Cloudflare announced a 20% workforce reduction affecting 1,100 employees, marking its first mass layoff in 16 years, while simultaneously reporting record quarterly revenue of $639.8 million. CEO Matthew Prince attribute...
Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, raised $100 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation led by Sequoia, just five months after its Series A. The startup provides web search and research...
Industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that OpenAI is developing a smartphone in collaboration with MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Luxshare, potentially replacing traditional apps with AI agents. The device would be designed to...
Anthropic conducted an experimental marketplace called Project Deal where AI agents autonomously negotiated and completed real purchases on behalf of 69 employees using $100 budgets. The experiment revealed that users re...
Google announced it will integrate Gemini AI-powered "auto browse" agentic capabilities into Chrome for enterprise users, enabling the AI to perform tasks like booking travel, data entry, and meeting scheduling across br...
Google announced its Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at the Cloud Next conference, a tool designed for building and managing AI agents at enterprise scale, positioning it as a competitor to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and...
NeoCognition, a startup spun out from Ohio State University, has emerged from stealth with $40 million in seed funding to build AI agents that can autonomously learn and specialize in any domain, similar to human learnin...
Microsoft is developing an OpenClaw-like agent that would integrate with Microsoft 365 Copilot, featuring enhanced security controls for enterprise customers. Unlike its existing cloud-based agents (Copilot Cowork and Co...
Sierra, led by CEO Bret Taylor, has launched Ghostwriter, an AI agent that creates other specialized agents through natural language prompts, aiming to replace traditional click-based software interfaces. The startup cla...
Matei Zaharia, Databricks co-founder and CTO, received the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing for his contributions including Apache Spark. He controversially claims that AGI is "here already" but argues we shouldn't apply huma...
