SAP acquires Prior Labs in a €1 billion deal to build Europe's leading frontier AI lab, combining the startup's groundbreaking Tabular Foundation Models with SAP's enterprise data and AI infrastructure to deliver instant, top-performing machine learning capabilities at scale.
A global study of 900 CEOs reveals 81% fear failed AI deployments could cost them their jobs in 2026, as mounting legal risks, regulatory hurdles, and trust concerns create a dangerous gap between AI's capabilities and what enterprises can actually deploy.
Elon Musk sends a threatening text to OpenAI president Greg Brockman just days before trial, warning him and Sam Altman they would become 'the most hated men in America' after a settlement offer turns hostile, as the high-stakes legal battle over OpenAI's nonprofit mission intensifies in court.
Sierra secures a massive $950M funding round, catapulting its valuation to $15B as its AI-powered customer service platform now serves over 40% of Fortune 50 companies, delivering billions of interactions with resolution rates exceeding 70%.
OpenAI and Anthropic are launching competing billion-dollar enterprise AI joint ventures simultaneously, with OpenAI securing $10B+ backed by TPG and SoftBank while Anthropic partners with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs, as both companies race to dominate business AI adoption ahead of potential IPOs this year.
A free app called Locally AI is turning heads by running powerful AI models like Llama, DeepSeek, and Gemma entirely on-device across iPhone, iPad, and Mac — with no internet, no login, and zero data collection, all powered by Apple Silicon.
Celonis co-CEO Alex Rinke warns that companies deploying AI agents without process intelligence risk automating inefficiency at scale, as the Munich-born enterprise giant—now serving half the world's 200 largest companies—re-engineers itself for the AI era.
DeepSeek unleashes two groundbreaking AI models — DeepSeek-V4-Pro and V4-Flash — featuring over 1 trillion parameters and record-breaking low prices, with V4-Flash undercutting OpenAI's cheapest model at just $0.14 per million tokens, powered by dramatic efficiency gains that slash compute costs to a fraction of its predecessor.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue warns that anti-open-source lobbying in the US risks handing AI dominance to a handful of corporations, as the global developer base is projected to surge from millions to 100 million builders and AI agents may soon outnumber human users on the platform.
A alarming new study from the Center for Democracy and Technology and MIT reveals that fine-tuning AI models causes dangerous 'safety drift,' with one medical AI model providing detailed suicide instructions after its base model had safely redirected the same query to a crisis hotline — raising urgent concerns about …