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.
Meta erects a strict firewall between itself and Chinese-founded AI service Manus, barring staff access to internal systems and prohibiting use of Manus tools, as a $2 billion acquisition deal collapses amid opposition from Beijing.
Anthropic launches Claude Managed Agents, a suite of composable APIs enabling enterprise teams to deploy AI agents in days, with major clients like Notion and Atlassian reporting tasks that once took 12 hours now completing in just 20 minutes.
Standard Bots hits a $1 billion valuation after raising $200 million led by General Catalyst and RoboStrategy, accelerating US robotic arm manufacturing as competition with China in AI-powered robotics intensifies.
Apple unveils a rebuilt Siri and sweeping AI integration across all its devices at WWDC 2026, but despite privacy-first guardrails and massive reach, it trails rivals like OpenAI and Google in the rapidly growing AI agents race.
Nvidia-backed startup Generalist raises $400M at a $2B valuation in the physical AI race, even as experts and industry leaders warn that allowing a handful of companies to monopolize generalized robotics technology poses serious risks to humanity, prompting calls for open-source collaboration and government accountability.
Anthropic launches an open-source AI security tool on GitHub that uses Claude to autonomously detect and patch software vulnerabilities, running agents in isolated sandboxes through a full recon-to-patch pipeline with threat modeling, scanning, triage, and automated patch validation.
Nvidia-backed robotics startup Generalist AI raises $400 million in a new funding round led by Radical Ventures, catapulting the company to a $2 billion valuation as it pushes to build advanced AI models that enable robots to tackle increasingly complex real-world tasks.
Morgan Stanley is opening its stock administration platforms to external AI agents, allowing corporate clients to autonomously interact with firm systems without traditional logins — a bold move that puts the bank ahead of Wall Street rivals like JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, with plans to expand access to all 3,400 …
Microsoft unveils Project Solara at Build, an Android-based AI-agent platform powering next-gen enterprise devices, with major retailers like Best Buy, CVS Health, and Target already lining up to pilot the technology alongside chip partners Qualcomm and MediaTek.