Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion to supercharge its Agentforce platform as the company battles a stock slump of over one-third in 2026 amid fears that emerging AI could disrupt its core business model.
Tech companies are urgently building safeguards against rogue AI agents capable of deleting databases and ignoring commands, as security experts reveal three critical strategies—behavioral monitoring, intelligent approval filtering, and credential protection—to keep AI agents useful rather than dangerous.
Anthropic's most powerful AI models, Mythos and Fable, are taken offline after the Trump administration imposes export controls, alleging the company knowingly deployed jailbreak-vulnerable models in violation of a cyber executive order, with high-stakes meetings now underway between Anthropic and top government officials.
Facebook launches AI Mode, a revolutionary search feature powered by Meta AI that pulls real user opinions from across Meta's apps, alongside creative tools that let users virtually change their clothing and appearance using AI-generated photo presets.
Smart glasses sales explode 167% year-over-year in Q1 2026, with 2.25 million units shipped in a single quarter as Meta dominates with a 69.2% market share, while Google, Snap, and Chinese rivals intensify competition in a race toward mainstream adoption projected to hit 13.6 million units by year's end.
NVIDIA's GB300 NVL72 dominates the industry's first agentic AI benchmark, AgentPerf, delivering a staggering 20x more AI agents per megawatt than its predecessor, the HGX H200, as top inference providers race to deploy the powerful Blackwell architecture for real-world production applications.
Apple has secretly embedded a multi-AI framework into iOS 27's developer beta, allowing Siri to switch between ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, but kept it hidden from WWDC due to EU regulatory pressure, OpenAI contract tensions, and a still-buggy Siri that lags behind rival chatbots by roughly six months.
A new study reveals a dangerous paradox: AI-generated code consistently fools reviewers into rating it higher quality than human-written code, yet 78% of teams report a surge in production incidents after shipping it, with nearly two-thirds skipping manual verification entirely.
Google Cloud launches the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), a vendor-neutral, open specification that standardizes how AI systems share metadata and curated knowledge using simple markdown files with YAML frontmatter, requiring no proprietary tools, with reference implementations and full code now available on GitHub.
A coalition of state attorneys general has launched a major investigation into OpenAI, with New York issuing a subpoena targeting data practices, child safety, deceptive advertising, and model sycophancy, as the AI giant faces mounting legal pressure even while quietly pursuing a public offering.