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Google's Opal just quietly showed enterprise teams the new blueprint for building AI agents

For the past year, the enterprise AI community has been locked in a debate about how much freedom to give AI agents. Too little, and you get expensive workflow automation that barely justifies the "agent" label. Too much, and you get the kind of data-wiping disasters that plagued early adopters of tools like OpenClaw. This week, Google Labs released an update to Opal, its no-code visual agent builder, that quietly lands on an answer — and it carries lessons that every IT leader plannin

OpenAI's big investment from AWS comes with something else: new 'stateful' architecture for enterprise agents

The landscape of enterprise artificial intelligence shifted fundamentally today as OpenAI announced $110 billion in new funding from three of tech's largest firms: $30 billion from SoftBank, $30 billion from Nvidia, and $50 billion from Amazon.But while the former two players are providing money, OpenAI is going further with Amazon in a new direction, establishing an upcoming fully "Stateful Runtime Environment" on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world's most used cloud enviro

OpenAI fires employee for using confidential info on prediction markets

The company said such trades violates its internal company policies about using confidential information for personal gain.

Elon Musk Moves Against the Russians in Ukraine

But the incident, which has not been previously reported, set in motion a chain of events that would allow Ukraine to seize the momentum at the front with the help of an unlikely ally: Elon Musk.

As Elon Musk's SpaceX merges with his AI firm, will shares rocket?

Musk says that 'it is time to go forth, be out there among the stars, expand the scope and scale of human consciousness.' His ...

Elon Musk Reportedly Limited Russian Access To Starlink, Allowing Ukraine To Make Gains At The Battlefront

Elon Musk appears to have limited Russia's access to Starlink over the past weeks, a development that has allowed Ukraine to ...

Elon Musk’s Secret Web of Companies in Texas

The megabillionaire was tied to about 90 companies in the state, which he uses for everything from paying nannies to buying ...

Government Agencies Raise Alarm About Use of Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot

Warnings about xAI’s safety and reliability preceded the Pentagon’s decision to approve Grok for use in classified settings.

New Report Uncovers Elon Musk’s Hidden Network of 90-Plus Texas Companies Buying Land and Influence

After vowing in 2020 to shed nearly all his possessions, Musk quietly built more than 90 Texas-based companies ...

Inside Elon Musk's Shadowy Texas Empire Shaking Up Austin

NYT maps nearly 90 Texas companies tied to Elon Musk — land, condos and political money. What it means for Austin and Bastrop ...

Pentagon moves to designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk

"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote in the post.

Musk bashes OpenAI in deposition, saying ‘nobody committed suicide because of Grok’

In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with nonconsensual nude images.

Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: What’s actually at stake?

Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes questions about national security, corporate control, and who sets the rules for military AI.

Enterprise MCP adoption is outpacing security controls

AI agents now carry more access and more connections to enterprise systems than any other software in the environment. That makes them a bigger attack surface than anything security teams have had to govern before, and the industry doesn't yet have a framework for it. "If that attack vector gets utilized, it can result in a data breach, or even worse," said Spiros Xanthos, founder and CEO of Resolve AI, speaking at a recent VentureBeat AI Impact Series event.Traditional security f

ChatGPT reaches 900M weekly active users

OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding.

AI music generator Suno hits 2M paid subscribers and $300M in annual recurring revenue

Suno lets users create music using natural language prompts, making it possible for people with little experience to generate audio with little effort.

Apple and Netflix team up to air Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix 

As Netflix continues its live sports push, the company has partnered with Apple to air the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix.

Perplexity’s new Computer is another bet that users need many AI models

Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, "unifies every current AI capability into a single system." 

Pokémon Winds and Pokémon Waves are coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 in 2027

The 10th-generation starter Pokémon were revealed in the trailer: Browt (a grass bird), Pombon (a fire puppy), and Gecqua (a water gecko).

Employees at Google and OpenAI support Anthropic’s Pentagon stand in open letter

While Anthropic has an existing partnership with the Pentagon, the AI company has remained firm that its technology not be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weaponry.