Prompt: Robinhood Wants AI Agents to Trade, Spend on Your Behalf
Robinhood unveiled two AI‑driven products—Agentic Trading and an Agentic Credit Card—allowing retail investors to let autonomous agents execute trades and manage purchases. The tools shift the platform from offering advice to performing transactions on users' behalf. CEO Vlad Tenev framed the launch as the next step in democratizing finance through AI. Robinhood says it will expand the suite with more AI‑powered services for everyday investors.
Anthropic Opus 4.8 Shows the AI Lab Is Paying Attention to Customers
Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H round, lifting its valuation to $965 billion, and simultaneously launched Claude Opus 4.8. The new model adds dynamic workflows, a fast‑mode that is three times cheaper, and enhanced honesty flags for hallucinations. Opus 4.8 is positioned as a...
Neocloud Vendor CoreWeave Builds Up Software Stack
CoreWeave, a leading independent AI infrastructure provider, launched a unified agentic AI suite that lets enterprises deploy and continuously improve autonomous AI agents. The new capabilities build on CoreWeave’s 2025 $1.7 billion acquisition of Weights & Biases, integrating serverless reinforcement learning, inference...
Anthropic Update Underscores Power of AI Flaw Finder Mythos
Anthropic disclosed early results from its Claude Mythos model, an AI system designed to locate software vulnerabilities, through the Project Glasswing initiative. The model, withheld from public release, was shared with about 50 major partners and identified 23,019 flaws across...
Microsoft and EY Link Up to Speed Enterprise AI Adoption
Microsoft and EY announced a joint investment of more than $1 billion over the next five years to accelerate enterprise AI adoption. The partnership will deploy Microsoft engineers and EY consultants to build industry‑specific AI solutions for finance, tax, risk, HR...
Flurry of Deals Reaffirms Sizzling AI Market
In a rapid 24‑hour window, Anthropic, Mistral and Cohere each announced strategic acquisitions, snapping up AI‑focused firms Stainless, Emmi AI and Reliant AI respectively. Anthropic’s purchase of New York‑based Stainless will shutter the latter’s hosted SDK services, removing a key...
Google Aims at Enterprise Cost Efficiency With Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026, a frontier AI model priced at $1.50 per million tokens, positioning it as the cheapest proprietary option for enterprises. The rollout also introduced Gemini Omni, a multimodal model that processes text, images and video, and Gemini Spark,...
Prompt: The More Operational AI Becomes, the Bigger the Security Challenge
Operational AI is evolving from a cybersecurity tool into a major attack surface, prompting firms to secure not just models but the autonomous systems that act across enterprise workflows. OpenAI’s new Daybreak initiative, backed by Cisco, CrowdStrike and Cloudflare, aims...
Anthropic Further Targets Legal With New Connectors
Anthropic expanded its Claude for Legal offering on Tuesday, adding 20 new connectors that link the large‑language model directly to legal SaaS tools such as Thomson Reuters CoCounsel, DocuSign, iManage, Box and EverLaw. The rollout also includes 12 practice‑area plugins...
Startup That Aims to Widen Access to Compute Draws $1.3B
AI‑focused startup Amp announced a $1.3 billion funding round to create a shared compute platform, dubbed an “AI grid,” that will pool excess data‑center capacity for universities, small startups and other under‑funded players. Founded by former Andreessen Horowitz partner Anjney Midha,...
OpenAI Launches Training Spec to Boost Large-Scale AI
OpenAI unveiled Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), an open‑source network specification designed to improve performance and resilience of large‑scale AI training clusters. Developed with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft and Nvidia, MRC spreads data across hundreds of paths, instantly rerouting traffic to...
Nvidia Taps Robotics Ecosystem to Scale Physical AI
Nvidia is expanding its physical AI push by rallying a global robotics ecosystem to bring AI‑driven perception and action to real‑world settings such as factories, hospitals and construction sites. The company leverages its Isaac open‑source robotics platform and Omniverse simulation...
Enterprises Contain AI Agents to Balance Risk, Reward
Enterprises are rapidly deploying AI agents but face heightened security and compliance risks, prompting a shift toward contained experimentation. Axos Bank reduced its AI tester pool from 300 to a focused five‑to‑seven‑person team to enforce governance and prevent data leakage....
AI and Agents Can Supercharge Your Business Model
Carta, the private‑capital platform with nearly $600 million in annual revenue, has unveiled an AI‑powered business playbook that transforms legacy service offerings into scalable AI‑enabled products. Chief product officer Vrushali Paunikar highlighted the strategy of starting with a finite service problem, building...
IBM Pursues Enterprise AI With Agents for Hybrid Cloud, Mainframes
IBM announced a suite of enterprise‑AI offerings at its Think 2026 conference, including the BM Bob development package for mainframes, new capabilities for Watsonx Orchestrate, and the general availability of IBM Sovereign Core. The updates target hybrid and regulated environments, stressing that...