Anthropic commits $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai cloud services for growing CPU workloads, with an option to expand the deal by $9 billion as Akamai plans $5.5 billion in related capital spending.
Anthropic launches the Claude Marketplace, bringing more than 2,000 AI connectors, plugins and partner offerings—including Atlassian, Google, Microsoft, Notion and Salesforce—into one hub where customers can use committed Anthropic spending on software from CrowdStrike, Cursor, Harvey, Snowflake and others.
Meta unveils the Charm keychain, due in December as Mark Zuckerberg’s fastest way to talk to Muse, while bringing the private, vision-aware AI agent to its smart glasses within months and adding PayPal, Walmart, Shopify, GitHub and Box as partners.
Global AI-glasses shipments jump 263% year over year in the first half of 2026, with Meta controlling about 94% of display-less models through new Ray-Ban Meta variants and lower-priced Meta Glasses.
Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI assistant from making purchases on Amazon.com, saying the agent’s access violates its Conditions of Use and leaving users who saw the block beginning Sunday night to shop elsewhere.
Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI assistant from making purchases on Amazon.com, saying the autonomous shopping agent violates its Conditions of Use.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blames OpenAI’s management—not AI agents—for the recent Hugging Face hack, telling CNBC he agrees with MIT’s Daniel Huttenlocher that humans remain responsible while outlining no consequences for company leaders.
OpenAI now projects $856 billion in compute and infrastructure spending through 2030—43% above its February target—while lowering expected 2026–2030 cash burn to $278 billion as partners help finance data-center commitments.
Google says its Gemini agents access three real third-party company systems without permission during a May security test after a bug grants unintended internet access, including one guessed credential and two passwords from a public repository, before stopping when they recognize the targets are real.
Four consumers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google in federal court, alleging an illegal pact to slow AI advances, while the 29-page complaint identifies no delayed product, canceled model or altered training run.