Cognition AI raises $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation to expand its software automation platform and Devin AI coding agent for enterprise engineering.
Datacurve's DeepSWE benchmark finds a 33% error rate in standard AI coding tests, with GPT-5.5 leading the new leaderboard at 70% success.
Illinois passes SB 315, the first state law mandating independent AI safety audits for companies with $500M+ revenue to mitigate catastrophic risks.
NVIDIA defines AI factories as the new economic engine for enterprise intelligence, powered by the Blackwell Ultra GB300 NVL72 platform.
SpaceX files for a $2 trillion IPO in June 2026, revealing a massive pivot to AI infrastructure with 76% of capex dedicated to compute and data centers.
IBM and Artificial Analysis launch ITBench-AA, a benchmark for AI agents in IT. Frontier models score below 50% on Kubernetes and SRE tasks.
Verizon Connect scales agentic AI in fleet management to 100,000 users daily using Amazon Bedrock, processing 500 million vehicle data points for 1.2M subscribers.
NVIDIA defines AI factories as the new infrastructure for agentic AI, featuring Blackwell and Vera Rubin platforms for high-efficiency token production.
Pony.ai reports a 395.4% surge in robotaxi revenue for Q1 2026, achieving per-vehicle profitability in key cities and raising its full-year fleet targets.
Stord raises $250M at a $3B valuation to launch Stord Labs and advance physical intelligence in logistics through robotics and agentic AI.
TELUS Digital study finds open-source GLM 4.7 matches proprietary models in AI security, highlighting the safety benefits of reasoning-focused architectures.
Stord raises $250M to fuel agentic AI and robotics at its new Atlanta lab, valuing the logistics startup at $3 billion to rival Amazon's infrastructure.
NVIDIA Vera CPU benchmarks show a 60% performance gain over Grace, featuring 88 Olympus cores and 1.2 TB/s bandwidth for agentic AI workloads.
Tesla ends Model S and Model X production at Fremont to focus on the Optimus robot, targeting 1 million units annually as it pivots to AI and robotics.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he overestimated the speed of the AI job apocalypse as the company focuses on AI tools that assist rather than replace human workers.
