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Asana acquired StackAI for 75 million dollars to own the agent execution layer connecting AI to enterprise ERP, CRM, and IT service systems.


AI was named in 38,579 US job cuts in May 2026, about 40% of the total and the highest monthly figure on record, topping all other layoff reasons.


IBM and Google Cloud launch a Google Cloud Practice with thousands of certified consultants and Gemini agents, a multi-billion enterprise AI bet.


Generalist AI raised 400M at a 2B valuation from Radical Ventures and Nvidia to build foundation models that run any robot, not one machine.


Harness raised 240M led by Goldman Sachs at a 5.5B valuation to automate the testing, security, and deployment work AI coding tools ignore.


OpenAI Codex Sites lets ChatGPT Business teams build and deploy internal web apps from one prompt, turning a chat plan into an app platform.


Microsoft Intelligent Terminal launches as an open-source AI agent shell backing Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini, taking on Warp for developers in 2026.


Microsoft Agent Store pays developers an 85 percent revenue share, triple the Apple and Google cut, to win the AI agent race inside 400M Windows seats.


Microsoft Polaris replaces GPT-4 Turbo as the default GitHub Copilot model in August 2026, running on in-house Maia chips and cutting OpenAI reliance.


Meta launched an agentic AI assistant at its London Conversations event that books appointments and closes sales across WhatsApp and Instagram.


Town raised a $55M Series A led by a16z to build an AI chief of staff that learns your email, calendar, and Slack with no setup or prompting.


Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC, targeting an October IPO at a $965B valuation that tops OpenAI on a $47B run-rate.


CrowdStrike beat Q1 estimates with $1.39 billion revenue and record cash flow, but in-line guidance and a 4-for-1 split sent the shares down 13%.


Broadcom AI chip revenue surged 143% to $10.8 billion in fiscal Q2 2026 and Q3 guidance points to $16 billion, yet the stock still fell on the news.


Marvell stock jumped 32.5% to a record high after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called it the next trillion dollar company at Computex 2026 in Taipei.


Amazon opens its AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant to outside retailers, with Kate Spade first to deploy a gift concierge built on Bedrock AgentCore.


Walmart caps employee tokens on its Code Puppy AI agent as adoption outpaces returns, with 40% of firms reporting under 10% savings.


Meta launches Meta One Plus at $7.99 and Premium at $19.99 a month, undercutting ChatGPT Plus and Google AI Pro in the consumer AI race.


Focused Energy raised a record 240 million dollar Series A for laser fusion as AI power demand turns utilities into fusion energy backers.


SoftBank will invest up to 75 billion euros to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centers in France by 2031, its largest European infrastructure bet ever.


The EU sovereignty package would bar US clouds from sensitive public data and triple data center capacity, targeting 80 percent foreign tech reliance.


Meta formed an Enterprise Solutions unit and a business agent, embedding forward-deployed engineers in client firms to drive corporate AI adoption.


UBTECH built a chip JV with MetaX and Zhejiang Fenglong to make embodied edge AI processors for humanoid robots, eyeing 10,000 units in 2026.


Orbital raised $50M led by Plural with Nvidia backing to scale Orb, an AI model that simulates 100,000 atoms on one GPU and designs new materials fast.


Sysdig documented the first autonomous AI agent intrusion in the wild, an LLM that breached a Python notebook and stole an AWS database in under an hour.


Cognition raised $1B at a $26B valuation as Devin revenue jumped 13x to a $492M run rate, with 89 percent of its own code now written by its AI agent.


Nvidia began shipping Spectrum-X co-packaged optics switches that move 409.6 Tb/s and cut AI data center networking power up to 3.5x, available in H2 2026.


Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at Build 2026, an Android platform for enterprise devices that run AI agents instead of apps, piloted by CVS and Target.


DARPA and NSF launched AI Forge on June 1 to fund 15 national security AI problems in interpretability, control, and adversarial robustness.


Arpio raised $15M led by S3 Ventures and Paladin Capital to scale its AI-native cloud recovery platform across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.


Uncover raised $16M led by Cloud9 Capital to scale its AI marketing mix modeling platform, already profitable with clients like Unilever and Reckitt.


