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.
The AI boom triggers a critical shortage of 81,000 electricians annually through 2034 as tech giants like Google desperately compete for skilled tradespeople to build data centers, offering higher wages while battling housing and hospital projects for the same workers.
Slack launches a completely rebuilt AI-powered Slackbot that reads users' work conversations and files to provide instant catch-ups, personalized drafts, and complex document analysis, rolling out to premium customers today with enterprise-grade security protections.
Anthropic launches Claude Cowork, an autonomous AI assistant that performs desktop tasks like file cleanup and report creation on macOS, targeting enterprise customers and directly challenging OpenAI's workplace dominance with safety-focused AI solutions.
Salesforce launches an upgraded AI-powered Slackbot today that schedules meetings and answers workflow questions using conversation context and company data, available exclusively for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers with enterprise-grade security features.
Software engineers abandon traditional line-by-line code reviews as AI agents now generate code at volumes too massive for human inspection, forcing teams to shift from syntax checking to behavior testing in live environments while infrastructure scrambles to handle unprecedented parallel development workflows.
SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin warns at CES 2026 that artificial intelligence poses existential threats to 160,000 entertainment workers, with voiceover artists and background actors facing job displacement from digital replicas as AI advancement creates workforce injury deemed 'an absolute certainty.'
Snowflake announces its largest acquisition ever, purchasing observability platform Observe for $1 billion to help users monitor data systems and resolve issues 10 times faster through unified telemetry data collection.