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Salesforce unveils Agentforce Operations to streamline enterprise AI workflows
Processes built on human intuition are failing machines. For years, enterprise workflows evolved like organic systems, full of implicit handoffs, unspoken rules, and decisions made by whoever happened to know the next step.
Scout AI raises USD 100 million to train war models, joins Field and Overland AI
One hundred million dollars is a serious bet on one very specific idea: that the future of warfare is a truck with no driver. Scout AI just raised that sum to build the software that will make military supply convoys autonomous.
Satya Nadella says Microsoft will exploit royalty‑free OpenAI model through 2032
Microsoft has secured a deal that sounds almost too good to be true. Satya Nadella confirmed this week that the company can use OpenAI’s most advanced models, including its agent products, without paying a dime in royalties through 2032.
Google CEO: Users love AI Overviews, but compute shortage caps revenue
Google Cloud’s quarterly revenue finally crossed the $20 billion mark. That’s a staggering number. It’s also a cap: CEO Sundar Pichai states point-blank that a compute shortage held back even more sales.
Salesforce crowdsources AI roadmap, using fast code pushes and customer feedback
Salesforce is rewriting the playbook for AI development. Not in a boardroom, not through a proprietary research lab, but in weekly face-to-face meetings with customers.
Legora valued at USD 5.6 B, lists Bird & Bird, Cleary Gottlieb, Linklaters
Legora just closed a funding sprint that should leave rivals winded. In four weeks, it hauled in $550 million. Then it tacked on another $50 million.
Pentagon signs AI contracts with Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS after Anthropic dispute
The Pentagon’s new supplier list is a who’s who of American tech power. Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and a smaller firm called Reflection AI can now plug their artificial intelligence directly into the military’s classified systems.
GPT-5.5 scores 71.4% on expert cybersecurity tasks, edging Mythos Preview's 68.6%
For a little over two dollars, you can now rent a mind that builds a disassembler from scratch. This changes everything.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman head to court in legal fight over OpenAI’s future
Two billionaires who hate each other are now paying lawyers to settle it in a San Francisco courtroom. Elon Musk wants a judge and jury to conclude that Sam Altman stole a charity. The price tag for this alleged theft is $130 billion.
AI tracks surge on streaming services, says Deezer researcher Manuel Moussa
You can find a new song on a streaming service every 20 seconds. Roughly half the time now, it wasn’t written by a person. It was generated by a machine.
Eight tech giants sign Pentagon AI contracts; Anthropic warns of legal loopholes
The Pentagon just locked in its roster. Eight companies—SpaceX, Oracle, and six other tech titans—now hold contracts to weave artificial intelligence directly into the U.S. military’s most secret networks.
Anthropic could secure USD 900 billion-plus valuation in two‑week round, sources say
That $900 billion figure is real. Investors have forty-eight hours to place their bets on just how real it will become. According to sources, Anthropic is compressing the process into a brutal, two-week sprint to raise roughly $50 billion.
xAI releases Grok 4.3 with low price and fast voice‑cloning suite
The price of a stolen voice just hit rock bottom. Buried in xAI's Grok 4.3 announcement was a jaw-dropper: three dollars an hour. That flat rate buys a clone of a person's entire delivery—the cadence of a podcast host, the helpful lilt of a rep.
Musk vs. Altman trial begins as DOJ cuts voting‑rights unit, AI job panic examined
The legal showdown hits an Oakland federal courtroom today. Elon Musk is suing Sam Altman’s OpenAI. His core allegation is brutally specific: he claims he was tricked.
Anthropic eyes USD 40‑USD 50B funding round, USD 900B valuation decision in May
Next month, Anthropic's board gathers. They must choose. Walk away, or accept a staggering sum—up to $50 billion in new investment. That cash, according to sources, would value the maker of the Claude assistant near $900 billion.
AWS teams with OpenAI, saying AI agents need secure access to code and data
Every cloud company sells security. Amazon Web Services just started selling its absence. AWS now claims its machines running OpenAI's most advanced models are built to be unseeable. No employee can ever log in. No operator can ever touch them.
Hybrid retrieval intent triples as retrieval optimization jumps to 28.9%
Corporate AI projects have hit a wall. It's the plumbing. For months, the goal was to make AI responses more accurate. Teams poured money into testing and evaluation. That was January. By March, priorities snapped.
SenseTime launches fast image model; 10 Chinese chip makers back U1 hardware
SenseTime built its empire on faces. Now it's after everything else. The Chinese AI giant just launched a new model, U1, with a stark claim: it generates and understands images far faster than leading U.S. offerings.
Musk says 'Agree on all' to Altman's USD 100M ask and USD 30M add‑on
Elon Musk’s reply was just nine words. “Agree on all,” he wrote to Sam Altman in October 2015, authorizing a $130 million commitment to OpenAI.
Poolside's free Laguna XS.2 scores 30.1% on Terminal‑Bench 2.0, edging Haiku 4.5
Poolside dropped Laguna XS.2 on Tuesday—a free model packing just 3 billion active parameters. Its score? A 30.1% on Terminal-Bench 2.0. That’s a hair above Claude Haiku 4.5’s 29.8%.
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