Anthropic makes its biggest bet yet that the money in AI lies not only in building frontier models, but in deploying them.
Baseten's $1.5B Series F values the inference startup at $13B, its fourth raise in 18 months, as serving models becomes AI's hottest layer.
Jeff Bezos's secretive industrial-AI venture Prometheus raised $12B at a $41B valuation, one of 2026's largest rounds.
Taktile raised $110M in a Goldman Sachs-led Series C to scale its agentic decisioning platform for banks and insurers.
After a confidential June filing, OpenAI's S-1 prospectus is expected public in mid-August, opening its finances to scrutiny.
NVIDIA Labs open-sourced NOOA, a framework built on one defiant idea: an AI agent is just a Python class.
Sail Research raised $80M at a $450M valuation to build inference and sandbox infrastructure for agents that run for hours or days.
A UCL-led team shows AI agents that learn WHEN to plan match a 70B model's performance while using 85% fewer tokens.
COMPASS splits agents into a Main Agent, Meta-Thinker, and Context Manager that distills an evolving brief, lifting long-horizon accuracy.
A dual-level uncertainty framework teaches autonomous web agents to notice when they are unsure at both planning and action levels.
Anthropic appoints former California Supreme Court Justice Tino Cuellar as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer amid regulatory fights.
Weeks after its landmark AI companion rules took effect, China issued its first noncompliance fines, opening a global enforcement era.