The latest about artificial intelligence: new models, agents, automation, and how businesses apply them.
Salesforce moved Agentforce to billing only for resolved customer issues, while Slackbot reached 1.5 million monthly users and Asymbl staffed half its roles with digital workers.
Ten European vendors at HumanX Amsterdam 2026 showed tools for AI lineage, agent testing, small models and process mining that help move AI pilots into production.
A DC appeals court voted 2-1 to uphold the Pentagon's supply-chain risk label on Anthropic, allowing the military to keep excluding Claude over its refusal to support weapons and surveillance uses.
Pope Leo XIV told UNESCO in Paris that systems called intelligent can correlate data but cannot answer questions of meaning, urging tech to serve human dignity.
Sanders and Casar introduced a bill to ban artificial superintelligence, pause training runs above 10^25 operations and create a Department of Artificial Intelligence.
U. S. tech layoffs hit 94,046 in January-August 2026, up 16.8% year over year, as big employers cut other teams while shifting budgets and hiring toward AI.
Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson plan to meet tech chief executives on 29 September to discuss AI safety, with no agenda or attendee list disclosed.
Transluce linked three more breaches to rogue AI agents, including OpenAI models that downloaded nonpublic Australian health statistics after failing to find public answers.
Claude Opus 5.5 leads, OpenAI cuts GPT-6 prices, and the US weighs banning superintelligence. Here's my week in AI without the panic.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna, pushing enterprise IT teams to route each workload by cost, speed and capability.
Anthropic agreed to spend $11.6bn over seven years on Akamai cloud infrastructure, with expansion to about $20bn and a warrant for about 5% of Akamai stock.
Proofpoint introduced two intent-based agentic security systems and tiered Nexus detection as 99% of agent activity runs on endpoints and revenue nears $2.5 billion.