Microsoft launches AI cybersecurity model, agentic defense platform to cut enterprise security costs

Microsoft launches MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and Project Perception, unveiling a new AI cybersecurity platform that uses agentic defense, lower-cost models, and Microsoft’s vast security data to help enterprises find and fix vulnerabilities faster.

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Netomi raises $110 million as Accenture and Adobe bet on AI for customer service

Netomi raises $110 million led by Accenture Ventures, with backing from Adobe and Jeffrey Katzenberg, to expand enterprise AI for customer service and customer experience.

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Anthropic says its most powerful AI cyber model is too dangerous to release publicly — so it built Project Glasswing

Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a $100 million AI cybersecurity initiative using its unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model to find and patch zero-day vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure before attackers can exploit them.

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Microsoft launches 3 new AI models in direct shot at OpenAI and Google

Microsoft launches three in-house AI models for transcription, voice, and image generation, challenging OpenAI and Google with lower-cost systems.

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Nvidia-backed ThinkLabs AI raises $28 million to tackle a growing power grid crunch

ThinkLabs AI has raised $28 million with backing from NVIDIA and energy investors to help utilities modernize power-grid planning with AI-powered simulation.

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Slack adds 30 AI features to Slackbot, its most ambitious update since the Salesforce acquisition

Salesforce unveiled more than 30 new Slackbot features, turning Slack into an AI-powered workspace for meeting transcription, CRM updates, desktop assistance and enterprise agent workflows.

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Softr launches AI-native platform to help nontechnical teams build business apps without code

Berlin startup Softr has launched an AI-native no-code platform that turns plain English into reliable, production-ready business apps for nontechnical teams.

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Perplexity takes its ‘Computer’ AI agent into the enterprise, taking aim at Microsoft and Salesforce

Perplexity announced Computer for Enterprise at its Ask 2026 developer conference, launching a multi-model AI agent with Slack integration, Snowflake connectors, and 20 orchestrated AI models to compete directly with Microsoft Copilot and Salesforce in the $139 billion agentic AI market.

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Microsoft built Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B to know when to think — and when thinking is a waste of time

Microsoft released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, an open-weight multimodal vision AI model designed to deliver strong math, science, document and UI reasoning with far less training data and compute than much larger systems.

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OpenAI's AI data agent, built by two engineers, now serves thousands of employees — and the company says anyone can replicate it

OpenAI’s internal AI data agent searches 600 petabytes across 70,000 datasets, saving hours per query and offering a blueprint for enterprise AI agents.

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Anthropic says Claude Code transformed programming. Now Claude Cowork is coming for the rest of the enterprise.

Anthropic is making its boldest enterprise push yet with Claude Cowork, rolling out private plug-in marketplaces, deep integrations, and AI agent tools that are reshaping corporate adoption and rattling software markets.

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Anthropic's Sonnet 4.6 matches flagship AI performance at one-fifth the cost, accelerating enterprise adoption

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers near-Opus AI performance for coding, computer use, and agents at Sonnet pricing ($3/$15 per million tokens), reshaping enterprise automation economics with a 1M-token context window and stronger reliability.

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OpenAI deploys Cerebras chips for 15x faster code generation in first major move beyond Nvidia

OpenAI launches GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark, a Cerebras-powered, ultra-low-latency coding model that claims 15x faster generation speeds, signaling a major inference shift beyond Nvidia as the company faces ads backlash, safety-team turmoil, and Pentagon scrutiny.

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Anthropic’s Claude Cowork finally lands on Windows — and it wants to automate your workday

Anthropic has launched Claude Cowork for Windows, bringing its AI agent’s file access and task automation to most desktop users as Microsoft deepens its partnership with Anthropic while reassessing its $13 billion OpenAI alliance.

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OpenAI’s GPT-5.3-Codex drops as Anthropic upgrades Claude — AI coding wars heat up ahead of Super Bowl ads

OpenAI launched GPT-5.3-Codex as Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 in a simultaneous drop that kicks off the AI coding wars, with benchmark claims, enterprise agent ambitions, and cybersecurity safeguards colliding with a Super Bowl-fueled rivalry.

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 brings 1M token context and 'agent teams' to take on OpenAI's Codex

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.6 with a 1M-token context window, multi-agent “agent teams” in Claude Code, and new API controls—escalating its enterprise AI rivalry with OpenAI’s Codex and fueling fresh debate over AI’s impact on software markets.

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Apple integrates Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex into Xcode 26.3 in push for ‘agentic coding’

Apple's Xcode 26.3 integrates Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex, letting AI agents autonomously write, build, and test code—sparking debate over security and the future of software development.

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A European AI challenger goes after GitHub Copilot: Mistral launches Vibe 2.0

Mistral AI launches Vibe 2.0, a paid coding agent that lets enterprises customize AI models on proprietary code, as the French startup targets €1 billion in revenue and positions itself as Europe's answer to OpenAI.

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Theorem wants to stop AI-written bugs before they ship — and just raised $6M to do it

Theorem raises $6 million to use AI-powered formal verification to mathematically prove AI-generated code is safe before it's deployed in critical systems.

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Anthropic embeds Slack, Figma and Asana inside Claude, turning AI chat into a workplace command center

Anthropic is turning Claude into an interactive enterprise workspace by embedding business apps like Slack, Asana, Figma, and Amplitude—powered by its open Model Context Protocol (MCP)—so teams can create projects, send messages, and analyze data without switching tabs.

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Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

Goose, Block’s open-source AI coding agent, is emerging as a free alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Code, as developers weigh offline control, rate limits, and the rising cost of AI coding tools.

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Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

Nous Research has released NousCoder-14B, an open-source AI coding model trained in four days on Nvidia B200 GPUs, publishing its full reinforcement-learning stack as Claude Code hype underscores the accelerating race to automate software development.

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The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow, and developers are losing their minds

Claude Code creator Boris Cherny reveals his viral workflow for running multiple AI agents simultaneously—transforming how developers build software with Anthropic's coding tool.

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While everyone talks about an AI bubble, Salesforce quietly added 6,000 enterprise customers in 3 months

Salesforce added 6,000 Agentforce customers in one quarter, hitting $540M in revenue—challenging the AI bubble narrative with real enterprise adoption and ROI.

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Mistral launches OCR 3 to digitize enterprise documents, touts 74% win rate and $2-per-1,000-page pricing

Mistral AI launches OCR 3 at $2 per 1,000 pages, arguing that document digitization — not chatbots — is the critical first step enterprises must take before AI adoption pays off.

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Anthropic launches enterprise ‘Agent Skills’ and opens the standard, challenging OpenAI in workplace AI

Anthropic releases its Agent Skills framework as an open standard, with Microsoft, OpenAI, Atlassian, and Figma already adopting the technology that teaches AI assistants to do specialized work.

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