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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.
- Product
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.
- Product
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.
- Product
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.
- Product
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.
- Product
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 Watsonx Orchestrate Agent Catalog With 150+ Agents
See IBM's watsonx Orchestrate production release and its 150-plus agent catalog, including connectors, cross-platform support and governance.
- 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 for Customer Service Agents
Sierra raised $950 million in Series E funding at a valuation above $15 billion. See what its customer agents do and why nearly half the Fortune 50 use them.
- 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.