As a product VP at Google Cloud, Michael Gerstenhaber works mostly on Vertex AI, the company’s unified platform for deploying enterprise AI. It gives him…
Author: Russell Brandom
Anthropic launches new push for enterprise agents with plug-ins for finance, engineering, and design |
On Tuesday, Anthropic unveiled its new enterprise agents program, its most aggressive push yet to integrate agentic AI into everyday workplaces. In an official briefing,…
Great news for xAI: Grok is now pretty good at answering questions about Baldur’s Gate |
10:26 AM PST · February 20, 2026 Different AI labs have different priorities. OpenAI has traditionally focused on consumer users, for instance, while its rival…
Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6 |
In Brief Posted: 10:00 AM PST · February 17, 2026 Anthropic has released a new version of its midsized Sonnet model, keeping pace with the…
Running AI models is turning into a memory game |
8:44 AM PST · February 17, 2026 When we talk about the cost of AI infrastructure, the focus is usually on Nvidia and GPUs —…
Meridian raises $17 million to remake the agentic spreadsheet |
6:00 AM PST · February 11, 2026 The fight to tame spreadsheets with AI isn’t over yet. A new company called Meridian has emerged from…
Okay, now exactly half of xAI's founding team has left the company |
5:50 PM PST · February 10, 2026 Monday night, xAI co-founder Yuhuai (Tony) Wu announced he was leaving the company. “It’s time for my next…
Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all |
In Brief Posted: 12:26 PM PST · February 6, 2026 Last month, I wrote about Mercor’s new benchmark measuring AI agents’ capabilities on professional tasks…
Fundamental raises $255 million Series A with a new take on big data analysis |
7:00 AM PST · February 5, 2026 An AI lab called Fundamental emerged from stealth on Thursday, offering a new foundation model to solve an…
Zuckerberg teases agentic commerce tools and major AI rollout in 2026 |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta users will start to see new AI models and products from the company in a matter of months. “In 2025, we…