Michaels reported that its Google Gemini-powered AI shopping assistant, Ask Mike, has achieved a conversion rate more than double that of traditional search since its quiet launch in May 2024. The ass…
A developer created a containerized development environment for AI agents that spins up in seconds with limited, controlled access, using a separate GitHub account and specific keys to limit blast rad…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, pricing it at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens—half the list rates of its Fable 5 frontier model and unchanged from Opus 4.8. …
Anthropic on July 24 released Claude Opus 5, a frontier AI model that tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 61 points while costing roughly half as much per task as the company's own Fa…
Syam Bandi, Assistant Director of AI Engineering, open-sourced a reference architecture for secure multi-agent conversational AI on Google Cloud, addressing data security and hallucination control for…
The Nasdaq Composite fell 2.15% on July 23 after Alphabet and Tesla earnings revived concern about heavy AI spending, while surging oil prices added inflation pressure. Alphabet reported $119.8 billio…
A developer demonstrates how to deploy a Python ML model from a Jupyter notebook to a production-ready API in 10 minutes using serverless technology, eliminating the need for MLOps expertise. The guid…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, calling it a step-change improvement over Opus 4.8. The model approaches Fable 5 intelligence at roughly half the price, with a 1M token context window and…
Alphabet posted a record $119.8 billion in Q2 2026 revenue, up 24% year-over-year, but its stock fell 7% and erased $255.1 billion in market cap after the company raised its full-year 2026 capital exp…
Moody's issued a sector-wide credit warning on July 24, projecting that combined AI capital spending by six tech giants—Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Oracle, and CoreWeave—will reach $785 billion…
A survey by The New Stack finds that the four major public clouds—AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Cloudflare—each offer a managed agent sandbox service built on different isolation primitives,…
Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 5, a model that matches or exceeds its flagship Fable 5 on most coding and knowledge-work benchmarks at half the token price, costing $5 per million input to…
Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta plan to spend more than $700 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, with roughly 75% earmarked for AI infrastructure, sparking investor anxiety over returns. Al…
Claude Opus 5 is now available on Google Cloud's Agent Platform Model Garden, offering advanced coding, vision, and reasoning capabilities for complex agentic workflows. The model keeps data within pr…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, a step-change improvement over Claude Opus 4.8 with gains in deep reasoning, agentic tasks, and test-time compute scaling, featuring thinking on by default, a 1M toke…
Amazon Web Services released aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real-world cloud tasks, addressing the need for standardized evaluation as agents become more autonomous. T…
Google Cloud introduced version 0.2 of the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) on Wednesday, adding optional frontmatter fields for provenance, trust, freshness, lifecycle, and attestation to address agentic …
Verizon has reportedly signed a $1 billion agreement with Google to build a data center, marking a strategic reversal for the telecom giant that sold its data center portfolio to Equinix for $3.6 bill…
A TCS study of 300 manufacturers across North America and Europe found that no surveyed organization plans to reduce Physical AI investment, with 26% planning to increase spending, signaling a shift f…
Alphabet's $124 billion stake in Anthropic distorted its Q2 2026 earnings, with net income of $112.11 billion inflated by $98 billion in unrealized gains from equity securities including Anthropic and…