Cisco Gives a Former Startup Founder an AI Budget With No Ceiling

Cisco’s Unlimited-Token Refactor Shifts the Bottleneck From Writing Code to Proving It Cisco president Jeetu Patel has given one engineer unlimited AI tokens and 24 months to refactor 98%... Read more »

Google Said Its Enterprise AI Agent Was Coming “Soon”, Five Months On, the Guardrails Shipped First

At Google I/O in May, Google Cloud told enterprise customers that Gemini Spark, a 24/7 AI agent for Gemini Enterprise, was “rolling out to customers soon.” Google’s release notes... Read more »

Salesforce Closes $3.6 Billion Fin Deal, Adding a Fast-Deploy AI Agent to Agentforce

Salesforce now sells two ways to put an AI agent on customer support, and it agreed to pay about $3.6 billion to add the one it describes as fast... Read more »

Compute Is Now AI’s Scarcest Layer: Amazon Expects to Fall Short of Demand Through 2027

Amazon plans to spend about $220 billion on capital expenditures this year, and CEO Andy Jassy still told investors the company will not have enough capacity to meet all... Read more »

Accenture and Google Cloud Form Gemini Enterprise Business Group: 1,000 Engineers and a Market Share Problem

Google Cloud holds roughly 6 percent of enterprise AI spending among U.S. businesses. Anthropic and OpenAI together account for more than 80 percent. The new Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business... Read more »

OpenAI Set the AI Valuation Record in March, Anthropic Broke It by May

OpenAI closed the largest private funding round in history on March 31, 2026: $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation. Eight weeks later, Anthropic topped it, closing a $65... Read more »

GPT-6 Astra’s ‘Critical’ Designation: The Governance Gap Behind the Breakthrough

OpenAI’s newest model can find and exploit flaws in hardened, real-world systems without a person walking it through the steps. The capability pushed GPT-6 Astra past “Critical,” the highest... Read more »

The Chief AI Officer Role Is Spreading Fast, The Results It’s Supposed to Own Aren’t There Yet

Eighty-eight percent of executives plan to raise AI budgets over the next year specifically because of AI agents, and companies are creating a new executive seat to manage that... Read more »

AI Didn’t Cause Most of 2026’s Tech Layoffs, It Explained Them

Fifteen major tech employers cut a combined total well past 70,000 jobs in 2026 and gave the same reason. Amazon, Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Cisco, PayPal, and a dozen others... Read more »

Anthropic Confirms Claude Sonnet 5 Prices Rise 50% on September 1

Every business running Claude Sonnet 5 in production is about to see its API bill jump by half, and for many teams a second, quieter change will push the... Read more »
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