x Software Engineering Gains
Claude Opus 4.7 lands with major coding, vision, and reasoning upgrades. Here's what it means for teams building with AI.