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Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it’s taking steps toward simplifying the creation of the underlying infrastructure for new autonomous artificial intelligence agents. With an update to its Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform today, developers can access a new “managed agent harness” feature and

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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Google Cloud's latest generation of tensor processing units, or TPU, and the Alphabet division’s new partnerships. Plus, a small group of unauthorized users has accessed Anthropic's new AI model, Mythos, according to a source and documents reviewed by

The fight for the agent control plane is underway — and it might determine who controls enterprise AI for the next decade. Google LLC came into Google Cloud Next 2026 with a clearer positioning for Gemini: less as a standalone model and more as a connective layer. The emphasis is shifting toward

Sam Altman seized the moment on social media as confused Claude Code users tried to figure out if Anthropic was changing its pricing. Bloomberg/Getty Images Anthropic caused confusion and anger when it appeared to up the pricing for access to its popular Claude Code tool. Anthropic later said that i

DeepSeek is now chasing a valuation above $20 billion as Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group discuss possible investments in the Chinese AI startup. The Information reported that on Wednesday, citing four people who knew about the talks. DeepSeek, which is owned by hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Manag

Anthropic briefly removed Claude Code from its $20 Pro plan Tuesday, then reversed within hours after developer backlash. Head of Growth Amol Avasare called it a 2% test, though pricing pages and support docs changed site-wide. OpenAI kept Codex free. GitHub paused Copilot signups a day earlier.

Amid confusion over if Claude Code was being removed from Anthropic's Pro plan, OpenAI's CEO and employees did some trolling of their rival.

China's AI race is heating up again—and this time, Big Tech may be backing the next contender. Tencent Holding Ltd. (OTC:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/quote/T

OpenAI’s shift to CPC ads in ChatGPT turns it into a performance-driven channel

Google Cloud Next 2026 spotlights agentic AI control planes amid surging revenue and trillion-parameter infrastructure bets. Analysts eye execution over hype as Google battles AWS a

Google's newest TPUs are faster and cheaper than the previous versions. But the company is still embracing Nvidia in its cloud — for now.

Google is also rolling out a new beta that doubles your cell count.

Untenable demand has Anthropic exploring new approaches to rationing its service.

Merck partners with Google Cloud to deploy AI in drug discovery, clinical trials, and manufacturing, signaling a major pharma shift. The post Merck and Google Cloud partner to

Merck partners with Google Cloud to deploy AI in drug discovery, clinical trials, and manufacturing, signaling a major pharma shift. The post Merck and Google Cloud partner to

OpenAI is rolling out workspace agents

Language models like ChatGPT are not neutral. Without our realizing it, they can absorb all kinds of bias—for example, around gender and ethnicity—which then become increasingly embedded in the model. According to AI researcher Oskar van der Wal, we need different kinds of measurements to detect the

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OpenAI launch week continues today with the introduction of workspace agents in ChatGPT. <a class="more-link" href="https://9t

Ulta Beauty is integrating Google's Gemini AI into its website and app, and extending its catalog across Google's platforms giving it a competitive edge in retail beauty.

Google Cloud turns Gemini Enterprise into a single control point for developers and staff as it adds governance, no-code building and partner agents.

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Hackers are abusing Microsoft Teams chats to impersonate IT support, gain remote access, move laterally, and steal company data, Microsoft warns. The post Hackers Impersonate I

Google Meet's Take Notes For Me tool will soon no longer be limited to your virtual meetings.

OpenAI has released a small, free model that strips names, addresses, passwords, and account numbers out of any text, right on your laptop, before you paste it into an AI chatbot.

Human risk management platform KnowBe4 has selected Flywire as its preferred partner for global accounts receivable (AR) and international payments. KnowBe4, which provides a security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, serves more than 70,000 organizations around the world and c

Google adds App Consent Insights to Google Ads, giving advertisers cl

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Google's AI meeting notetaker is no longer limited to Google Meets - Gemini can also generate summaries and transcripts of in-person meetings now, as well as meetings on Zoom and Microsoft Teams, as first reported by 9to5Google. Support for in-person meetings was previously limited to alpha users an

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Jesse Davies, an Australian AI consultant and founder of Agentic Labs, was caught unawares when their Google Cloud bill ballooned to more than 2,500 times their initial budget after an unknown API key registered more than 60,000 requests while they were asleep.

PepsiCo Inc (NASDAQ: PEP ) shares rose 0.53% on Wednesday after the <a href="https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/26

DeekSeek could soon count two of China’s biggest tech companies among its investors. Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup as it begins its first round of fundraising, The Information reported Wednesday (April 22), citing four sources with

ServiceNow’s (NOW) stock has dropped about 32% this year, but Morgan Stanley says the fundamentals tell a different story. Demand remains intact, and the company’s AI strategy is starting to show up in real revenue. The debate now is whether ServiceNow can translate AI adoption, backlog strength, ..

Google Workspace Intelligence can now improve all generative AI tasks across Workspace apps by grounding them in customers’ data. The post Google Workspace Intellig

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In April 2025, a student opened fire on the campus of Florida State University, killing two and wounding seven. Investigators have since discovered that the suspect, 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, conducted extremely disturbing conversations with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, repeatedly asking about Oklahoma City b

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL ) shares are up during Wednesday’s session as the company expanded its <a href="https://www

CoreWeave’s shares are up 55% this month, but that rally tells just part of the story about the AI cloud provider. The company has tapped a range of sources for much-needed capital, giving it a commanding role in the AI build-out. CoreWeave’s big fundraising haul—totaling nearly $16 b

The multi-year deal will deploy AI agents across Merck's drug research, manufacturing, commercial, and corporate operations

US President Donald Trump is a longtime climate denier and oil industry ally, who sums up his own energy policy as "drill, baby, drill." Yet he is doing more than almost anyone to speed up the global shift from fossil fuels to clean energy and electric vehicles (EVs).

"If that bot were a person they’d be charged with a principal in first degree murder." The post Florida Opens Criminal Probe Into ChatGPT’s Role in School Shooting appeared

ChatGPT Images 2 can generate magazine layouts that look impressively real, but without editability or workflow integration, they’re little more than surface-level illusions of something useful.

ServiceNow (NOW) stock has dropped 34% in 2026 ahead of Q1 earnings. Analysts project $3.75B revenue and eye Now Assist AI growth as key metric. The post ServiceNow (NOW) Stock: Q1

NVIDIA (NVDA) stock sees slight dip amid expanded Google Cloud partnership featuring Blackwell GPUs and AI infrastructure for enterprise agentic systems. The post NVIDIA (NVDA

Vodafone Group PLC (NASDAQ: VOD ) shares rose on Wednesday after the company expanded its AI and cybersecurity offerings for small bu

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