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Investors Lack Clear Data on Corporate AI Use, Study Finds
Wall Street can't get a straight answer on what AI is actually doing to corporate balance sheets, and that gap is starting to worry the people writing the checks.
Instacart built an AI system trained on years of its own incident data
Instacart's engineers have stopped reading most of their own code. CTO Anirban Kundu told the audience at VB Transform 2026 that in 97% of cases, the company's builders no longer look at what AI agents generate.
Anthropic CEO: Open-weight AI models carry heightened biological risks
Dario Amodei published a blog post this week walking a line he's tried to hold for months: open-weight AI models aren't inherently bad, but the powerful ones scare him.
NVIDIA Jetson Puts Powerful AI Compute in Your Hand
Sarah Guo carries a handbag that happens to contain a robot brain. The founder of Conviction, an AI-focused venture capital firm, and co-host of the podcast No Priors recently used her platform to point at something smaller than a wallet: NVIDIA's...
Perplexity’s Personal Computer Turns Windows PCs Into AI Agents
Perplexity is bringing its AI agent tool to the operating system most office workers actually use.
Fish Audio raises USD 50M seed for AI voice tools targeting creators and enterprises
Fish Audio has closed a $50 million seed round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, with 359 Capital, Parable, Play Time, Alphalist Partners, Bayhouse Ventures, Carya Venture Partners, and HF0 also putting in money.
Snowflake's USD 1.33 Billion Revenue Day Included Smaller AI Deal
Snowflake rolled out Cortex AI Gateway on Tuesday, a new control layer meant to govern what AI agents can touch once they're inside a company's systems.
Nadella: Companies betting on single AI model risk failure
Satya Nadella isn't backing off his warning to corporate America. Appearing on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" Sunday, the Microsoft CEO expanded on comments he made earlier this month about the risks of leaning too hard on outside AI providers.
Anthropic's Amodei: Open-weight models less concerning than Chinese AI threat
Dario Amodei spent Monday afternoon trying to kill a rumor. The Anthropic CEO published a blog post pushing back on chatter across the AI industry that his company had quietly backed U.S.
Nonprofit Avoids AI Funding to Preserve Independence
Ryan Carrier founded ForHumanity in 2016 after watching Facebook's algorithms rattle US elections, a Microsoft chatbot claim the Holocaust "was made up," and Tesla's Autopilot kill its first driver.
Microsoft Cybersecurity AI Claims 96% Success Rate in Internal Tests
Microsoft says its new security model scored 96% on CyberGym, a benchmark that tests how well AI systems reason over large codebases to spot real vulnerabilities.
Sutskever's AI startup partners with Nvidia for scaling
Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence has struck a multibillion-dollar deal with Nvidia, according to a source familiar with the matter, marking the first major public move from a company that has spent two years building in near-total silence.
SAP Brings Governance and Security to Enterprise AI Agents
Most enterprise chatbots can answer questions. Few can actually run a business process without a human checking their work at every step.
Monday.com joins 20 tech firms citing AI in workforce reductions
Monday.com told the SEC on Wednesday that it's cutting about 20% of its staff, just over 600 people, folding the move into what it calls a "restructuring plan" built around a "leaner, more focused operating model" and an "AI-driven growth strategy."...
OpenAI's Micro keypad: A coder's tool that mystifies others
OpenAI shipped its first hardware product last week, and it's not the sleek voice gadget everyone expected. It's a keypad.
Anthropic Launches Opus 5 AI Model, Completes Series Update
Anthropic rolled out Opus 5 on Friday, closing out the company's rapid-fire rebuild of its entire model lineup.
Prentis, AI lab from Hoffman and Pincus, in talks to raise USD 100M
Prentis is barely seven months old and already talking to investors about a $1 billion valuation.
Hoffman, Pincus AI lab Prentis in talks to raise USD 100 million
Prentis, an AI research lab launched in April, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
Box AI security concerns slow enterprise adoption of agentic tools
Box's latest enterprise survey landed this week with a number that should worry anyone selling agentic AI: security concerns are now the top reason companies are slow-walking adoption. That caution isn't coming from nowhere.
Cognition Buys Poke, an AI Agent for iMessage and SMS
Cognition, the AI coding startup behind Devin, has acquired The Interaction Company of California, the maker of Poke, in a deal valuing the smaller company in the "low nine figures." Poke built its name as a text-based AI assistant that users...
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