The Pentagon launches an AI pilot using the Air Force's ACME system to automate original classification decisions within six months, per a Feinberg memo.
A bipartisan Senate bill would extend Pentagon AI oversight to fielded commercial frontier models. Key question: audit data or only reporting?
Sierra and Meta's Personal Agent Protocol would let AI agents identify themselves, prove customer authorization and stay within set permissions at checkout.
Broadcom OpenAI chip financing tops $50 billion as Apollo and Blackstone lend, making private credit the binding constraint on AI scaling.
SoftBank seeks up to $100 billion from Gulf investors for its SoftBank Gulf AI fund, an acquisition vehicle that would retool companies with AI.
The Automation Anywhere Boost.ai acquisition adds voice and chat AI to its agentic automation platform, with closing set for Q4 2026.
LS Power closed a $6 billion energy fund as AI data center power demand, not chip supply, becomes the binding constraint on new AI capacity.
TypeSafe AI raised $870M at a $7.5B valuation led by a16z. We test whether Jev's usage claims hold up against revenue and contract evidence.
VentureBeat's August survey finds 56% of enterprises allow autonomous AI agents to change production on automated checks alone, down from 75% in July.
OpenRouter data shows OpenAI's share of enterprise AI spending among dual-vendor businesses jumped from under 25% to nearly 50% in September 2026.
Anthropic is hiring a Political Programs lead at $295K to $345K to build its presidential engagement program for 2028, ahead of a possible $2T IPO.
GlobalFoundries will build silicon interposers for TSMC's CoWoS packaging in New York under a five-year, $2 billion deal, with volume output due in 2028.
FICO survey: 85.1% say AI met ROI goals, but only 5.2% are very confident explaining its decisions. Explaining AI decisions is the enterprise gap.
AI business roundup: Oracle and Google nuclear deals, Anthropic pricing cuts, DeepSeek's $12B raise and new agent-liability rules in one week.
AI funding tracker: six deals this period, led by DeepSeek's $12B round from Tencent and CATL, plus Moonshot AI, River AI, Nous and Firmus Grid.
