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Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers 'frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterpris

In September 2026, Anthropic unveiled a suite of new AI products—Claude Tag, Sonnet 5.5, Fable/Mythos 5.1—and infrastructure releases such as Opus 5.5 and a plugins portal, following a record 47 billi

Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia is in early-stage talks with insurance companies to structure risk-mitigation products to protect lenders against loan defaults by neoclouds — World's largest listed c

Artificial intelligence agent startup NinjaTech AI Inc. today launched Ninja Enterprise to let large companies run what the startup calls AI employees inside their own cloud environments for a fixed y

Following our announcement of Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking last week, we are thrilled to share that Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available in Gemini Enter

NVIDIA AIPerf is a benchmarking framework that supersedes GenAI‑Perf with a multiprocess architecture, eliminating client‑side bottlenecks during high‑concurrency LLM testing. It supports more than 15

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble When Jessica Wa

Artificial intelligence-powered construction management startup Buildots Ltd. said today it has raised 130 million in new late-stage funding to expand its platform and capitalize on rising investment

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1Password uses Codex across software delivery; its OpenAI case study reports 20.9% higher engineering productivity in a core cohort.

GitLab describes a federated AI-governance and training model and reports a 22.3% rise in daily internal coding-tool interactions after launch.

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Anthropic says Fable 5.1 sets new standards on coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks, and can fix the root causes of software issues — It's only th

Gilbert + Tobin uses ChatGPT and Codex in governed legal operations; OpenAI reports 87% active usage among enabled users.

Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic has signed a $35B cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda; Nvidia will hold the lease on and supply chips to a Texas data center built by Hut 8 —

Enterprise AI agents promise to simplify everyday work, but delivering that experience requires far more than embedding AI into existing enterprise applications. Enterprise AI has expanded well beyond

Reuters: Sources: Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~4B valuation — Anthropic discussed buying arti

**Vertical Advantage: Transforming Industries with Lakebase and Agentic AI** The article details how Lakebase’s unified data‑lake platform, coupled with Agentic AI’s autonomous decision‑making agents,

As AI takes on more complex work, business leaders face a new challenge: enabling rapid innovation using agents while protecting their margins and budgets. To get a real return on AI, financial operat

NVIDIA’s new GPUs in the Vera Rubin and Blackwell families set a new benchmark for agentic‑AI performance per watt on AgentX, an open‑source inference test that models realistic multi‑step, tool‑using

Bloomberg: Sources: Nvidia-backed neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to 3B at a 12B+ valuation; its revenue this year is estimated to reach 1.5B+ — Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider bac

Enterprise content management is experiencing its biggest architectural shift since the cloud migration era. For years, enterprises have stored trillions of gigabytes of critical data in Box: financia

Antoine Tardif / Unite.AI: Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its “Post-Transformer” BDH architecture, raised a 30M seed at a 500M valuation — AI research company Pathway ha

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Big Tech's AI boom echoes the 1870s railroad buildout, and Nvidia shifting risk to institutional capital may expose investors if AI revenues fail to materialize — On Januar

ONESTRUCTION, with technical advisory from the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, built Ishigaki-IDS, a foundation model specialized for construction and BIM workflows. This architectural case study

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year, 9.1B compute deal with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at a Rockdale, TX campus; RIOT jumps ~25% after hours — Anthropic PBC

Editor's Note: Our Future Mode series will give businesses insight into how Chrome Enterprise is approaching AI in the browser. Stay tuned for more blogs in this series.Future Mode Part 2: The foundat

Today’s data lakehouse is no longer mere data repository, but increasingly a system of action, actively executing tasks via always-on, autonomous AI agents. Rather than waiting for static reports, the

OpenAI’s Codex, an AI‑powered coding engine, has surged beyond the developer community to reach over 10 million users—combining Codex with its new “ChatGPT Work” platform that turns the model into a g

Generative AI can make cloud costs difficult to predict. A single five-word prompt can run complex operations and generate significant costs. Traditional metrics like requests per second no longer hel

Anyone building with AI eventually hits the same tradeoff: how to get the most intelligence per dollar, the right model at the right cost for each task. That’s what DigitalOcean Inference Engine is bu

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As AI infrastructure investment scales globally and inference workloads multiply, cache storage is emerging as the critical data layer that makes AI factories functional, persistent and economically v

Bloomberg: Sources: Reno-based AI chip startup Positron is in talks to raise ~750M in two phases, at valuations of 3.5B in the first tranche and ~5B in the second — AI chip startup Positron is in talk

Over 7T AI debt by 2029, There can be no Neoclouds without the Trinity. Nvidia's Backstop Economics Explained. AI Debt Needs Quantified. Nvidia's Objective is to Broaden Compute Access, Develop AI Fin

The UK Financial Conduct Authority has warned of an emerging 'arms race' between the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence in financial services and the regulator's ability to keep pace, as millio

Patricia Kowsmann / Wall Street Journal: Chainalysis: addresses linked to Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other US-sanctioned entities received 100B+ in crypto last year, almost 8x the amount in 2024 —

Editor’s note: SOCRadar is a leading cybersecurity company that provides threat intelligence to businesses worldwide. As the volume of cyber threats continued to grow, SOCRadar needed to modernize its

The financial services industry (FSI) operates under a unique set of non-negotiable requirements: the need for strict regulatory compliance, sub-millisecond transactional speeds, and security that ver

Written by: James Sadowski, Alden Wahlstrom Introduction Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the pro-Russia influence ecosystem has evolved from a tool of war back into a global s

Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM Spectacular hypothetical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt. Day 2, 16:00 UTC --- Two AI review agents from competing vendors, both attached to a downstream pull request

Will Canny / CoinDesk: Sources: Kraken is in talks to acquire a 15% stake in DeFi protocol Aave at a 385M valuation, investing 35,000 ETH in return for 250,000 AAVE tokens — Crypto exchange Kraken, pa

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: XCures, which uses AI to streamline patient data and medical records, raised a 46M Series B at a 127M post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to 76M — XCur

Protecting sensitive data used with AI is a critical part of our commitment to providing advanced and secure cloud infrastructure. Confidential Computing cryptographically protects data in use in hard

Kerry Flynn / Axios: Sources: marketing tech startup AppsFlyer raised a 1B Series E at a 2.7B post-money valuation; Moloco, Google, Meta, and Unity acquire minority stakes — AppsFlyer has raised more

BBVA deployed ChatGPT Enterprise to over 100,000 employees; OpenAI reports 70%+ weekly usage and selected workflow gains.

Bloomberg: Amazon secures a 17.5B loan from Citigroup and other banks, after selling CA14B in bonds on Monday, the largest corporate debt offering in Canadian dollars — Soon after selling the biggest