Asana has acquired StackAI, a startup that offers a no-code platform for building AI agents, according to TechCrunch. Asana said it plans to incorporate StackAI into its broader suite of AI workflow tools, extending its product strategy around automating work and building agent-driven enterprise software.
Anthropic has released Opus 4.8, a new version of its Opus model, along with a tool called Dynamic Workflows, according to TechCrunch. The company says Dynamic Workflows is designed to coordinate swarms of subagents, positioning the release as both a model update and an orchestration feature for more complex agentic tasks.
Illinois lawmakers have passed an AI safety bill that would require companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have independent third parties verify compliance with safety standards. Governor JB Pritzker has said he will sign the measure, which Wired described as one of the strongest state-level AI safety laws in the US.
Snowflake has signed a five-year agreement worth $6 billion with Amazon Web Services to secure chips for AI workloads, according to TechCrunch. The reported deal points to a major long-term compute procurement commitment between a large data platform company and a leading cloud provider.
A SpaceX IPO filing disclosed that Anthropic is paying about $1.25 billion per month, or roughly $15 billion per year, to access SpaceX data center and GPU capacity, according to Wired. The filing provides primary-source documentation for a compute supply arrangement that makes SpaceX a major infrastructure supplier to a leading AI model developer.
Google announced Gemini Spark at its I/O 2026 developer conference as a new always-on agentic personal assistant. The product is built on Gemini models and an agentic framework from Google Antigravity, with Gmail integration highlighted as part of the launch.
Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI co-founder and prominent AI researcher, has joined Anthropic's pre-training team, according to TechCrunch. Anthropic said the group handles the large-scale training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, making it a central and compute-intensive part of frontier model development.
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, a New York-based startup that automates the creation and maintenance of software development kits for APIs, according to TechCrunch. Stainless had built tooling used by companies including OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare. The deal points to Anthropic expanding its control over developer tooling around API-based software adoption.
A California jury unanimously found against Elon Musk in his lawsuit over alleged mistreatment by his OpenAI co-founders, concluding that the claims were filed too late. The verdict resolves a high-profile legal dispute involving Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI.
OpenAI has launched a personal finance experience inside ChatGPT that lets users connect bank accounts, according to TechCrunch. The feature provides a dashboard showing portfolio performance, spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments, expanding ChatGPT into consumer financial management use cases.
OpenAI said hackers stole some data in a code security incident, but described the impact as limited to employee devices. The company said the breach did not affect user data, production systems, or its intellectual property.
Anthropic is rolling out a new offering aimed at small business owners, according to TechCrunch. The move expands the company's go-to-market focus beyond large enterprises and suggests it is targeting a much broader base of everyday commercial users.
Amazon has launched Alexa for Shopping, an AI shopping assistant integrated into the search bar across mobile, desktop, and Echo Show devices. The assistant, powered by Alexa+, supports voice and touch interactions, offers personalized recommendations, and aims to automate shopping tasks across Amazon and other online retailers.
Google has introduced Googlebook, a new line of laptops it says was designed from the ground up around Gemini. According to the announcement, the devices are meant to provide more personal and proactive AI assistance and are slated to launch in the fall.
OpenAI has introduced a new "Trusted Contact" safeguard for ChatGPT aimed at situations where a conversation may indicate possible self-harm, according to TechCrunch. The feature is part of the company's broader effort to expand user protections in sensitive mental-health-related interactions.
Braintrust said attackers compromised one of its Amazon Web Services environments and notified customers to rotate sensitive API keys. The company, which provides tooling for teams building AI software, disclosed the incident as a security event that could affect customer credentials.
Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it overpromised the timing of AI features for Siri, according to TechCrunch. The reported settlement centers on delays in delivering the anticipated Siri capabilities and marks a legal and reputational development around Apple's AI product rollout.
TechCrunch reports that SAP plans to acquire German AI startup Prior Labs for $1.16 billion, a major bet on a young domestic AI lab. The report also says SAP will limit supported customer agent tooling to a select group that includes Nvidia's NemoClaw, signaling a more curated approach to enterprise agent deployment.
OpenAI has released GPT-5.5 Instant and made it the new default model for ChatGPT, according to TechCrunch. The company says the model keeps the low latency of its predecessor while reducing hallucinations in sensitive domains including law, medicine, and finance.
Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup focused on humanoid robotics, according to TechCrunch. The deal is described as part of Meta's effort to strengthen the AI models and broader technical stack it is building for robots.
