Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.

Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession

A new study estimates only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI, as enterprises race to hire forward-deployed engineers to implement AI at scale.

Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever

Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.

Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents

On the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a “large enterprise opportunity” spanning AI agents, APIs, compute, and internal software.

Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls

The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.

MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea

Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup’s MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself.

Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive

Businesses that rely wholly on the major AI labs ultimately won’t survive, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicts.

ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push

ServiceNow’s investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.

After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe

After IBM’s stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.