Leading AI models achieve only 24% accuracy on real white-collar tasks in new benchmark testing, with Gemini 3 Flash and GPT-5.2 struggling most when tracking information across multiple workplace tools like Slack and Google Drive in consulting, banking, and legal scenarios.
Adobe launches new AI tools for Acrobat and Express that convert PDFs to PowerPoint presentations and create personalized podcasts from documents, as AI usage surges 400% and delivers 45% efficiency gains in document processing.
Indian AI startup Emergent rockets to $300 million valuation after raising $70 million from SoftBank and Khosla Ventures, tripling its worth in just four months as its no-code platform reaches $50 million in annual revenue serving 5 million users worldwide.
Despite 55 years of promises from COBOL to AI tools, the software industry's recurring attempts to replace developers continue failing because the real bottleneck isn't typing speed or syntax complexity, but the intellectual challenge of handling complex business logic and edge cases that require human judgment.
Vercel launches Agent Skills, a revolutionary package manager that equips AI coding agents with specialized abilities including 40+ React performance rules, 100+ web design guidelines, and automated deployment tools, installing via npm-like commands to enable natural language code reviews and structured development workflows.
AI coding agents accelerate software prototyping and demo creation but paradoxically make programmers busier rather than replacing them, as the tools require extensive human oversight to produce quality code and struggle with novel concepts outside their training data.
Anthropic launches Knowledge Bases for Claude Cowork, enabling persistent information repositories that Claude can reference and update, while shifting to a productivity-focused interface that merges traditional chat with workflow tools, expanded connector management, and enhanced voice capabilities.
New security research reveals ChatGPT drives 71% of enterprise data exposures despite accounting for only 44% of AI usage, with analysis of 22.4 million prompts showing 579,000 contain sensitive company information including M&A data and financial projections.
Anthropic rockets to 40% of the $37 billion enterprise AI market, nearly doubling from 24% last year while OpenAI plummets from 50% to just 27%, with Anthropic dominating 54% of the $4 billion coding tools sector as true AI agents remain limited to only 16% of deployments.
PwC partners with Google Cloud to deploy AI agents across business workflows using Gemini Enterprise platform, slashing implementation time by 10x while already building 150+ agents internally, as 70% of tech companies fear falling behind AI-adopting competitors despite only 23% modeling AI's actual business impact.