Terra AI raised $20M led by Khosla Ventures and BHP Ventures to scale generative geological modeling for critical mineral and energy exploration.


Japan Airlines deployed Unitree humanoids at Haneda for about $15,400 per unit on a three-year deal, a price that brings practical humanoids mainstream.


Sunday Robotics raised $165M Series B at a $1.15B valuation for Memo, a household humanoid built to do laundry, clear tables, and wash dishes by late 2026.


Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash scores 76.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, the first Flash-tier model to beat its own Pro tier on coding and agentic tasks.


Humans& raised $480M at a $4.48B valuation, the second-largest seed ever, betting a human-centric AI lab can rival OpenAI on talent alone.


Exa raised $250M at a $2.2B valuation to build the search and retrieval layer that AI agents depend on, tripling its worth in seven months.


Meta has repeatedly delayed its Muse Spark API, the developer gateway to its next AI model, as rivals OpenAI and Anthropic ship live and pull ahead.


Forage raised $40M led by Mouro Capital at a $225M valuation to run SNAP, WIC, and HSA payments across 100,000 stores like Dollar General.


Oxford Quantum Circuits raised £260M ($350M) in Europe's largest private quantum round, led by Bullhound Capital with a £100M state bank anchor.


AlphaSense raised $350M at a $7.5B valuation, nearly double its prior mark, and crossed $600M ARR as 7,000 enterprises adopt its AI research.


Figure raised over 1 billion at a 39 billion valuation, and its humanoid robots are really a data play to build the first physical AI foundation model.


Chapter raised a 100 million Series E at a 3 billion valuation, tripling Medicare revenue on flat headcount as AI rewires senior financial services.


ServiceNow Action Fabric makes every external AI agent pay to reach enterprise data and workflows, turning rival agents into recurring ServiceNow revenue.


Nvidia is attacking the $200 billion CPU market with its Vera server chip and RTX Spark PC superchip, taking direct aim at Intel and AMD in 2026.


Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H at a $965 billion valuation as its run rate hit $47 billion, overtaking OpenAI as the top AI startup.


OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, the AI red-teaming platform used by 25% of the Fortune 500, and folding it into its Frontier enterprise platform.


Google Gemini won Apple's $1B per year deal to power a rebuilt Siri on 1.4 billion iPhones, with a custom 1.2 trillion parameter model on Apple servers.


Qualcomm lands a ByteDance deal to supply millions of custom AI ASICs for Doubao, its biggest AI win yet and a direct challenge to Nvidia data centers.


SAP Joule Studio 2.0 ships 50 Joule Assistants and 200+ specialized agents across finance, supply chain, and HR, rolling out to customers in June 2026.


OpenAI launched a $14B deployment unit backed by TPG, Bain, and Brookfield and is acquiring Tomoro to embed engineers inside large enterprises.


Foundation Future Industries won $24M in Pentagon contracts and sent Phantom humanoid robots into Ukraine, the first humanoids in a live combat zone.


NewLimit raised $435M led by Founders Fund and tripled its valuation to $3.1B, taking an epigenetic age-reversal drug toward human trials in 2027.


Subtle Medical raised 33M and named CEO Ohad Arazi as its AI imaging platform cuts MRI, PET, and CT scan time up to 80% on 1,300 scanners.


ZutaCore raised 100M Series C at a 600M valuation as Mitsubishi, Carrier, and Samsung back waterless cooling that cuts AI data center energy use in half.


Cyera raised 300M at a 12B valuation, doubling its worth in five months as AI data security ARR hit 150M on an 80x revenue multiple.


Boston Dynamics ships its full 2026 Atlas production run to Hyundai factories and Google DeepMind, with a 30,000 unit per year plant due by 2028.


Novo Nordisk is integrating OpenAI across drug discovery, trials, and manufacturing by end of 2026, a bid to claw back obesity market share from Eli Lilly.


The US closed a loophole that let Nvidia Blackwell chips reach China-owned firms abroad, after an estimated hundreds of thousands flowed via Malaysia.


Skild AI raised $1.4 billion led by SoftBank, tripling its valuation to over $14 billion in seven months to build one brain for any robot.