Perplexity surges 50% in a single month to hit $450M ARR, powered by a bold pivot from AI search to autonomous AI agents, while boasting 100 million monthly users — though it still trails rivals like OpenAI at $20B and Anthropic at $19B in annual revenue.
Anthropic launches Claude Managed Agents in public beta, a powerful suite of composable APIs enabling developers to build and deploy cloud-hosted AI agents up to 10x faster, with major companies like Notion, Asana, and Atlassian already shipping production-ready agents in days instead of months.
Cisco launches Nexus One, a unified networking platform integrating silicon, software, and security to eliminate data center fragmentation and power AI-scale infrastructure with quantum-safe encryption, real-time GPU visibility, and multi-OS support.
Anthropic's revenue explodes past $19 billion annually, fueled by surging demand for its Claude Code AI tool, but the company now faces a potentially devastating blow as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designates it a supply-chain risk, threatening to cut off all US government sales.
Hermes Agent v0.7.0 launches with a sweeping security overhaul, introducing an anti-detection browser, pluggable memory providers, credential pool rotation, and critical fixes blocking secret exfiltration — all packed into 168 merged PRs from over 35 contributors.
A new Gartner study warns that by 2028, more than half of enterprises will abandon AI copilots in favor of autonomous agentic platforms capable of executing workflows directly, signaling a major shift in how businesses deploy artificial intelligence.
By 2028, over half of enterprises will ditch AI copilots for autonomous agents capable of executing workflows independently, according to a new Gartner prediction, with software companies that fail to adapt facing up to 80% margin compression by 2030.
A groundbreaking AI system called ACRA is now autonomously reading scientific literature and translating chemical synthesis procedures into robotic lab experiments, successfully completing six real-world synthesis examples across two robotic platforms and promising to revolutionize automated chemistry research.
Cursor 3 launches as a revolutionary agent-first development platform, featuring a rebuilt interface with multi-repo support, seamless local-to-cloud handoff for uninterrupted AI agent sessions, an integrated browser, and a plugin marketplace — redefining how developers build software with AI.
OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to release next-gen AI models — 'Spud' and 'Claude Mythos' — with Anthropic already briefing government officials on unprecedented cybersecurity risks, while both systems leverage recursive self-improvement, raising urgent alarms about AI safety and unpredictable autonomous behavior.