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SoftBank pledges €75 billion for 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in France—Europe's largest AI infrastructure commitment—brokered directly between Masayoshi Son and President Macron.
Anthropic filed a confidential IPO prospectus with the SEC on June 1, becoming the first major frontier AI lab to formally begin the public markets process — and leaping ahead of rival OpenAI.
DeepSeek is permanently locking in a 75% discount on its V4-Pro API, setting new prices well below U.S. competitors and putting lasting pressure on the AI inference market.
Anthropic projects $10.9 billion in Q2 2026 revenue and its first operating profit of ~$559 million — arriving roughly two years ahead of internal projections.
Jeff Bezos publicly dismissed AI bubble concerns on CNBC, arguing that even a bubble-driven buildout creates lasting infrastructure value — while revealing he is backing a $6.2 billion physical-world AI startup.
Harvard, Wharton, and MIT Sloan are restructuring executive education around intensive 2-to-5-day AI programs as employer demand for verifiable AI literacy drives enrollment surges.
37% of business leaders plan to replace human employees with AI by end of 2026, largely by not replacing departing workers — a silent downsizing that labor statistics are not yet capturing.
The Stanford HAI AI Index 2026 is the year's most rigorous benchmark of where AI actually stands. Here are the 12 findings that matter most for businesses, policymakers, and anyone making decisions about AI.
Generative AI is powering a new fraud: fake small business storefronts with AI-generated founder personas charging artisan premiums for factory goods.
More than half of financial services firms are actively running agentic AI, according to Cambridge Judge Business School's 2026 global report co-produced with the BIS, IMF, and WEF.
Anthropic and OpenAI are simultaneously launching $1.5B enterprise AI services ventures backed by Wall Street heavyweights, racing to embed engineers inside mid-sized businesses.
Businesses are deploying AI agents to negotiate and execute contracts autonomously, but no court has definitively settled who is liable when those agents make damaging deals.
Thirty-eight states have enacted AI legislation in 2026, creating a compliance patchwork that is raising costs for national businesses and building its own case for federal preemption.
Venti Technologies won the 2026 FedEx Small Business Grant in Asia Pacific, validating AI-powered autonomous vehicles that cut port logistics costs by 65% versus human-driven operations.
Twenty-five U.S. states have enacted AI laws in 2026, with Colorado's Act taking effect in June — creating the most fragmented AI compliance landscape businesses have ever faced.
An A3 survey finds 86% of manufacturers view AI as the dominant driver of business transformation through 2030. LLM adoption in industrial settings doubled to 35% in a single year.
Anthropic has crossed a $1 trillion secondary market valuation, overtaking OpenAI's $880 billion mark — driven by 233% quarterly revenue growth and Claude Code alone generating $2.5 billion annually.
Anthropic's private shares are trading at roughly $1 trillion on secondary platforms, surpassing OpenAI for the first time — driven by a 233% revenue jump in a single quarter.
With federal AI legislation stalled, states are using antitrust, consumer protection, and false claims law to enforce AI conduct now — creating a fragmented compliance landscape for multi-state businesses.
Vodafone Business and Google Cloud expanded their $1 billion partnership today with two AI-powered tools for European SMBs: an AI Concierge powered by Gemini and a managed cybersecurity service, launching first in Germany and Greece.