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.
Microsoft blocks internal employee access to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 after the new AI model's 30-day data retention policy — and up to two years for flagged content — raises legal concerns over confidential data, while external GitHub Copilot and Foundry customers retain access as Microsoft's legal team evaluates the …
Databricks launches OpenSharing under the Linux Foundation as a vendor-neutral open standard for secure data and AI collaboration, backed by major players including OpenAI, SAP, and Stripe, expanding cross-platform support for AI models, agent skills, and unstructured data sharing across organizations.
Surging AI costs are driving companies toward cheaper, smaller models, with Coinbase's Brian Armstrong predicting 80% of workloads will migrate to models 99% cheaper within 18 months, threatening the core business models of AI giants OpenAI and Anthropic.
Microsoft is cutting up to 400 Azure cloud jobs in China, with employees in Beijing and Shanghai losing their roles on July 6 as tightening U.S. and Chinese data regulations continue to squeeze the tech giant's operations in the region.
Apple unveils a rebooted Siri AI at WWDC 2026, betting that privacy-first Personal Context — tailoring responses using on-device data — will outshine Google and OpenAI's more advanced but less trusted AI offerings.
Apple launches a reimagined Siri powered by Apple Intelligence, bringing personal context awareness, Visual Intelligence, and cross-device conversation sync to iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and visionOS 27, with developer testing now open and a public beta coming later this year.
Apple is expanding its Private Cloud Compute infrastructure beyond its own data centers for the first time, partnering with Google Cloud and NVIDIA to run Apple Intelligence workloads while maintaining strict privacy and security guarantees through cryptographic verification and dual-vendor attestation.
Cohere launches North Mini Code, an open-source agentic coding model with a 30B mixture-of-experts architecture that uses only 3B active parameters, delivering up to 2.8x higher output throughput and 30% better latency than rival Devstral Small 2, now available on Hugging Face and via API under an Apache 2.0 license.
China launches a massive $295 billion AI infrastructure plan to build nationwide data centers over five years, targeting 80% domestic chip sourcing from Huawei while strategically pushing out US giants Nvidia and AMD.