Amazon launches Amazon Quick, a free AI work assistant with deep integration across Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and Zoom, offering enterprise-grade automation for drafting emails, updating tickets, and creating presentations — trusted by major companies like Southwest Airlines, BMW, and the NFL.
Perplexity launches a massive enterprise expansion of its AI agent platform at Ask NYC, introducing 50+ prebuilt workflows, Databricks and Snowflake integrations, financial data connections via Morningstar and PitchBook, and a 1Password integration — all while claiming $2.8 billion in labor-equivalent work completed since launch.
AI startup Rogo Technologies hits a $2 billion valuation after two former Wall Street bankers build a platform that automates the tedious grunt work of investment banking, including spreadsheet crunching and slide deck formatting.
Cursor launches its public beta SDK, allowing developers to build programmatic coding agents in TypeScript using the same infrastructure powering its desktop and web apps, with cloud-based execution, secure sandboxing, and seamless CI/CD integration.
Google Gemini now lets users instantly generate and download files in over 10 formats—including PDFs, Word docs, and spreadsheets—directly from chat, with a global rollout beginning April 29, 2026.
Warp, a new open-source terminal-based agentic development environment backed by OpenAI, launches with built-in AI coding agents and support for third-party tools like Claude Code and Gemini CLI, already surpassing 42,800 GitHub stars.
Meta unveils closed-source AI model Muse Spark, thrilling Wall Street while simultaneously cutting 10% of its workforce and planning up to $135 billion in AI infrastructure spending, marking a bold shift to compete directly with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
AWS and OpenAI are expanding their partnership, bringing frontier AI models, the Codex coding agent, and a new Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents service to enterprise customers through Amazon Bedrock's secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.
Hundreds of Google employees are demanding CEO Sundar Pichai block the Pentagon from using the company's AI for classified military work, igniting a fierce public debate over the ethics of military AI contracts just months after rival Anthropic was dropped by the Defense Department for making a similar request.
OpenAI and AWS are expanding their strategic partnership, bringing GPT-5.5 and Codex to Amazon Bedrock in limited preview, enabling enterprises to deploy advanced AI models and agents within AWS security frameworks while counting usage toward cloud commitments.