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Microsoft Confirms Copilot 'Super App' for This Year
Satya Nadella put a timeline on it. Speaking to investors during Microsoft's earnings call on Wednesday, the CEO said the company will launch a Copilot "super app" this year, one that folds chat, coding tools and autonomous agents into a single...
Meta's AI Investments Cut Profit 91% Amid New Data Center Deal
Meta's net income fell 83% in the third quarter, dragged down by a one-time $16 billion tax charge tied to the Trump administration's spending bill, plus the company's continued spending spree on AI infrastructure.
Microsoft marks down OpenAI investment by USD 600 million
Microsoft's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report, covering the period ending June 30, came with a rare side-by-side look at how its two big AI bets are performing.
Zuckerberg Says Personal AI Agents Will Drive Meta's Next Products
Mark Zuckerberg used Meta's Q2 2026 earnings call on Wednesday to lay out where he thinks the company's AI push is headed next: personal agents that act on a user's behalf, not just chatbots that answer questions.
Zuckerberg: Meta to get paid when AI delivers business results
Mark Zuckerberg told investors on Wednesday that Meta's enterprise AI plans go well past the customer-service agent the company launched in June.
Waymo Shifts Focus to AI Evaluations, Testing Models Post-Launch
Waymo has logged more than 220 million fully autonomous miles on public roads, and the company says its cars produce 17 times fewer serious crash injuries than human drivers over the same distance.
Raindrop AI CTO: Agents Need Audit Logs to Fix Critical Issues
Enterprise AI agents can already write code, file tickets, and process transactions without a human clicking a button. What they can't do reliably is prove why they did it, or explain themselves when something breaks.
Target SVP: AI Competitive Advantage Lies Beyond the Models
Siobhán Mc Feeney runs technology strategy at Target as senior vice president, and at VB Transform 2026 she laid out a position that cuts against the current enterprise AI rush.
Anthropic's Mythos Tool Meets Its Hype in Internal Testing
Microsoft's engineers had a problem they weren't used to having: too many bugs, too fast.
Pangram raises USD 9M to detect AI content as Winston AI, GPTZero compete
Pangram, a New York startup, has raised $9 million to build better tools for spotting AI-written text and images. Menlo Ventures led the round, with Haystack, ScOp, Script Capital, and Cadenza also putting in money.
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.
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