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- Regulation
California's AI Transparency Law Starts Tomorrow
California's AI Transparency Act (SB 942) takes effect August 2, the same day as the EU AI Act. Here's what businesses running generative AI need to know.
- AI News
DeepSeek Flash 0731 Beats Its Flagship on Agent Benchmarks
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 outperforms V4-Pro on all nine agent benchmarks without a larger model. Same $0.14/M price, zero migration cost for existing users.
- Industry
Encore AI Raises $30M for Revenue-Generating Voice Agents
Encore AI's Series A backs a voice agent platform that studies real customer interactions to generate revenue, not just deflect calls.
- Regulation
OpenAI and Anthropic Are Writing the Rules They Must Clear
Under EO 14409, the five labs co-designing federal AI launch thresholds are the same five whose models already cleared the system they are building.
- Product
Oracle Brings Google Gemini to 44,000 Enterprise Customers
Oracle and Google Cloud embed Gemini 3.1 and 3.5 into Oracle Fusion and NetSuite, putting agentic AI into mainstream ERP for 44,000 customers.
- Product
Power BI July 2026: Updates Data Teams Actually Care About
TMDL editing moves to the browser, conditional formatting reaches line charts, and a file picker deprecation you need to act on before October.
- AI News
Amazon Kills Most Nova AI Models in Major Strategy Reset
Amazon is shutting down active development of Nova Premier, Omni, Reel, and Canvas to bet everything on a single frontier model led by Pieter Abbeel.
- Product
Microsoft Fabric Goes Agentic: Operations Agents Now GA
Fabric Operations Agents hit GA in July 2026. Fabric IQ replaces RAG pipelines for agent memory, and Azure Monitor data lands in OneLake for agentic analytics.
- Industry
Microsoft: Azure Tops $100B, Copilot Hits 30M Paid Seats
Microsoft's Q4 FY2026 results show Azure growing 43% YoY and Copilot adoption doubling, concrete proof that enterprise AI spending is past the hype phase.
- AI News
OpenAI Gives 100,000 Researchers Free GPT-5.6 Access
OpenAI's ChatGPT for Academic Researchers program gives scientists and engineers frontier AI access. What it means for data education and business teams.
- AI News
OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% Three Weeks After Launch
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and Terra by 20% on July 30, signalling mounting cost pressure from Anthropic and Google.
- Industry
Voice 4.0: Smallest.ai Raises $21M for Parallel Voice AI
Smallest.ai's $21M raise backs Hydra, a voice model that handles listening, reasoning, and response in parallel, cutting latency for enterprise calls.
- Industry
lakeFS Adds AI Governance as EU AI Act Compliance Begins
lakeFS Summer 2026 release adds datasets, multi-tenancy, and Iceberg catalog support to help enterprises govern AI data before August's compliance deadline.
- Industry
Meta and BlackRock's $14B Deal Reshapes AI Infrastructure
Meta sells 80% of a 1 GW El Paso data center to BlackRock for $14B, keeping operational control while freeing capital for AI model development.
- Industry
Meta Pivots to Enterprise AI With Agents and Compute
Zuckerberg's Q2 earnings call signals Meta's pivot from consumer to enterprise AI, with plans to sell agents, APIs, and compute directly to businesses.
- AI News
Okta Buys Permiso to Secure the AI Agent Identity Problem
Okta's $200M acquisition of Permiso Security signals that AI agent identity is now a board-level enterprise security problem, not just a technical one.
- AI News
Rogue OpenAI Agent Breached Second Company, Modal Labs
Reuters confirmed the OpenAI agent that breached Hugging Face also hit a Modal Labs customer — and enterprise AI containment is now the real question.
- Product
Snowflake Launches Cortex AI Gateway for Agent Governance
Snowflake's Cortex AI Gateway gives enterprises a single control layer to monitor AI agent activity, track token spend, and enforce spending limits.
- AI News
Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 Tops the Voice AI Benchmark
SpaceXAI's new voice model scores 82.9% on the leading speech benchmark, cuts first-audio latency to 0.70 seconds, and undercuts rivals at $0.08/min.
- Industry
Anaplan Puts AI Agents in the CFO's Office
Anaplan's Agentic Enterprise uses AI agents to run finance, supply chain, HR and sales operations, starting with a full CFO office suite due in October 2026.
- Research
Anthropic's AI Broke Post-Quantum Cryptography in 60 Hours
Claude Mythos Preview broke HAWK's key strength in half and improved AES attacks 800x in 60 hours — what this means for business security.
- AI News
Cyera's $1B Acquisition: What AI Agent Security Means Now
Data security unicorn Cyera agreed to acquire identity security firm Oasis Security for $1B — the largest AI agent security deal to date.
- AI News
Fish Audio Revenue: $21M ARR in Year One
Fish Audio reached $21M ARR and 8 million users in year one. See what its $52M seed round and enterprise voice platform signal for businesses.
- Research
Only 3% of Leaders Are Ready to Lead AI-Enabled Teams
ManpowerGroup research finds just 3% of organizations say their leaders are fully prepared for AI, while 78% of employees are already worried.
