Exa, the API-native search engine built for AI applications, raised $250 million at a $2.2 billion valuation led by a16z. The startup powers search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers.

Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash outperforms its own Pro model on nearly every benchmark, runs four times faster, and costs less than half as much. Six named enterprise customers were already using it in production at launch.

Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director, is joining Anthropic's pre-training team. His mandate: use Claude to accelerate the research that produces the next Claude.

Google's I/O 2026 conference unveiled Gemini Spark, a 24/7 personal AI agent in the cloud, a Search overhaul, and a new $100 Ultra plan. Here's what shipped and what's still months away.

Google and Blackstone are creating a new AI cloud company backed by $5 billion in equity. The venture offers Google's TPU chips as compute-as-a-service, targeting 500 megawatts of capacity in 2027.

Dell announced Deskside Agentic AI at Dell Technologies World 2026, offering local AI agent workstations that run open-weight models on-premises and cut cloud API costs by up to 87% over two years.

ClickUp is running 3,000 AI agents for 1,300 employees , a 3-to-1 ratio that its CEO calls the new normal of enterprise work. Here's how they actually built it, and what's hard about keeping it running.

A federal watchdog tracking America's largest electrical grid found data centers drove wholesale power prices up 75.5% in a year, adding $9.3 billion to consumer bills.

Intercom renamed itself Fin on May 12, 2026, putting its AI customer agent's name on the parent company. Then, three days later, it launched a second AI agent whose only job is managing the first one.