AI News
OpenAI Report Says Chinese Law Enforcement Used ChatGPT to Expose Global Harassment Campaign
The revelation sheds light on coordinated efforts to track and silence regime critics both inside China and abroad.
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Research
AI Models Show Startling Propensity to Use Nuclear Weapons in War Game Simulations
GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemini 3 Flash—chose to deploy nuclear weapons in approximately 95 percent of scenarios.
Partnerships
SiMa.ai and STIGA Team Up to Bring Physical AI to Robotic Lawn Mowers
The partnership seeks to push beyond traditional automation by letting machines “perceive, decide, and act independently in real-world environments,” according to the companies.
SaaS
Salesforce Closes 29,000 Agentforce Deals Since Launch
Agentforce annual recurring revenue has reached approximately $800 million, marking 169% year-over-year growth.
Acquisition
Anthropic Acquires Vercept to Boost Claude’s Computer Interaction Skills
Vercept will wind down its external product operations over the coming weeks as its technology and experts integrate with Anthropic’s development efforts.
Developer's Corner
Atlassian Launches AI Agents in Jira Open Beta, Expands MCP Ecosystem
The move allows organisations to assign tasks to Atlassian Rovo and third-party agents, collaborate with them in comments, and integrate them into structured workflows.
Developer's Corner
New Relic Unveils AI-Driven Observability Innovations Linking Performance to Business Impact
At the centre of the update is Intelligent Workloads, a capability that automates the discovery of complex system dependencies and aligns technical health with business KPIs.
Leadership Moves
Nemetschek Group Appoints Alok Sharma as Managing Director and Vice President, India
Alok will anchor the company’s India growth roadmap, with a focus on deepening enterprise relationships.
Funding
UK Autonomous Driving Startup Wayve Raises $1.2 Bn from NVIDIA, Uber & Microsoft
The fresh capital boosts Wayve’s valuation to $8.6 billion.
Partnerships
IBM & Deepgram Partner to Bring Advanced Voice AI to Enterprise Workflows
Deepgram’s industry-leading speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies will be woven directly into watsonx Orchestrate.
Quantum
Cloudflare Delivers First Complete Post-Quantum SASE Platform
The milestone comes as quantum computing advances threaten to render traditional encryption obsolete.
Agentic AI
AWS Launches Strands Labs to Boost Open-Source Agentic AI Innovation
Strands Labs includes three main experimental projects: Robots, Robots Sim, and AI Functions.