OpenAI recruits over 100 former Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan bankers at $150/hour for Project Mercury, training AI models to automate entry-level investment banking tasks like cash-flow analysis and pitchbook creation, potentially revolutionizing Wall Street's traditional apprenticeship system.
Anthropic integrates Claude AI directly into Microsoft Excel with a sidebar interface that reads, modifies, and creates spreadsheets, delivering 5x faster business reviews and 90% data accuracy for major financial institutions during beta testing.
Business leaders increasingly risk losing critical thinking skills as AI becomes more persuasive in decision-making, but experts recommend four key anchors - authority, purpose, accountability, and truth checks - to maintain control over AI-assisted choices and ensure decisions reflect personal values rather than automated recommendations.
Tiger Data open-sources Eon, a Slack-native AI assistant that achieves 50% company adoption in just six weeks by solving key production challenges through conversational memory, focused context delivery, and reliable event processing.
Amazon surpasses Q3 earnings expectations with $1.95 per share and $180.17 billion revenue while AWS cloud division accelerates growth to 20.2%, prompting the company to boost 2025 capital spending to $125 billion even as it cuts 14,000 corporate jobs to streamline operations.
Cognition unveils SWE-1.5, a breakthrough AI coding model with hundreds of billions of parameters that blazes at 950 tokens per second—13x faster than Sonnet 4.5—while delivering near state-of-the-art performance through advanced reinforcement learning and partnership with Cerebras infrastructure.
Canva launches a completely reimagined Affinity design app that combines photo editing, vector design, and page layout tools in one free professional platform, featuring customizable workspaces and AI-powered tools for premium users.
Grammarly transforms into Superhuman after acquiring major productivity companies, launching an AI assistant that works across 100+ apps to help users with tasks from writing to scheduling meetings, with current Pro subscribers getting free access until 2026.
Cursor 2.0 launches with breakthrough Composer AI that codes 4x faster than competitors, completing most programming tasks in under 30 seconds while introducing agent-based interface that runs multiple coding processes simultaneously without interference.
GitHub launches Agent HQ platform that integrates AI coding agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition, and xAI into unified workflows, featuring Mission Control for managing multiple agents simultaneously and new enterprise tools for code quality monitoring and AI usage tracking.