Perplexity launches a massive enterprise expansion of its AI agent platform at Ask NYC, introducing 50+ prebuilt workflows, Databricks and Snowflake integrations, financial data connections via Morningstar and PitchBook, and a 1Password integration — all while claiming $2.8 billion in labor-equivalent work completed since launch.
AI startup Rogo Technologies hits a $2 billion valuation after two former Wall Street bankers build a platform that automates the tedious grunt work of investment banking, including spreadsheet crunching and slide deck formatting.
MIT and IBM are launching the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, expanding their seven-year AI collaboration into quantum and hybrid computing systems to tackle real-world challenges like drug discovery, weather prediction, and financial forecasting.
Biohub launches its $500 million Virtual Biology Initiative, a five-year effort to build open, AI-powered predictive models of human cells, partnering with major institutions like the Broad Institute and Allen Institute, with NVIDIA providing computing power, and all generated data made freely available to accelerate disease prevention and cures.
The Zuckerberg Chan Biohub is committing $500 million over five years to build AI-powered simulations of the human body, partnering with Nvidia and top research institutions in an ambitious push to ultimately cure all human disease.
Cursor launches its public beta SDK, allowing developers to build programmatic coding agents in TypeScript using the same infrastructure powering its desktop and web apps, with cloud-based execution, secure sandboxing, and seamless CI/CD integration.
Alphabet crushes Q1 2026 expectations as Google Cloud surpasses $20 billion in revenue for the first time, AI-powered cloud revenue skyrockets 800% year-over-year, Waymo hits 500,000 weekly autonomous rides across 11 U.S. cities, and paid subscriptions across YouTube and Google One reach 350 million.
Warp, a new open-source terminal-based agentic development environment backed by OpenAI, launches with built-in AI coding agents and support for third-party tools like Claude Code and Gemini CLI, already surpassing 42,800 GitHub stars.
TradingAgents, an open-source multi-agent LLM framework that replicates real-world trading firms using specialized AI roles, has surpassed 55,000 GitHub stars as its latest version introduces crash recovery, persistent decision logging, and expanded support for major AI providers including OpenAI, Google, and DeepSeek.
Meta unveils closed-source AI model Muse Spark, thrilling Wall Street while simultaneously cutting 10% of its workforce and planning up to $135 billion in AI infrastructure spending, marking a bold shift to compete directly with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.