A new five-phase agent evaluation checklist is reshaping how teams build reliable AI systems, urging developers to manually review real agent traces, design specialized graders, and integrate continuous feedback loops into production pipelines.
Cursor launches self-hosted cloud agents, enabling enterprises to run autonomous AI coding agents entirely within their own infrastructure, keeping sensitive code and secrets secure while scaling to thousands of workers with no inbound ports or VPN tunnels required.
Granola raises $125M at a $1.5B valuation — six times its previous worth — as the AI meeting notetaker launches enterprise collaboration features and new APIs to outpace rivals like Read AI and Fireflies in the rapidly commoditizing AI note-taking market.
Legal AI startup Harvey secures $200 million in new funding, skyrocketing its valuation to $11 billion as its platform now serves over 100,000 lawyers across 1,300 organizations with $190 million in annual recurring revenue.
Salesforce integrates Agentforce AI agents directly into Slack, letting teams interact with AI via DMs or @mentions, deploy ready-made HR, sales, and marketing templates, or build custom agents — all without ever leaving the app.
AI is decimating entry-level coding jobs, with U.S. postings dropping 35% since 2023, as Block slashes nearly half its 8,000-person workforce and experts warn a sweeping wave of white-collar tech layoffs is just beginning.
Anthropic launches 'auto mode' for Claude Code, a smart permissions system that automatically allows safe operations while blocking dangerous ones like mass file deletion or data exfiltration, rolling out now for Team plan users with Enterprise and API access coming soon.
The US Department of Labor launches 'Make America AI-Ready,' a free AI literacy course delivered entirely via text message, requiring just 10 minutes a day for seven days — accessible to anyone by texting 'READY' to 20202.
Engineering teams are unknowingly rebuilding DSPy's core architecture from scratch, experts warn, as the powerful AI pipeline framework's 4.7M monthly downloads pale against LangChain's 222M despite offering superior structure, optimization, and composability that teams eventually recreate anyway — the hard way.
OpenAI is racing to nearly double its workforce from 4,500 to 8,000 employees by 2026, aggressively expanding across engineering, research, and sales as rival Anthropic gains ground, with businesses now 70% more likely to choose Anthropic for first-time AI purchases.