Key Takeaways: The technology industry’s 2026 workforce reset is no longer just another correction after pandemic-era overhiring. Oracle, Meta, Block, Amazon, Dell Technologies and other major employers are cutting positions while committing substantial capital to AI infrastructure, automation and new technical ro
Key Takeaways: AMD has agreed to acquire Toronto-based Taalas, placing a sizable bet on chips that hard-wire AI model weights directly into silicon. The transaction’s financial terms were not disclosed, and closing is expected in the fourth quarter, subject to regulatory approval. The acquisition gives AMD another
Key Takeaways: OpenAI is preparing to enter consumer hardware with an AI device designed to travel easily around the home. Shaped like a doughnut and roughly the size of a hockey puck, the device will function as a ...
Key Takeaways: Meta is entering the AI coding-agent market with Muse Code, its first product in the category. Meta is presenting Muse Code as a less expensive alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Code...
Key Takeaways: AlixPartners has acquired agentic AI software consultancy Artium, combining the specialist’s engineering capabilities with AlixPartners’ 45 years of industry and functional experience. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal, announced August 4, 2026, gives AlixPartners a tea
Key Takeaways: Corporate earnings and easing energy prices pushed the major US stock indexes to new records Tuesday, with artificial intelligence businesses delivering some of the session’s strongest gains. The S&P 500 climbed 1.8%, or 136.02 points, to finish at 7,736.52. The Dow Jones industrial average advanced
Key Takeaways: The Trump administration is focusing on making US AI models more competitive after officials considered taking a more interventionist approach to "open source" AI. The direction reflects a difficult p...
Key Takeaways: Palantir CEO Alex Karp renewed his warning about AI frontier labs on Monday, using the company’s financial momentum to reinforce his argument about where artificial intelligence creates business value. His comments followed a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit for Palantir, giving the criti
Key Takeaways: Consider a bank whose contact-center agents switch among a customer relationship management system, a loan platform, and a fraud console during a single call. The customer may have authenticated in th...
Key Takeaways: Zenity has raised $125 million in a Series C round as enterprises confront a new security problem: AI systems that do more than generate text. Increasingly, autonomous agents can access data, invoke tools, update records and execute multistep business processes. Norwest Venture Partners led the roun