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.
Microsoft launches 'Autopilot' AI agents, starting with Microsoft Scout, which autonomously manages scheduling, flags risks, and learns user priorities across Microsoft 365 apps like Teams, Outlook, and SharePoint, now rolling out in private preview.
Warp's AI agents now co-create 90% of internal pull requests as the terminal platform reports 35x ARR growth and 500% enterprise revenue surge, pioneering a new 'Open Agentic Development' model where AI handles coding tasks while humans supervise outcomes.
Anthropic closes a massive $65B funding round near a $1T valuation as AI agents invade finance — Robinhood launches autonomous AI trading accounts — but a new MIT report warns 76% of organizations lack the infrastructure to support the agentic future they're racing toward.
NVIDIA launches Cosmos 3, the world's first fully open omnimodel capable of natively processing text, images, video, sound, and actions for robotics and autonomous vehicles, while simultaneously unveiling the global Cosmos Coalition to accelerate open world model development across industries.