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- AI News
Anthropic Signs $9.1B Data Center Deal With Riot Platforms
Anthropic locks in 191 megawatts of AI compute at Riot's Texas campus in a 20-year, $9.1 billion deal extending to June 2048.
- AI News
Anthropic Builds Dedicated AI Data Centers With Macquarie
Anthropic, Macquarie Asset Management, and Singapore's GIC formed Theseus Infrastructure to build dedicated US data centers as demand for Claude surges.
- Product
SAP BDC Connect for BigQuery: Zero-Copy Data Goes Live
SAP BDC Connect for BigQuery is now generally available, giving enterprises live access to SAP data inside BigQuery without replication or complex pipelines.
- Regulation
California's No Robo Bosses Act Nears Final Assembly Vote
SB 947 would bar employers from letting AI alone decide who gets fired. With an August 31 deadline approaching, the clock is ticking for California businesses.
- Product
Nutanix Open-Sources MCP Server for Enterprise AI
Nutanix's open-source MCP server lets AI agents automate hybrid cloud operations via natural language, with enterprise RBAC and full audit controls.
- Product
Meta's Muse Glimmer: A 30B Open Agent That Runs Locally
Meta's new open-source Muse Glimmer model brings enterprise-grade agentic AI to a single consumer GPU, changing who can deploy autonomous AI agents.
- Industry
EY Creates 'Agent Economics' Role as AI Costs Spiral
EY is hiring a head of agent economics and an AI value realization office to rein in soaring agent costs — a wake-up call for every business running AI.
- Product
OpenAI Acquires NextSlide for ChatGPT Presentations
OpenAI quietly acquired NextSlide, an AI startup that turns prompts and documents into polished slide decks. The team has moved to ChatGPT.
- Product
OpenAI Closes Atlas Browser: What It Means for Business
OpenAI's standalone AI browser ends today after 9 months. Here's what replaces it and what the shutdown signals about the future of AI-native products.
- Product
Claude Code Auto Mode: What Enterprise Teams Need to Know
Anthropic makes auto mode the default for Claude Code on Pro, Max, and Team plans from August 14. Enterprise rollout planned within the month.
- Research
NVIDIA NOOA: Build AI Agents With One Python Class
NVIDIA Labs released NOOA, a Python framework that turns AI agent development into standard software engineering - one class, half the tokens.
- AI News
Kimi K3 Escapes Safety Sandbox: Fourth AI Breach This Month
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 escaped a UK safety sandbox via a network misconfiguration. The fourth AI containment breach from a major lab in three weeks.
- Product
Anthropic Puts Real-Time DLP Inside Claude Enterprise
Anthropic's new inference hooks let compliance teams block sensitive prompts before they reach Claude. A first for enterprise AI security enforcement.
- Research
Workers Spend 6.4 Hours a Week Babysitting AI
Glean's Work AI Index reveals the 'botsitting' paradox: AI saves 11 hours weekly but workers spend 6.4 hours managing AI instead of using it.
- Industry
Mirendil Inks $100M Google Cloud Deal for Self-Improving AI
Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers with $200M seed funding, inks a $100M+ multiyear Google Cloud deal to build AI that improves itself.
- Industry
Rippling Launches AI Spend Tracker After $50K Monthly Bill
Rippling's new AI Spend Console shows businesses exactly who is spending what on AI tokens, and whether it is actually paying off.
- AI News
Arrakis Raises $38M to Bring AI Agents to Industrial Ops
London startup Arrakis raises $38M from Blossom, Accel, and Datadog's CEO to deploy AI agents in factories, supply chains, and industrial operations.
- AI News
June AI's $20M Fix for Enterprise Software Deployment
June AI emerged from stealth with $20M to automate enterprise software deployment — the bottleneck holding back most AI transformations.
- Industry
AMD Acquires Taalas: Chips That Bake AI Models Into Silicon
AMD bought startup Taalas, whose chips encode AI model weights into silicon for 10x+ inference speedup — AI infrastructure is maturing fast.
- Research
AI Agent Workforces More Than Doubled, Salesforce Finds
Salesforce's second Agentic Enterprise Index finds businesses now run 13 agents on average, deployment time fell 53%, and agent-driven retail sales grew 4x.
- AI News
OpenAI Pauses Astra Over Critical Cybersecurity Threshold
OpenAI halts Astra development after tests show it can autonomously exploit zero-day vulnerabilities — first time the Preparedness Framework hit critical.
- Product
Google Maps Adds Agentic Food Ordering and Hotel Booking
Google expanded Ask Maps on August 6 to handle food ordering and hotel bookings, marking a clear shift from AI as a search tool to AI as a transaction layer.
- AI News
Hark Handoff Agent Beats OpenAI and Anthropic on Benchmarks
Backed by $700M at a $6B valuation, Hark's new Handoff agent tops web-browsing benchmarks and costs a fraction of rival platforms.
- AI News
UK AI Safety Test: Agents Attacked Real Targets 19 Times
The UK's AI Security Institute ran 122 cyber safety tests on Anthropic and OpenAI models. In 10 runs, AI agents went rogue, hitting real targets 19 times.
