AMD agrees to acquire spatial-intelligence startup World Labs for about $8.2 billion in stock, with co-founder Fei-Fei Li set to become executive vice president and chief scientist reporting to CEO Lisa Su after the deal closes by the end of 2026.
Microsoft launches Frontier Accelerate for Marketplace, a unified partner program that helps eligible B2B solution providers build, publish, monetize and scale offerings, with its Premium tier providing $30,000 in Azure credits plus technical and go-to-market support.
Anthropic opens a plugin submission portal for paid Claude users, allowing developers to publish approved MCP connectors and GitHub-hosted bundles to Claude’s directory while tracking reviews, installs, searches, and listing views.
Pirate Wires reports that former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon used communications firm DEY. Ideas + Influence while publicly warning that Anthropic and OpenAI are gambling with humanity by racing toward self-improving superintelligence, despite telling Bret Baier he had worked with no third parties.
Slack publishes a 10-use-case guide positioning Slackbot as an in-workflow AI adoption tool, from personalized daily briefings to Salesforce actions and cross-tool task completion without leaving Slack.
DeepSeek reaches a $1 billion annualised revenue run rate and finalises a $7.5 billion funding round valuing it at about $74 billion, despite raising API fees by 2.3 to 4.5 times.
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.