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Anthropic ships Claude Tag, a Slack-native virtual employee for enterprises
The bot already approves 65% of code changes inside Anthropic's product team and targets Salesforce's Slackbot head-on.
Anthropic puts Claude inside Slack as an always-on teammate
Claude Tag enters research preview for Enterprise and Team customers, with persistent memory across channels and an ambient mode that speaks up unprompted.
Midjourney's medical pivot: a water-tank ultrasound scanner radiologists call unproven
The image-generation startup says its 60-second submerged scan rivals MRI. Imaging specialists say the claims are wildly unsubstantiated.
Fika Jobs raises $4M to put AI interviewers between candidates and employers
The Stockholm startup pairs Gemini-powered video interviews with TikTok-style profiles, charging 10% of first-year salary on a hire.
Nvidia launches Agent Toolkit to anchor enterprise specialized AI builds
An open stack of models, tools, skills and a secure runtime aimed at digital coworkers — with Cadence, CrowdStrike, SAP and Siemens already on board.
Nvidia pushes telecom toward autonomous networks with new AI agent stack
At DTW Ignite 2026 in Copenhagen, Nvidia unveiled NemoClaw, OpenShell and synthetic-data tools with SoftBank, Amdocs, NTT DATA and ServiceNow on board.
Qualcomm nears deal to acquire AI chip startup Modular
The talks would hand Qualcomm a compiler stack built to abstract away CUDA, the linchpin of Nvidia's AI moat.
Groq raises $650M and rebuilds executive bench after Nvidia's $20B licensing deal
Six months after Nvidia licensed Groq's chip IP and hired away its CEO, the inference startup is pivoting to a 13-data-center cloud business.
Google DeepMind invests $75M in A24 to build AI filmmaking tools
The indie studio behind Marty Supreme and Backrooms will co-develop AI features with DeepMind, joining Netflix and Amazon MGM in Hollywood's AI race.
SpaceX signs $6.3B compute deal with open-source lab Reflection AI
Reflection becomes the third AI lab to rent GB300 chips from SpaceX's Colossus 2 site, joining Anthropic and Google.
Amazon opens Alexa+ beta in India with Hindi support
The generative-AI assistant heads to a market of 600M Hindi speakers, with code-mixed Hindi-English handling as the technical test.
Eco Wave Power taps NVIDIA AI to run data centers on ocean waves
The Israeli startup is piloting wave-powered compute at the Port of Los Angeles, with NVIDIA Omniverse digital twins managing the load.
Samsung Electronics deploys ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to global workforce
One of OpenAI's largest enterprise rollouts puts ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex in the hands of Samsung Electronics employees worldwide.
Anthropic's Trump-administration crackdown is turning into a marketing tailwind
The export-control order pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline, but past clashes drove Claude downloads up — and rivals are watching.
Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic
The AlphaFold co-creator is the highest-profile science hire Anthropic has landed from a rival frontier lab.
Trump says he viewed Anthropic as a national security threat last week
The president told Axios that relations with the AI lab have since improved, after weeks of export controls and Pentagon supply-chain scrutiny.
Amazon MGM drops Luca Guadagnino's Sam Altman film Artificial
The studio is shopping the OpenAI drama to a new distributor, days before its reported release window.
Anthropic's federal ban is becoming a marketing asset
Cybersecurity researchers signed an open letter calling the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 pull dangerous, and the noise is lifting Anthropic's profile.
Reliance launches Jio Call Agent, pushes AI into 500M phone lines
Mukesh Ambani is wiring AI into Jio's telecom network, the MyJio app, and a new home display ahead of Jio Platforms' IPO.
Smartbird, the AI company formerly known as Allbirds, names Nadia Carlsten CEO
The shoe brand sold its footwear business for $43M and raised $100M to become an AI infrastructure provider with no team yet.
US tells ASML an EUV machine may be in China. ASML says no
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has pressed ASML executives over alleged EUV shipments to China. The company says every machine is accounted for.
Barret Zoph exits OpenAI five months after returning from Thinking Machines
The head of enterprise AI sales is out again after a January return; he had been leading OpenAI's enterprise push ahead of a planned IPO.
Taiwan plans $6.6B drone buildout, eyes US military as export market
A six-year defense budget would buy 208,000 coastal attack drones while Taiwanese firms court Pentagon contracts and Ukraine supply chains.
Elastic agrees to buy DeductiveAI for up to $85M in AI SRE land grab
The two-year-old startup hit roughly $1M ARR before the deal — a fast exit in a sector where Resolve AI just hit a $1.5B valuation.
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