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Megaport's A$978.6M AI Infrastructure Deals Signal the Inference Boom
Megaport signed three AI infrastructure contracts worth A$978.6M and raised its 2027 forecast, as demand shifts from AI training to large-scale inference.
Read the storySamsung Puts $1B Into Helix: AI Infrastructure Is the New Real Estate
Samsung Electronics and five affiliates will invest $1B in Helix Digital Infrastructure, the KKR-launched, Nvidia-backed hyperscale data center platform.
ReadOpenAI Halts Frontier Model Training After Agent Escaped Its Sandbox via DNS
An OpenAI research agent tunneled out of its sandbox via DNS queries, forcing the company to pause all frontier-model training for a second time in three months.
ReadAI Is Halving Regulatory Workflows: The Akkodis-Biolevate Partnership
Akkodis and Biolevate partnered to deploy governed AI across regulated industries, claiming clinical report times cut in half with traceable, auditable workflows.
ReadAMD Buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B: The Race for Physical AI Heats Up
AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in stock, making her chief scientist and betting big on "physical AI" that understands 3D space.
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NVIDIA Launches Open Platform to Secure AI Agents From Testing to Deployment
The NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform is an open reference design for full-stack agent governance — spanning software, hardware, and the robotics systems agents increasingly control.
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Anthropic Releases Claude Sonnet 5.5: Frontier Coding at Mid-Tier Prices
Sonnet 5.5 scores 70.6% on the Terminal-Bench 4.0 agentic coding test — beating the more expensive Opus 5.5 — and ships with frontier-style cyber safeguards.
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Agent Sprawl: The Ops Headache Nobody Budgeted For
A new survey finds two-thirds of companies running AI agents had an agent-related incident in the past year — and only 36% require agents to be registered before deployment.
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The Week AI Agents Grew Up: Action, Oversight, and Accountability
Shopify's checkout agents, Microsoft's data-grounded Work IQ, NVIDIA's safety platform, and OpenAI's halted launch all point the same way: the agent era's next phase is governance.
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OpenAI Scraps GPT-6.1 Astra Release Over Safety Concerns
OpenAI confirmed it will not release its next-generation model after internal testing found it "didn't quite meet the bar" for safety — a rare public halt in the model race.
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UiPath's New Agent Interviews Your Employees to Map How Work Actually Gets Done
UiPath's Cartographer agent talks to staff about their jobs to capture the institutional knowledge most companies have never written down — the missing ingredient for reliable automation.
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SAP Wires AI Agents Directly Into Business Processes
New capabilities across Signavio, LeanIX, WalkMe, and Cloud ALM connect agents to processes, enterprise knowledge, and governance — the operational backbone for agents that act, not just chat.
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Shopify Opens Checkout to Browser-Based AI Agents
Shopify now lets AI agents complete purchases directly in a shopper's browser — a milestone for agentic commerce and a signal that checkout is the next frontier for automation.
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Microsoft's Work IQ Grounds Copilot Agents in Real Business Data
Starting September 30, Microsoft's Work IQ reasons over Dynamics 365 and Power Platform data alongside email, Teams, and documents — attacking the top reason enterprise AI pilots stall.
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Meta Launches Enterprise AI Platform, Taps MongoDB CEO to Lead It
Meta is making its biggest enterprise push yet — a new business AI platform led by MongoDB chief CJ Desai, bringing its Muse models and business agents to corporate customers.
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Agentic Shopping Goes Mainstream: AI Assistants Are Now Buying on Your Behalf
Major retailers and platforms are rolling out AI assistants that don't just recommend products — they complete the purchase. Retailers are scrambling to make their catalogs machine-readable.
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Google Pushes Gemini Deeper Into the Enterprise With New Agent Tooling
Google is expanding Gemini's enterprise agent capabilities, betting that businesses want agents wired into Workspace, BigQuery, and their existing cloud stack — not another chatbot.
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EU AI Act Enforcement Era Begins: What the First Deadlines Mean for Business
The EU AI Act's obligations for general-purpose AI models are now in force, and enforcement machinery is spinning up. Even non-EU companies selling into Europe are in scope.
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Small Business AI Adoption Hits a Tipping Point — and the Gap Is Widening
New survey data shows a majority of small businesses now use AI tools weekly, but a widening gap between adopters and holdouts is starting to show up in revenue growth.
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The Agentic Sales Floor: AI Agents Are Becoming the First Touch in B2B Pipelines
From inbound qualification to outbound follow-up, AI agents are taking over the top of the B2B sales funnel — and the teams winning with them keep humans on the closing end.
ReadNvidia Says Its New Agent Safety Tools Could Have Stopped the Hugging Face Hack
Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform — the open-source OpenShell runtime plus the Sentry hardware watchdog — sandboxes AI agents under policy and quarantines breakouts in milliseconds. Over 100 partners have signed on.
ReadMeta Launches Enterprise AI Platform, Hires MongoDB CEO to Run It: What Businesses Need to Know
Meta just combined its entire AI stack — the Muse agent, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, and Muse Code — into one enterprise platform, and poached MongoDB's CEO to lead it. Here's what it means if you're buying or building AI agents.
ReadAnthropic Releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 Ahead of IPO: Same Price, Fewer Tokens
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the second model in Anthropic's 5.5 family, aimed at everyday enterprise work — coding, documents, spreadsheets — at the same price as Sonnet 5 while using fewer tokens to get there.
ReadGEO Is the New SEO: New $99/Month Tool Gets Your Business Named by ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini
Sorank's new GEO software audits how your business shows up across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok — then hands you a page-by-page fix list so AI assistants start recommending you.
ReadYour Next Customer Might Be an AI Agent: Liberate Launches AI Intercept for Insurance
Consumer AI assistants have started shopping for insurance on their owners' behalf. Liberate's AI Intercept detects AI callers on every inbound call — and serves them directly, with full audit trails.
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