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.
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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.
Funding
SambaNova Systems Unveils Fastest Chip for Agentic AI, Secures $350 Mn, Partners with Intel
SambaNova claims this enables enterprises to run larger models with higher responsiveness and lower operational costs.
Agentic AI
UiPath Unveils New AI-Driven Healthcare Solutions at ViVE 2026
The tools are designed to help both providers and payers streamline critical processes such as medical records summarisation, claim denial handling, and prior authorisation.
Partnerships
Meta & AMD Strike Major AI Infrastructure Deal for 6 GW of Compute
Shipments for the first GPU deployments are slated to begin in the second half of 2026.
AI Developments
Meta Researcher’s AI Agent Goes Rogue, Sparks Fresh Questions Over On-Device Automation
The now-viral post on X has sparked fresh debate over the reliability of autonomous AI agents after her inbox-management experiment spiralled out of control.