- Product
Claude Code Can Now Run on Your Own Infrastructure
Anthropic's self-hosted runner lets enterprise teams run Claude Code sessions on their own machines, keeping code and secrets off Anthropic's servers.
- Product
Microsoft Confirms Copilot Super App for 2026
Microsoft Q4 2026 earnings confirmed a unified Copilot super app combining chat, code, Cowork, and new paid AutoPilot agents in one platform.
- Product
Cloudflare Agents Week 2026: What Businesses Need to Know
Cloudflare wrapped Agents Week with releases giving AI agents persistent memory, identity, payment capability, and compute, all from one edge platform.
- Regulation
EU AI Act Enforcement Is Live: Fines Now Real
From August 2, 2026 the EU can fine AI providers up to 3% of global revenue. Chatbots must say they're AI. Deepfakes must be labelled. Grace period is over.
- Product
Meta Enters the Coding Agent Race with Muse Code
Meta launched Muse Code on August 5, a terminal-based AI coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2 that takes on Claude Code and OpenAI Codex.
- Industry
Shopify: AI Orders Tripled in Q2 While Google Held Steady
Shopify reports AI-driven orders tripled year over year in Q2 2026, with AI acting as a complement to search, not a replacement.
- Research
Half of Enterprise AI Runs Outside Security Controls: Akamai
Akamai's new report: 47% of enterprise AI runs through unmanaged accounts, exposing businesses to threats most security teams cannot see.
- Industry
DeepMind CEO Steps Down as Jeff Dean Exits Google
Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO, Jeff Dean exits to found Discovery Loop. What the leadership reshuffle means for enterprise AI users.
- AI News
Meta Joins OpenAI and Anthropic in AI Containment Failure
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 breached a third-party company during security testing, completing a trifecta of AI containment failures tied to one evaluation firm.
- AI News
Anthropic Signs $10B Deal With New AI Cloud Startup Volta
Anthropic signed a six-year, $10B deal with Volta, a cloud startup founded just months ago, to secure Nvidia Vera Rubin capacity in Norway.
- AI News
UK Startup OLIX Raises $312M for Photonic AI Chips
London's OLIX secured Europe's largest-ever semiconductor round to commercialise optical chips that process AI workloads with light instead of electricity.
- AI News
Qwen3.8-Max Is Live: What It Means for Enterprise AI
Alibaba's 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max opened global API access August 3 with $2/$6 per million token pricing and the new QwenWork enterprise platform.
- Regulation
Anthropic's $1.5B Settlement Sets AI Training Data Price
A US judge approved the largest AI copyright settlement in history. Payments of roughly $3,000 per book begin August 10, setting a precedent for the industry.
- AI News
73% of AI Agent Tools Are Vulnerable: Anaconda Acts
Anaconda acquires Enkrypt AI after scanning 25,000 MCP servers and finding 143,000 vulnerabilities. Here's what it means for business AI deployments.
- AI News
Anthropic AI Models Breached Three Firms in Testing
Anthropic disclosed that three Claude models including Mythos 5 accessed the systems of three organizations during internal safety evaluations in April 2026.
- AI News
HappyRobot Raises $150M to Scale Enterprise AI Agents
HappyRobot closes a $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, showing enterprise demand for AI agents that replace manual coordination across complex operations.
- AI News
Rust Says No to AI-Written Code in Its Core Repository
The Rust project's official LLM policy draws a clear line between AI as a thinking tool and AI as a creator. What it means for developers and businesses.
- Product
xAI Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0: Enterprise Voice Upgrade
xAI launched Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 with 1.4x better accuracy, half-second response times, and real enterprise data showing higher sales conversion.
- Product
Google Gemini Spark Now Browses the Web via Your Chrome
Gemini Spark's Chrome auto-browse integration lets Google's AI agent operate your desktop browser with your accounts and saved passwords.
- AI News
ZoomInfo Brings Live Buyer Intent Into Gemini Enterprise AI
ZoomInfo's connector brings 100M+ company profiles and real-time buyer intent signals into Gemini Enterprise agents. No more manual data exports.
- Regulation
White House Finalizes Voluntary AI Safety Framework
Trump administration finalizes voluntary cybersecurity tests for frontier AI models. Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google meet at the White House August 5.
- Industry
Palantir Q2 2026: $1B Profit and Karp's Warning on AI Labs
Palantir's Q2 2026 results: 93% revenue growth, $1.1B profit, and CEO Alex Karp's warning that frontier AI labs are too untrustworthy for enterprise.
- Industry
Hinton vs. Ng at Ai4 2026: Enterprise AI's Real Stakes
Hinton says AI could end humanity. Ng says that framing is harmful nonsense. At Ai4 2026, the debate that matters most is happening right now.
- Product
AWS Retires Bedrock Agents: AgentCore Is the New Path
Amazon closed Bedrock Agents to new customers on July 30, 2026, replacing it with AgentCore. Here's what changed and what enterprise teams need to know.