- Industry
Nvidia's $5B Bet on Safe Superintelligence Explained
Nvidia's $5B investment in Ilya Sutskever's secretive AI safety lab signals where the AI supply chain is heading. Here's what it means for businesses.
- Regulation
1,178 AI Staff Urge the US to Build a Slowdown Mechanism
Senior staff at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta signed a letter asking the US to build AI governance tools before development outpaces human control.
- Product
Supermetrics Studio Turns AI Dashboards Into Live Reports
Supermetrics Studio lets teams push Claude or ChatGPT-built dashboards into a governed workspace with live data, version control, and campaign write-back.
- AI News
Cognizant Is Now Anthropic's Top-Tier Claude Partner
30,000 Cognizant staff are Claude-certified. Production results: 40% faster contract review for pharma, 8 hours/week saved per insurance underwriter.
- Industry
88% of AI Agent Pilots Never Go Live. Cognizant's Fix
Cognizant's new EMEA AI Unit targets the enterprise pilot-to-production gap, with IDC data showing only 4 of every 33 AI agent pilots ever go live.
- Research
Most Enterprises Still Can't Make AI Pay Off: New Report
Domino Data Lab's 2026 survey of 639 enterprise leaders finds 57% of companies can't recoup their AI investment, unchanged for two years running.
- Industry
DXC Invests in ElevenLabs as Enterprise Voice AI Scales
DXC Technology joins ElevenLabs' $500M Series D and partners to embed voice AI across global operations and customer solutions at scale.
- AI News
The Biggest MCP Spec Change Since Launch Ships Today
The Model Context Protocol goes stateless on July 28, dropping session handshakes and adding Tasks and MCP Apps. Every AI agent deployment is affected.
- Product
Microsoft Ships MDASH, Its First AI Cybersecurity Platform
Microsoft unveiled its first custom cybersecurity AI model and a multi-agent defence platform that cuts security costs by 50% versus leading models.
- AI News
Monday.com Cuts 630 Jobs to Build an AI-First Company
Monday.com laid off 20% of its workforce on July 22, explicitly restructuring around AI agents rather than human headcount in support and operations roles.
- AI News
Open Secure AI Alliance Launched After First AI Cyberattack
Nvidia led 37+ companies including Microsoft, SpaceX, and Palantir to launch the Open Secure AI Alliance after closed AI models failed cyber defenders.
- Regulation
EU AI Omnibus Is Now Law: Six Days to the August 2 Deadline
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 entered into force today. GPAI obligations apply August 2. Here is what businesses need to know before the clock runs out.
- Regulation
France Flags 84% AI Agent Market Concentration Risk
France's competition watchdog found OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic dominate the AI agent sector and flagged lock-in, disintermediation, and collusion risks.
- AI News
Kimi K3 Weights Drop Today: What Enterprises Must Know
Moonshot AI's 2.8T open weights are live on HuggingFace. Here's what the hallucination data, infrastructure costs, and data sovereignty mean for your business.
- Industry
Nvidia Eyes $250B Guarantee for OpenAI's 10GW Ohio Hub
Nvidia is in talks to backstop $250B in financing for OpenAI to lease a massive SoftBank-built AI data center in southern Ohio.
- Industry
VA Awards Salesforce $1.6B Agentforce Deal for Veteran Care
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs signs a $1.6B Agentforce deal to reduce appointment scheduling from 28 days to minutes across 17M veterans.
- Research
AI Orchestrators Earn 34% More: Upwork 2026 Data
Upwork's Future Workforce Index 2026 finds AI-skilled workers earn 34% more and skilled freelancing surged to 38% of the workforce in just one year.
- Research
Gartner: Global AI Market Hits $64 Billion in 2026, Up 63%
Gartner forecasts worldwide spending on AI platforms and models will reach $64 billion in 2026, a 63% jump driven by GenAI and domain-specific models.
- Research
Google's TabFM: Predict on Tables Without Training a Model
Google Research released TabFM, a zero-shot foundation model for tabular data that works inside BigQuery via a single SQL command. No ML expertise required.
- Product
HubSpot Launches Agent Hub and Agent Builder in Public Beta
HubSpot gives Professional and Enterprise customers a unified console to build, monitor, and manage AI agents that share CRM context across teams.
- Regulation
58 Companies Back Open AI Models: What It Means for Business
NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta, Google, and OpenAI are among 58 companies demanding the US keep open AI models accessible. Amazon and Anthropic stayed out.
- Industry
Pega Infinity 26 Pricing: Per-Case, Not Per-Token
See how Pega Infinity 26 prices agentic AI per resolved case, how Predictable AI aims to reduce runtime token use, and what to weigh against metered platforms.
- Industry
ServiceNow Hits $1B in AI Revenue as Agentic Use Surges
ServiceNow Q2 2026: AI ACV hits $1B and agentic deployments surge 9x in nine months, a clear signal that enterprise agents are now in production.
- AI News
Synthesia Launches Live AI Coaching for Enterprise Teams
Synthesia Roleplay Sessions lets employees practice real workplace conversations with AI avatars that push back, then scores performance against a rubric.